Health-related studies of spirituality are threatened by the lack of conceptual distinctions between religion and spirituality, the use of small, nongeneralizable samples, and by measurement error in many instruments that unreliably and invalidly capture this domain. The authors review the construct and validity evidence for the Spirituality Index of Well-Being (SIWB), an instrument designed to...

Tourism, including sports tourism, is an important driver of social and economic development. Sports tourism events, small-scale sporting events in particular, are a powerful resource for promoting the host city, as viable way developing sustainable local community. This study aims to analyse impact functional quality, outcome satisfaction, perceived value on intentions recommend city among par...

This study explores the impacts of computer self-efficacy, computer use, and group orientation on college students’ attitudes towards and decisions to pursue information technology careers. Empirical studies have yet to address this specific topic. The study uses a survey method to gather information from a group of randomly selected undergraduate business college students. Confirmatory factor ...

Article history: Received October 2, 2012 Received in Revised Format March 12, 2013 Accepted March 14, 2013 Available online March 15 2013 Leagile supply chain management has emerged as a proactive approach for improving business value of companies. The companies that face volatile and unpredictable market demand of their products must pioneer in leagile supply chain strategy for competition an...

BACKGROUND Beliefs about substance use disorder (SUD) shape how patients, treatment professionals and the general public view addiction and its treatment. A U.S. developed scale exists to assess such beliefs, but it has never been tested in Norway nor normed on any general population sample. METHODS The Short Understanding of Substance Abuse Scale (SUSS) was translated from English to Norwegi...

This siudy reviews the literature surrounding leader-member exchange (LMX), proposes and tests antecedents of LMX. The intent is to clarify antecedents of LMX. The study uses a hospitality sample, as LMX is related to a wide range of constructs highly relevant for hospitality management. Following confirmatory factor analysis, the antecedents are tested using regression analysis, followed by pa...

In Year One of the Modelfest project, several laboratories collaborated to collect threshold data of human observers on 45 pattern stimuli. In this preliminary study, we used a principal component analysis (PCA) and a confirmatory factor analysis on the variations among observers to explore the underlying visual mechanisms for detecting Modelfest Stimuli. This analysis is based on the assumptio...

The Interpersonal Support Evaluation List-12 (ISEL-12; Cohen, Mermelstein, Kamarck, & Hoberman, 1985) is broadly employed as a short-form measure of the traditional ISEL, which measures functional (i.e., perceived) social support. The ISEL-12 can be scored by summing the items to create an overall social support score; three subscale scores representing appraisal, belonging, and tangible social...

Principal components analysis and factor analysis are common methods used to analyze groups of variables for the purpose of reducing them into subsets represented by latent constructs (Bartholomew, 1984; Grimm & Yarnold, 1995). Even though PCA shares some important characteristics with factor analytic methods such as exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), the ...

This paper explicitly examines the relationship that exists between Total Quality Management (TQM) and Environmentally Responsible Manufacturing (ERM) systems. It has been presumed in numerous past studies that such a relationship does exist. It has been argued that those firms that have successfuhy implemented a TQM system are better positioned to successfully implement an ERM system. This rel...