This study examined whether employees develop perceptions about 3 different types of fit: person-organization fit, needs-supplies fit, and demands-abilities fit. Confirmatory factor analyses of data from 2 different samples strongly suggested that employees differentiate between these 3 types of fit. Furthermore, results from a longitudinal design of 187 managers supported both the convergent a...

Hardiness, comprising feelings of commitment, control and challenge, is most frequently measured with the Dispositional Resiliency Scale (DRS), but little work has been done with the brief 15-item version. To examine the factor structure, reliability, validity, and item functioning for gender invariance of the 15-item DRS with 525 collegiate athletes from a wide range of sports. Convergent and ...

The aim of the present study was to translate and adapt Preference for Tolerance Intensity Exercise Questionnaire Portuguese (PRETIE-Q-PT), analyze its psychometric properties (factorial validity with gender invariance analyses, reliability, temporal stability, construct validity). sample composed 445 participants (55.9% women), a mean age 29.6 years (SD = 8.2). To verify scale, structural equa...

background : lack of insight in patients with bipolar i disorder has been associated with poor course and clinical outcome and compromised therapeutic compliance. therefore, it is important to evaluate insight and use more specialized scales such as mood disorder insight scale (mdis) in these patients. our objective in this study was to assess validity and reliability of persian version of mdis...

Centralization is a symptom response to repeated movements that can be used to classify patients into sub-groups, determine appropriate management strategies, and prognosis. The aim of this study was to systematically review the literature relating to centralization and directional preference, and specifically report on prevalence, prognostic validity, reliability, loading strategies, and diagn...

Despite historical concerns about the validity of the construct of borderline personality disorder (BPD) in adolescence, there is now general consensus that BPD in adolescence constitutes a valid and reliable diagnosis. Yet the development and refinement of measures to assess borderline traits in adolescents is in its infancy. Moreover, brief and easy-to-administer measures of borderline traits...

BACKGROUND Yoga is a behavioral practice that uses physical movement, breathing, and meditation to improve health and promote personal transformation. Ancient yoga philosophy proposed that an individual's confidence about yoga, a concept similar to self-efficacy, will affect the likelihood of improved health from yoga practice. The purpose of this study was to develop and examine the psychometr...

The aim of this paper is to optimize the thickness variation function simply supported and cantilever beams, in terms maximizing gaps between chosen neighboring frequencies, analyze obtained results. optimization results are examined achieving objective (related eigenvalue problems), but also their dynamic stiffness (forced vibrations excited by a point harmonic load). In process, genetic algor...

Objective. To develop and assess a homosexuality-related stigma scale among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Hanoi, Vietnam. Methods. We conducted a cross-sectional study using respondent-driven sampling in Hanoi, Vietnam, in 2011. We used a cross-validation approach. Factor analysis was performed, and interitem correlation matrices were constructed to identify the latent factor structures, e...

BACKGROUND Domestic violence against married women has persisted throughout Korean history. However, very little empirical research has been conducted in Korea about domestic violence, its causes, or women's responses. OBJECTIVE To develop and test psychometrically the Korean Women's Abuse Intolerance Scale (KWAIS) to measure women's propensity or desire to leave abusive husbands in Korea. ...