Chief Information Officers (CIOs) around the globe are being drawn into the implementation of Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) compliance. According to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) (www.pcaob-us.org) , 15,000 US companies, 1,200 non-US based companies and 1,423 accounting firms spread across 76 countries are affected by SOX. In particular, Section 404 (404), which deals with manage...

personal well-being is important structure that in low level results in depression and social isolation and reduction of mental and physical health (king, 2001). so, because of the high rate of depression and anxiety and association of them with stress among students, this article study and assessed the anxiety, depression, stress and personal well-being (quality of life) among students. hypoth...

This research was a team effort of Enzo Valenzi and myself. I'm deeply grateful to Enzo for his years of statistical contributions to the development of the PSI. Abstract This study was designed to revise the six scales of the Personal Style In-items for each scale were evaluated using the confirmatory factor analysis procedure of structural equation modeling as implemented in LISREL 8. Each it...

The authors introduce the Personal Living Space Cue Inventory (PLSCI), designed to document comprehensively features of personal living spaces (PLSs); common examples of PLSs include rooms in family households, dormitories, or residential centers. The article describes the PLSCI’s development and provides evidence for its reliability and sensitivity. Next, the authors employ case-study comparis...

Two versions of the Personal Orientation Inventory were administered to 317 subjects. One version employed the standard two-choice response format. The other version used a six-choice response format. The purpose of this study was (1) to determine if a multiple-response format resulted in improved psychometric properties, (2) to compare the component structure of the two versions, and (3) to co...