Sentence examples for marker items from inspiring English sources

Next, we included the marker items as additional latent variables in our PLS analysis model and compared the results between the original research model (without the marker variables) and the common method bias test model (with marker variables).

We performed the marker variable method (Rönkkö and Ylitalo 2011) with two marker items (two items for Openness, which the ANCOVA in Table 4 shows to be unrelated to the dependent variables) taken from our empirical data set; these items were not included in our research model and lack an explicit theoretical influence on the constructs in our research model.

Following Rönkkö and Ylitalo's (2011) method, we found relatively low correlations between the marker items and study items (the mean values of the correlation coefficients were.046 and.061) and determined that these low correlations must have been caused by the method.

Item enumeration, item assignment, and marker items for the two-factor model and the nine-factor model are according to Schulz, Schlotz, and Becker [ 17]. h2 = explained variance by the respective factor or item communalities, i.e. percentage of item variance explained by the latent factor.

At present the item P21x ("belief in (my) Guardian Angel"), which was a factor on its own, should be regarded just as a marker item.

As the item P21x ("Guardian angel") made up a factor on its own – even in a tentative 5-factor solution -, we decided to use it as a marker item until the construct is revised for this topic.

One item (F3.6 "The "true being" ("inner core") can not be affected by illness") was omitted because of a weak reliability (0.2997) and – even more important – it points to a distinct "field of meaning" that would need more items in the questionnaire, and thus will be used as marker item until the construct will be revised for this topic.

The item "Belief in (my) Guardian Angel" which was used only as a preliminary marker item correlated moderately with ExP (r = 0.301) and NoP (r = 0.290), and with the SpREUK scales "Search for meaningful support" (r = 0.327) and "Support of the Internality through SpR" (r = 0.361), but somewhat higher with "Trust in external Guidance" (r = 0.421).

The physicians' opinion about the significance of guidelines for the treatment of patients was clearly reflected by the attitude towards this central marker-item.

The small markers in the plot show the ground truth (hollow for training data and filled for the tests), while the large markers point out the items for which the SVM makes wrong predictions.

The interview includes risk markers (32 items) which reflect past and current correlates of violence as well as situational factors that might aggravate or mitigate risk and are deemed to be predictors of recidivism, violence and the inability to respond to therapeutic intervention.