This study examined the factor structure of a scale based on the four-dimensional gender identity model (Egan and Perry, 2001) in 726 Chinese elementary school students. Exploratory factor analyses suggested a three-factor model, two of which corresponded to "Felt Pressure" and "Intergroup Bias" in the original model. The third factor "Gender Compatibility" appeared to be a combination of "Gend...

The study carried out an investigation on electronic payment system in Nigeria focusing on the implementation and the constraints antagonizing it with the aim to come up with solutions to the constraints so identified. The ostensible low level of contentment with e-payment system in Nigeria motivated this study. Banks, contractors and government agencies formed the sampling population with tota...

Danes are unrivalled in satisfaction with life. The University of Leicester recently published the World Map of Happiness (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/ hi/pdfs/28_07_06_happiness_map.pdf) with Denmark as number one. For more than 30 years this country with five million inhabitants has ranked first in Eurobarometer surveys (europa.eu.int/comm/ public_opinion/index_en.htm). More than two t...

The Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS) is a differential GPS navigation system being developed to support aircraft precision approach and landing with guaranteed accuracy, integrity, continuity and availability. While the system promises to support Category I operations, significant technical challenges are encountered in supporting Category II and III operations. The primary concern has bee...

The understanding of the complexities human well-being (HWB) within ecosystem service (ES) context is fundamental to development management plans sustain flow services (ESs) for HWB. However, research on HWB in still underrepresented Africa’s coast. Primary data were collected from 794 household heads six communities Ghana’s eastern coastal zone. A sequential logistics regression model was used...

Contentment is a life of happiness and satisfaction with what one has. It is, in Igbo parlance, against "Ita abacha na aro akpu anya".[1] This the greatest virtues that majority people lack. Nigeria under Gen. Obasanjo Alhaji Atiku Abubakar according to Deputy National Publicity Secretary APC, Mr. Yekini Nabena spent $16 billion on power sector during their tenor as president vice yet there not...

This article opens by noting that positive emotions do not fit existing models of emotions. Consequently, a new model is advanced to describe the form and function of a subset of positive emotions, including joy, interest, contentment, and love. This new model posits that these positive emotions serve to broaden an individual's momentary thought-action repertoire, which in turn has the effect o...

Major Baird's description of his experience with cataract in Gronda* seems to suggest that nothing more than a clear pupil is required in a cataract operation, and that patients are contented with their vision after operation by Colonel Smith's method with an iridectomy. I do not think that this contentment is proved by such large numbers coming for operation, for it appears that a large number...

WCI (Workers' Compensation Insurance) is a large-scale social security programme. In contrast to health insurance, this type of insurance covers all medical expenses, regardless how much the covered individual provides. The study's key objectives are increase policy understanding and satisfaction with Employee State Insurance Corporation (ESIC). benefits Employees' (ESIS) were investigated as p...