In this study, it is aimed to develop a measurement tool determine teachers' professional value-oriented living tendencies. By scanning the literature, scale development stages were followed and draft form with 50 items was created. The prepared applied 25 teachers as preliminary test then rearranged in line expert opinions. research group consisting of 1130 working public schools (primary scho...

Through literature review, interviews and open questionnaires, we develop a Middle School Principals’ Moral Leadership Scale (SPMLS) which suits the Chinese cultural background. Exploratory Factor Analysis ( EFA) of a sample of 92 valid questionnaires shows that the moral leadership of middle school principals takes on a clear five-dimensioned model with factors named Fairness and Justice, Inte...

While there is increasingly strategic importance in knowledge, it is facing new challenges to manage knowledge effectively. The paper studies the motivational construct model for knowledge sharing from the perspective of content theories and social motivation theories. The data collected by using the questionnaire survey from a variety of industries was analyzed on the basis of interviews and p...

OBJECTIVE To systematically evaluate the latent structure of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) through reanalysis of previous studies and meta confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). METHOD Data from 28 samples were obtained from published studies concerning the latent structure of the HADS. Ten models were considered, including eight previously identified models and two bifactor m...

aims: evaluation of patient satisfaction (ps) is one of the most essential factors in improving the quality of healthcare systems. the aim of this study is to determine the norms and to evaluate the validity and reliability of the najmiyeh outpatients satisfaction questionnaire (nosq). methods and materials: this study has been conducted on 240 outpatients in najmiyeh subspecialty hospital (teh...

BACKGROUND Evaluation of patients' experience of their osteopathic treatment has recently been investigated leading to the development of the Patient Perception Measure - Osteopathy (PPM-O). The aim of the study was to investigate the construct validity of the PPM-O. METHODS Patients presenting to osteopathy student-led teaching clinics at two Australian universities were asked to complete tw...

The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the psychometric properties of a stage-specific self-efficacy scale for physical activity with classical test theory (CTT), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and item response modeling (IRM). Women who enrolled in the Women On The Move study completed a 20-item stage-specific self-efficacy scale developed for this study [n=226, 51.1% African-American a...

21st century education is now facing many challenges. Among the challenges of are to provide learning that focuses on thinking skills at a high level, and labour after finishing school. Therefore, this study was carried out develop framework modern in technical vocational system Malaysia. Respondents comprised 367 students institutions Random sampling easy use. Questionnaire instruments using L...

The aim of this study was to assess the factorial structure of complicated grief (CG) and investigate the relationship between CG and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) through the assessment of models combining both constructs. The questionnaire was completed by elderly, married respondents with a history of at least one significant, interpersonal loss (145 males and 147 females, 60-81 years...

OBJECTIVES To determine the factor structure of posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and assess its stability over time among parents of children diagnosed with cancer. METHODS Parents of children with cancer included in a longitudinal study completed the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) Checklist-Civilian Version 2 weeks (n = 249) and 2 (n = 234) and 4 (n = 203) months after their child'...