BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to assess the validity and reliability of Nijmegen questionnaire (NQ) translated to Farsi for diagnosis of the hyperventilation syndrome (HVS) in patients with asthma. MATERIALS AND METHODS The original version of NQ was translated to Farsi and then back-translated to English again to assess its agreement with the original version. To determine its cultura...

The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule - Direction (PANAS-D) questionnaire was translated from the French version developed by Nicolas and coworkers into Arabic-Tunisian language and administered to a sample of 519 athletes (mean age 19.43±3.78 years; 230 male, 229 female; 75 competing at international level, 287 at national level, 130 at regional level, and 27 at local level). A semi-confir...

Below is the information needed to score the Corr-Cooper RST Personality Questionnaire (RST-PQ). Also, included below is text describing important aspects of the questionnaire. Please bear in mind that there are two major levels of the questionnaire: a priori (theoretical) facets and empirically-derived factors, shown below. For your analysis, use the empirically-derived factors, as described b...

The objective of this study was to examine the construct validity Three Factor Eating Questionnaire (TFEQ) Revised-18, an instrument designed measure: Uncontrolled Eating, Emotional and Cognitive Restraint, in a sample Mexican adults different weights. 342 man women, with age range 19-79 years old (M=40), were recruited. TFEQ emailed participants who earlier had their weight height measured. Ex...

Through literature review, interviews and open questionnaires, we develop a Middle School Principals’ Moral Leadership Scale (SPMLS) which suits the Chinese cultural background. Exploratory Factor Analysis ( EFA) of a sample of 92 valid questionnaires shows that the moral leadership of middle school principals takes on a clear five-dimensioned model with factors named Fairness and Justice, Inte...

evaluation of communication abilities in the elderly is crucial for activities which will be performed to improve their quality of life. a valid and reliable questionnaire is needed for assessing communication abilities. we aimed to translate and validate the speech, spatial, and qualities of hearing scale (ssq) in iran. the forward-backward procedure was applied to translate the questionnaire ...

this study describes the result of relationship between disc personality types and pay to performance system. also, describe the relationship between herzberg two-factor model and pay to performance. we invited 300 mangers’ of bank refahe kargaran to participate in the study through random selection and received 208 returned responses. the responses rate was 69.3 percent. the data used in this ...