The present study examined the extent of measurement invariance of the Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire – 2 (BREQ-2) scores across Greek men and women exercise participants. Data were analyzed from 330 men and 403 women exercise participants aged between 18 and 64 years. After obtaining a sound factor structure via confirmatory factor analysis and strong internal consistency of t...

The goal of the present study is to conduct a comprehensive examination of reliability and validity of Malay language 20-item version of workplace spirituality scales developed by Ashmos and Duchon (2000) in Malaysian school setting. Therefore a translated version of established content and concurrent validity 20-item scale was used. Confirmatory factor analysis in Malaysian secondary school te...

The Psychological well being Inventory (PWBI) is a multidimensional instrument that has enjoyed widespread use in a variety of research initiatives, from small-scale studies to national surveys. Recent empirical investigation of the measure has raised questions about its validity. This study examines the factorial validity of the Environmental Mastery Scale of the PWBI, a construct that receive...

The contextual performance has drawn much attention from some growing study bodies, and western researchers have proposed the dimensions of it. However, few empirical researches have been conducted on this topic in mainland China. This study explored the structure and developed the scale of Chinese secondary school teachers’ contextual performance. The results indicate that the scale contains f...

Article history: Received 23 October 2007 Received in revised form 3 May 2010 Accepted 8 July 2010 Available online 3 August 2010 This paper compares different theoretical models of the structure of intelligence, based on the analysis of data obtained in a series of measured abilities corresponding to the Spectrum assessment activities (Gardner, Feldman & Krechevsky, 1998) in a sample of 393 ch...

The purpose of this study is to propose a 6-T model (Tool, Toy, Telephone, Territory, Treasure of Information, and Trade) to explore college students’ Internet-related attitudes, and to examine whether gender and grade level make any difference in their attitudes. Data from 1069 participants were collected from 96 Taiwanese universities and colleges. A Confirmatory Factor Analysis validated the...

This study’s purpose was to examine the psychometric properties of two new scales developed to quantitatively measure participants’ ownership in exercise classes and empowerment with respect to exercise. These two outcome measures will compliment Achievement Goal Perspective Theory (AGPT) grounded research to better understand participants’ exercise experiences. College exercise class participa...

Online education has many advantages, but many college students have never used the online education.Therefore, it is necessary to study the impacting factors of willingness to use the online education. In this paper, samples are collected in full-time college students of Jiujiang University.The theory of planned behavior is expanded by introducing perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use...

In social science, we typically work with measures that are laden with error. This chapter provides a non-technical introduction to the use of confirmatory factor analysis for crossnational comparisons that include mean structures and control for measurement errors. This method allows for the testing of hypotheses about group mean differences on unobserved, latent variables instead of manifest ...