While there is increasingly strategic importance in knowledge, it is facing new challenges to manage knowledge effectively. The paper studies the motivational construct model for knowledge sharing from the perspective of content theories and social motivation theories. The data collected by using the questionnaire survey from a variety of industries was analyzed on the basis of interviews and p...

The HOPE Scale was introduced with initial validity evidence at the 2009 AERA conference. Based on these results a new validity study was conducted on revisions made to the Scale. Items were added and the HOPE Scale was completed by a new sample of 71 teachers on their respective 1700 students. Using these data, the HOPE Scale was evaluated using confirmatory factor analysis and multi-group CFA...

Acquiring new consumers is an expensive process. More often, profits are generated only during the later stage of serving loyal consumers. An increase in the number of e-businesses results in an urgency to better understand the concept of e-loyalty. This research therefore aims to provide some insights as to how technological aspects, namely Website quality and product/technology innovation, ma...

Researchers often compare groups of individuals on psychological variables. When comparing groups an assumption is made that the instrument measures the same psychological construct in all groups. If this assumption holds, the comparisons are valid and differences/similarities between groups can be meaningfully interpreted. If this assumption does not hold, comparisons and interpretations are n...

This research aimed at investigating the impact of website features and involvement on immediate online shopping. The research is applied in terms of type and it is causative in terms of methodology. The statistical population consisted of all citizens of Tabriz, who have purchased clothes online at least once and 260 individuals were chosen randomly and the questionnaires were collected accord...

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...