evaluation of communication abilities in the elderly is crucial for activities which will be performed to improve their quality of life. a valid and reliable questionnaire is needed for assessing communication abilities. we aimed to translate and validate the speech, spatial, and qualities of hearing scale (ssq) in iran. the forward-backward procedure was applied to translate the questionnaire ...

The main purpose of this study was to develop an instrument to measure the attitudes of elementary students towards smart board (SB) use in education. A sequential exploratory mixed method was used. So the study started with a qualitative approach to establish the content and face validity of the scale, followed by a quantitative approach to test the construct validity and reliability of the sc...

The purpose of this study is to develop a Chinese version of Empathy Quotient (Baron-Cohen, 2004). The original version of Empathy Quotient (EQ) is a self-report questionnaire including cognitive and affective aspects of empathy. We translated the Empathy Quotient into Chinese and asked 360 subjects to fill up the questionnaire. The results of confirmatory factor analyses showed that the factor...

Electronic aggression, or cyberbullying, is a relatively new phenomenon. As such, consistency in how the construct is defined and operationalized has not yet been achieved, inhibiting a thorough understanding of the construct and how it relates to developmental outcomes. In a series of two studies, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses (EFAs and CFAs respectively) were used to examine wh...

Resurgence in agricultural-based sectors in Malaysia recently has prompted this study to explore the entrepreneurial orientation (EO) patterns as an indicator to explain Malaysian agro-based enterprises. The study is based on 615 observations of Bumiputera small and medium agro-based enterprises (BSMAEs) in three regional growth corridors (RGCs) throughout the Peninsular. Item analysis were don...

This study examines the relationship between manifest conflict and marketing performance via the international joint venture (IJV) market entry mode in Thailand. The primary data for the study were collected from a self-administered mail survey of 1,047 Thai-Foreign IJVs in Thailand. The criteria for inclusion in the sample was that no joint venture partner could have less than 20 percent equit...

Poor Information Quality (IQ) has a significant impact on the general performance of an organization. Investments in IT have had a great impact on the banking industry in recent years, producing a large increase in the volume of information; these investments, however, have not ensured a corresponding return in terms of the quality of information produced. The aim of the present study is to val...