abstract background and aim: the purpose of the present research was to validating the revised dyadic adjustment scales for marital quality in men and women referred in sanandaj counseling centered. methods: disgn is a study of correlation sort (factor analysis of tendentious oblimin rotation sort). in this research 384 subjects(women and men) were selected from clients in sanandaj counseling c...

There is no unified view about how teachers’ integration of information and communication technology (ICT) should be measured. While many instruments have focused on the technological aspects, recent studies have suggested teachers’ pedagogical considerations, professional development, and emerging ethical and safety issues should be included when assessing teachers’ ICT literacy. Using the per...

The subjective nature of loneliness poses challenges for valid and reliable assessment methods what should we ask when we want to evaluate one ́s loneliness? Therefore, this study aimed to compare loneliness assessed by different indicators: frequency of loneliness over the last year, number of good friends, satisfaction with existing social relationships, and the short version of the UCLA Lonel...

The main goal of this study was to analyze the psychometric properties of the Perception of Parents Scale (POPS) developed by Robbins (1994), with a sample of middle-adolescents with ages between 14 and 18 years. The confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to examine the reliability and validity of a three-dimension model of adolescents’ perception of mother and father based on perspective o...

Confirmatory factor analysis was originally proposed as a method for the confirmatory investigation of the structure of covariance matrices (Jöreskog, 1970). In such investigations the focus was on the correct assignment of manifest to latent variables, and it has proven to be a valuable research tool in a large number of applications. The theoretical importance of this focus results from the a...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to validate the Japanese version of the job crafting scale (JCS-J). JCS measures four independent job crafting dimensions, namely increasing structural job resources, decreasing hindering job demands, increasing social job resources, and increasing challenging job demands. METHODS The translated and back-translated JCS-J questionnaires were administered on...

Australia has been at the forefront of the adoption of outsourcing as a means for delivering IT services, but the success of IT outsourcing in Australia has been mixed. With two hundred and forty one responses from the top 1000 IT users in the country, the survey reported in this paper is one of the largest and most representative IT outsourcing studies in the world. Covariance structure modell...