Big Things Have Small Beginnings: An Assortment of “Minor” Methodological Misunderstandings

By Jose M. Cortina. 2002

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Education, Management Science and Operations Research

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A review of the methodological misconceptions and guidelines related to the application of structural equation modeling: A Malaysian scenario (2017, background): “However, error terms can be allowed to correlate when the errors are attached to indicators that represent the same variable at different time points or when some indicators are components of other indicators (Cortina, 2002; Green et al., 2016).”
Examining the Relation Between Ethical Focus and Financial Performance in Family Firms: An Exploratory Study (2010, background): “Respecification of the model is a key part of structural equation modeling (Kline, 2005), but continuous respecification or respecification of model parameters that alter the theory is strongly discouraged without replication (Cortina, 2002).”
Organizational commitment, turnover intentions and the influence of cultural values. (2003, background): “Therefore, while compromising effect size, which are easier to obtain in extreme groups experimental designs, field studies offer more generalizability and realism (Cortina, 2002) and therefore the significant interactions reported in this study can be considered meaningful and important.”
Initial psychometric properties of the experiences questionnaire: validation of a self-report measure of decentering. (2007, background): “However, methodologists have also critiqued the use of atheoretical, statistically determined correlated measurement error (Cortina, 2002).”
Best-Practice Recommendations for Defining, Identifying, and Handling Outliers (2013, background): “There is an additional important consideration regarding the treatment of outliers, which was described by Cortina (2002) as follows: Caution also must be used because, in most cases, deletion [of outliers] helps us to support our hypotheses.”
The personal costs of citizenship behavior: the relationship between individual initiative and role overload, job stress, and work-family conflict. (2005, methodology): “Also, on the basis of the recommendation of Cortina (2002), a scree test was conducted.”
Dealing with endogeneity bias: The generalized method of moments (GMM) for panel data (2018, background): “This is not discussed further here, and we recommend readers to consult recent methodological advances in the area (e.g., Cortina, 2002; Lance, 2011; Lance et al., 2006).”