The aim of this methodological study was to translate, culturally adapt and assess the internal consistency and validity of the Spanish version of the “Spirituality Questionnaire”. The sample comprised 204 young people between 18 and 25 years of age from two universities in Bogotá. Cronbach’s Alpha was used for reliability, while groups of experts and young people were used for construct validi...

In the present study, we reject the view that computer use can be studied as an isolated variable in a learning environment. Our main objective is to develop an instrumental tool to measure different types of educational computer use in the classroom. This builds on a comprehensive review of the literature about computer use in education. This review helped to construct a questionnaire to ident...

This purpose of this paper was to test a three-dimensional model of recreational specialization developed by Scott and Shafer (2001a). The model suggests recreational specialization could be conceptualized in terms of three distinct dimensions: behavior, skill and knowledge, and commitment. The model was tested using data from avid American birdwatchers (members of the American Birding Associat...

aims: the presence of a patient with breast cancer in the family can be considered as aguidance for further prevention and increase the susceptibility of people against this disease.champion's health belief model scale is translated and tested in different countries, but fewattempts have been made to measure this scale in women with history of breast cancer.methods: after the standard champion'...

aim and background: in this study, the psychometric properties and hierarchal structural validity of short form health survey scale (sf-36) among students using structural equating modeling was investigated. methods and materials: a sample with 310 students (158 male and 152 female) from tehran university were chosen by multistage sampling method. for verifying discernment validity, two clinica...