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Table 4 Assessment of Construct Validity: Correlation of derived ACT factors by increasing levels of instrumental research utilization (IRU)

From: Development and assessment of the Alberta Context Tool

  

Mean value (or relative â–½ %) of ACT factors by increasing levels of instrumental research utilization

 
 

Bivariate correlation with IRU*

1

2

3

4

5

Total†

P-value for means differences

Leadership

0.090* 1/0.098** 2

3.37 (-4.5)

3.45 (-2.3)

3.51 (-0.6)

3.51 (-0.6)

3.68 (4.2)

3.53

0.0693 (0.0894)

Culture

0.145**/0.148**

3.68 (-3.9)

3.75 (-2.1)

3.80 (-0.8)

3.83 (0.0)

3.96 (3.4)

3.83

0.002 (0.002)**

Evaluation

0.130**/0.145**

2.64 (-11.4)

2.85 (-4.4)

3.06 (2.7)

2.96 (-0.7)

3.15 (5.7)

2.98

0.000 (0.000) **

Social capital

0.120**/0.119**

3.82 (-2.1)

3.83 (-1.8)

3.89 (-0.3)

3.89 (-0.3)

4.02 (3.1)

3.90

0.009 (0.027) **

Formal Interactions

0.154**/0.156**

1.49 (-19.0)

1.65 (-10.3)

1.91 (3.8)

1.79 (-2.7)

2.14 (16.3)

1.84

0.000 (0.000) **

Informal Interactions

(Type 1- Non-Direct Care Providers)

0.183**/0.208**

0.56 (-48.6)

0.75 (-31.2)

1.24 (13.8)

1.10 (0.9)

1.31 (20.2)

1.09

0.000 (0.000) **

Informal Interactions

(Type 2- Direct Care Providers)

0.196**/0.220**

3.69 (-12.4)

4.04 (-4.0)

4.22 (0.2)

4.24 (0.7)

4.45 (5.7)

4.21

0.000 (0.000) **

Structural and Electronic Resources

(Type 1-Formal Resources)

0.242**/0.240**

2.32 (-15.3)

2.37 (-13.5)

2.76 (0.7)

2.77 (1.1)

3.13 (14.2)

2.74

0.000 (0.000) **

Structural and Electronic Resources

(Type 2- Traditional Resources)

0.129**/0.137**

0.51 (-29.2)

0.69 (-4.2)

0.69 (-4.2)

0.73 (1.4)

0.89 (23.6)

0.72

0.003 (0.006) **

Structural and Electronic Resources

(Type 3- Electronic Resources)

0.177**/0.186**

1.11 (-18.4)

1.00 (-26.5)

1.42 (4.4)

1.42 (4.4)

1.56 (14.7)

1.36

0.000 (0.000) **

Organizational Slack-Human resources

0.023/0.037

2.76 (-5.5)

2.84 (-2.7)

2.94 (0.7)

3.02 (3.4)

2.85 (-2.4)

2.92

0.251 (0.289)

Organizational Slack-Space

0.149**/0.158**

2.63 (-10.5)

2.84 (-3.4)

2.91 (-1.0)

2.95 (0.3)

3.17 (7.8)

2.94

0.000 (0.001) **

Organizational Slack-Time

0.137**/0.156**

2.68 (-8.8)

2.90 (-1.4)

2.91 (-1.0)

2.97 (1.0)

3.04 (3.4)

2.94

0.000 (0.001) **

  1. * Indicate significance at 0.05 levels.
  2. ** Indicate significance at 0.01 levels.
  3. ▽ %: Is the % difference with respect to the total sample average†
  4. 1 Spearman's rank correlation coefficients
  5. 2 Pearson's correlation coefficients
  6. 3 P-value for ANOVA
  7. 4 P-value for Kruskal-Wallis test