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...

introduction the chemical characteristic of groundwater as a major source of water supply for human life is an important factor in determining the usage of it for agriculture, industry and drinking. useful techniques and different methods of studying the chemical composition of groundwater such as correlation coefficient, descriptive statistics, factor analysis and cluster analysis provide an u...

Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were used to investigate the factor structure of coping in mothers with high levels of life stress. In Study 1, EFA of the Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced (C. S. Carver, M. F. Scheier, & J. K. Weintraub, 1989) in a sample of mothers of full-term or very low birth weight 2-year-old children yielded 7 reliable cop...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The mechanism behind aggressive development of cachexia in patients suffering from pancreatic cancer is not well understood. In this study, we investigated which factors are associated with the cachectic status of the patients and evaluated cachexia-promoting capacity of cancer and inflammatory cells. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN DNA microarray analysis and quantitative reverse ...

Objective The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties Casey-Fink Graduate Nurse Experience Survey (CFGNES). Background Transitioning from student role professional nurse is challenging and stressful. Accurate measurement transition important because concerns regarding retention. Methods A secondary analysis 71 919 graduate responses CFGNES, collected 6 months into Vizi...

Early identification of students at risk of dyslexia has been an educational challenge in the past years. This research had two main goals. First, we aimed to develop a screening protocol for early identification of Brazilian children at risk for dyslexia; second, we aimed to identify the predictive variables of this protocol using Principal Component Analysis. The major step involved in develo...

need for cognition scale (ncs) is an instrument for assessing individual’s interest to engage in complex thinking activities and consists both long and short forms. the short form of this scale with 18 items has been used in various researches around the world. the objective of this research was to obtain the factor structure of the persian version of ncs (short form) and study of gender differ...

this study examines the impact of service quality on customer satisfaction and loyalty in indian banking sector by applying servperf scale. a total of 50 customers of state bank of india, mohan nagar township branch of salem district in tamilnadu were interviewed on convenient basis for the above purpose.  tools like exploratory factor analysis. inter-correlation, analysis of variance, multiple...