The present study was designed to address the question of whether justice and vengeance motives can be differentiated and clearly delineated within the judicial process. The study used a multi-stage approach in the development of the Justice-Vengeance Scale. Exploratory factor analysis (102 males, 118 females) and confirmatory factor analysis (123 males, 200 females) yielded a four-factor multi...

Using college student samples, two studies were conducted to validate the Chinese version of the Domain-Specific Risk-Taking (DOSPERT) Scale. The results replicated important findings reported by Weber et al. (2002) in the Chinese culture. Risk-taking and risk perception were domain-specific, whereas perceived-risk attitudes were relatively stable across domains, supporting the risk-return mode...

The purpose of this study is to explore the psychometric quality of a self-evaluation instrument based on Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences (1991; 1993; 1995). Self-evaluated intelligence is closely related to a person’s selfconcept and can reflect both general and academic components of it. Our data includes Finnish students from five different universities (N=256). The questionnaire ...

The structure of the short form Bem Sex Role Inventory (Bem, 1981) was examined in two UK samples of 214 women and 166 men, and 215 women and 166 men, respectively, aged 17–22 years. A confirmatory factor analysis of the masculinity and femininity items for the first sample produced a poor fit. An exploratory factor analysis of the data from this sample produced a 3 factor solution which, toget...

The evolution of mobile network technologies and smartphones has provided mobile consumers with unprecedented access to Internet and value-added services while on the move. Privacy issues in such context become critically important because vendors may access a large volume of personal information. Although several pioneering studies have examined general privacy risks, few systematic attempts h...

objective: the aim of this study is to explore the confirmatory factor analysis results of the persian adaptation of abbreviated math anxiety scale (amas), proposed by hopko, mahadevan, bare & hunt. method: the validity and reliability assessments of the scale were performed on 298 college students chosen randomly from tabriz university in iran. the confirmatory factor analysis (cfa) was carrie...

Methods The empirical material is provided by the Unit of Patient-Perceived Quality through a recently published telephone survey. The responses were clustered in categories through an exploratory factor analysis and assessed for construct validity (Cronbach’s alpha). The five hypotheses were analysed further by the use of a two-step structural equation modeling approach as prescribed by Anders...