This study aims to validate a model for evaluating learning management systems (LMS) used in e-learning fields. A survey of 163 e-learning experts, regarding 81 validation items developed through literature review, was used to ascertain the importance of the criteria. A concise list of explanatory constructs, including two principle factors, was extracted from the responses of 133 respondents b...

Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to examine the underlying structure of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia as measured by the Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS). Schizophrenia patients (AT = 457) were assessed with the SANS on at least I of 2 occasions: (a) 2-4 weeks after an index hospitalization, and (b) after a clinical stabilization period that lasted 3-6 mo...

This paper reports the development and validation of a short Use of Creative Cognition Scale in studying (UCCS) that was inspired by the Cognitive Processes Associated with Creativity (CPAC) scale. In Study 1, items from two of the six subscales of the CPAC were excluded due to conceptual and psychometric issues to create a 21-item CPAC scale, which was administered to 517 university students. ...

Although early studies in the fields of education and psychology appreciated the value of imagination, little work has been done pertaining to indicators of imagination. This study synthesized early works on imagination done between 1900 and 2011 to clarify its meaning and identify potential indicators. Then, two groups of samples were collected and validated through exploratory factor analysis...

In this study, based on the analysis of existing definitions of emotional labor, operational definition of teachers' emotional labor is given and questionnaire on emotional labor among primary and secondary school teachers is developed. Research results: exploratory factor analysis shows that teacher’s emotional labor involves three dimensions including surface acting, active deep acting and pa...

Purpose: The aim of this study is to examine the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of Wellness SelfPerceptions Scale (WSPS). Methods: Five hundred fifty-five university students voluntarily participated in this study. WSPS consists of 15 items and 5 factors (Emotional, Intellectual, Physical, Social and Spiritual Wellness). For each factors and for the general of the scale, total ...

The basic idea of exploratory factor analysis is the following. For a given set of observed response variables one wants to find a set of latent factors, fewer in number than the observed variables. These factors are supposed to account for the intercorrelations of the response variables in the sense that when the factors are partialed out from the observed variables, there should no longer rem...

The purpose of this research is to test the tourist’s perception in the choice of selection a destination under the perspective of Bangladeshi tourism environment. The survey instrument was employed by using convenience sampling procedure on 250 tourists from significant tourist’s destination places from Bangladesh. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) followed by Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA...

The study focuses on designing a Multicultural Competence Scale in Helping-Profession Students. The aim was to create an assessment tool of multicultural competence in students of helping professions as such a tool has been non-existent so far in the Central Europe. The scale construction was inspired by the four following instruments: CBMCS, MAKSS, MSPCCS and IIMCS. Through content validation,...