This study conceptualizes and tests a theoretical framework that investigates customers’ intention to engage in permission-based mobile marketing communications with a firm in the hospitality sector and examines the effects of gender. The model proposes that perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and perceived trust affect attitude toward advertising, which in turn, together with perceived...

Social anxiety is a common psychological disorder that often emerges during adolescence and is associated with significant impairment. Efforts to prevent social anxiety disorder require sound assessment measures for identifying anxious youth, especially those from minority backgrounds. We examined the factorial invariance and latent mean differences of the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (...

The aim of this study was to validate the French version Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ) and assess its measurement invariance across gender, age groups, countries, student versus career counseling samples. We also examined sensitivity instrument discriminate a population from general sample. Third, we studied relationship between decision-making difficulties, self-effi...

The present study assessed potential gender differences between the two prevailing PTSD models - the emotional numbing (King, Leskin, King, & Weathers, 1998) and dysphoria (Simms, Watson, & Doebbelling, 2002) models - in order to establish whether one model is superior with regard to its cross-gender generalizability. The sample included 188 female and 690 male trauma-exposed United States Vete...

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Forgiveness is an issue that recently has received increasing attention in the psychological literature, yet little empirical research has been conducted on this topic. This article presents initial support and validation of an inventory based upon Gordon and Baucom’s (1998) three-stage synthesized model of forgiveness in marital relationships. This model places forgiveness in the framework of ...