Analysis of the demographic data revealed 109 male professors and 61 female professors completed the survey; two professors did not indicate their gender. The rank was represented by 13 instructors, 20 assistant professors, 38 associate professors, 49 full professors, and 52 other faculty types. Among the respondents, there were 16 part-time and 155 full-time faculty, and 100 men and 53 women on full-time status. There were 61 from HBCU and 111 from AACSB. Females and males from AACSB represented 40 and 69 respectively, while HBCU females and males were 21 and 40 respectively. The average part-time and full-time experience was 4.57 years and 15.2 years respectively, with one person teaching for 45 years. There were 116 born in the United States, as opposed to 50 born elsewhere. Of those responding, 35 were from liberal arts colleges, 97 from comprehensive universities, and 39 were from research institutions. The contract status for males and females combined was 43 non-tenure track (which comprised 25.4% of the respondents), 49 tenure track (29%), and 77 were tenured (45.6%). And, finally, 110 White, 26 Black, 17 Hispanic, 10 Asian and 4 other races of faculty members responded. The descriptive data collected from the survey responses is presented in Tables la, 1b, 1c, 1d, le, 1f, 1g, 1h and 11. Guadagnoli and Velicer (1988) dealt directly with the relationship of sample size to the stability of component patterns. The authors used a Monte Carlo procedure to vary sample size, number of variables, number of components, and component saturation in order to examine systematically the condition under which a sample component pattern becomes stable relative to the population. They determined that factor loadings of .60 or higher with at least four variable loadings per factor permit stability of the factor pattern regardless of sample size. Furthermore, using SPSS 15.0 for this study, the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) measure of sampling adequacy was .896, far exceeding the most conservative cutoff of .60. KMO and Bartlett's Test We were unable to reject Hypothesis 1: There is no significant difference in perceptions of We rejected Hypothesis 3: There is a significant difference in perceptions of encounters with disrespectful student behavior as measured by the MES between professors with employment status as full-time and part-time. The means for the 15 part-time and the 142 full-time employees were -.86 and .10 respectively. The significant difference was p= .003. ANOVA results are shown in Table 5. A full-time faculty member is more likely than a part-time faculty member to perceive an encounter with an unresponsive student as disrespectful. Actual Scale Items on the MES Measuring Perceptions of Encounters with Disrespectful Students APPENDIX A
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