a r t i c l e i n f o The technology acceptance model (TAM) has been applied in various fields to study a wide range of information technologies. Although TAM has been developed in this research stream in Taiwan, TAM's issues of measurement have received scant attention. A robust model must perform measurement invariance across different respondent subgroups to ensure that various sample profil...

introduction: the present study aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of grasha-riechmann student learning styles scale. method: the participants included 1039 students (421 students in human and 618 students in technical sciences), selected through the stratified sampling method from tehran university. they answered the grasha-riechmann student learning style scale and the data was ...

BACKGROUND The Illness Cognition Questionnaire (ICQ; Evers et al., J Consult Clin Psychol, 69:1026-1036, 2001) assesses three ways of cognitively evaluating the stressful and aversive character of a chronic illness: helplessness, acceptance, and perceived benefits. PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the construct validity of the ICQ in individuals with chronic pain and patients...

The employability of students is an essential factor that every school must consider. This study aims to test the validity and reliability scale construct, determine contribution each aspect indicator in reflecting variables, whether theoretical model fits with empirical data. Employability measured by four aspects, namely skills, knowledge, understanding, personality attributes. subjects this ...

BACKGROUND The revision of Acute Stress Disorder (ASD) in the DSM-5 (DSM-5, 2013) proposes a cluster-free model of ASD symptoms in both adults and youth. Published evaluations of competing models of ASD clustering in youth have rarely been examined. METHODS We used Confirmatory Factor Analysis (combined with multigroup invariance tests) to explore the latent structure of ASD symptoms in a tra...

Abstract Background Health education basing on patients’ information-seeking styles can improve the effectiveness of health and outcomes. The Miller Behavioral Style Scale (MBSS) is widely used to identify individual’s styles, but Chinese version lacking. study aim was translate culturally adapt MBSS into test content validity, construct validity internal consistency reliability (C-MBSS). Metho...

The study analyzes national identity using the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) database for waves of 2003 and 2013. First, Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) Multigroup Confirmatory (MGCFA) are used to find dimensions items included in module. Second, civic ethnic analyzed through both a fuzzy clustering analysis an extended apostle model classify citizens’ as following: (1) post nati...

Article history: Received 9 March 2016 Received in revised form 26 April 2016 Accepted 30 April 2016 Available online 14 May 2016 The present study compared the psychometric properties of the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (TEIQue) in Catalan and UK samples. The results showed similar means and standard deviations in the facets scoring higher in both languages, except for Adaptabili...