This article describes the development of the Milwaukee Inventory for Subtypes of TrichotillomaniaAdult Version (MIST-A), which was designed to assess “automatic” and “focused” pulling subtypes of trichotillomania (TTM). Participants reporting symptoms of TTM (n=1,697) completed an internet survey; participants were later randomly assigned to either Exploratory (n=848) or Confirmatory (n=849) A...

Faced with the rapid development of electronic commerce in Mexico and in many parts of the world, it becomes increasingly necessary to rely on theoretical-empirical studies that include both qualitative and quantitative analysis, to help us understand the many faces of electronic trading activity. As SME’s are playing a very important role in the world economy, this research is aimed to analyze...

Article history: Received 12 July 2016 Received in revised form 5 September 2016 Accepted 30 September 2016 Available online xxxx This study investigated factor structure, reliability, and criterion validity of the original 12-item version aswell as an abbreviated 10-item version of Mroczek and Kolarz' Negative and Positive Affect Scale (NAPAS). The sample (N=2718)was drawn from the thirdwave o...

In this study, the validity of the recently developed 28-item Resilience Scale for Adolescents (READ) was examined. Survey data from a representative sample of 6,723 Norwegian senior high school students between 18 and 20 years of age were used for this purpose. Validity and reliability were investigated by means of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, correlations with other relevant ...

There is a growing consensus that the adoption of performance measurement tools are of particular interest for social enterprises in order to support internal decision-making and to answer the demands of accountability toward their stakeholders. As a result, different methodologies to assess the non-financial performance of social enterprises are developed by academics and practitioners. Many o...

As the use of technology permeates organizations, as well as our personal and professional lives, organizational research has aimed to report the incidence of security breaches. However, selfreporting in survey research is flawed given that organizations are hesitant to admit to loss of sensitive data and other security breaches. Furthermore, there are gradients of breaches, rather than binomia...

In a previous study, a conceptual model of wisdom was created (Brown, 2004a) to better understand integrated learning outcomes. The purpose of this study is to develop a scale to measure this wisdom construct. This article discusses salient aspects of the extant professional literature regarding the measurement of wisdom and details the efforts to develop a valid and reliable Wisdom Development...

The aims of this research were to assess the psychometric properties of the Need for Cognition Scale, and to test its factor structure. Both exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis were used. The results suggest that the Need for Cognition Scale – the short form has good psychometric properties after its translation into Romanian. Alfa Cronbach coefficients showed high reliability and conf...

There is currently no quantitative tool for measuring paternal involvement in childcare and housework. To address this, we run Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) on a sample of households from the 2001-02 sweep of the UK’s Millennium Cohort Study. Two quantitative measures of paternal involvement in childcare and housework are derived for when the child is aged nine months old, which appear to ...