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Factors Influencing Research Competency of Lecturers in Private Universities The structural equation model was applied in this research to analyze the data.

The objectives of this research were to study factors influencing research competency of lecturers in private universities as well as to develop and validate the consistency of empirical data with the causal relationship model of research competency of lecturers in private universities. The model consisted of three latent variables, namely, research competency, institutional support for research work, and researchership; and twelve observed variables measuring those three latent variables. The sample consisted of one hundred and twenty lecturers in private universities. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, Pearsonûs product moment correlation coefficient, confirmatory factor analysis, and linear structural equation model analysis.

Research result indicated that the factor which had direct effect to research competency of lecturers in private universities was researchership and the factor which gave indirect effect to research competency of lecturers in private universities was institutional support through researchership. The adjusted model was consistent with the empirical data. Model validation of a good fitted model provided χ2 = 28.53, df = 39, p = 0.89, χ2 /df = 0.73, GFI = 0.953, AGFI = 0.904, RMR = 0.056, and LSR = 2.252. The variables in the model accounted for 58.40 percent of the total variance of research competency.