“My Regular Pharmacy”

2021 ◽  
pp. 177-191
Author(s):  
Νiki Glaveli
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Strategic Actions ◽  
The Core ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Evaluative Criteria ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Average Variance ◽  
Patronage Behavior

The objectives of this chapter are (1) to develop an instrument that incorporates the core attributes of evaluative criteria that are used by patients/customers in selecting and repeatedly visiting a community pharmacy, (2) to analyze the proposed attributes in order to put forward valid dimensions of evaluative criteria, and (3) to assess the reliability of this instrument. The selection criteria incorporated in the final list were selected based on an extensive literature review and on experts' and customers' opinions. To collect the data, a survey was conducted in the area of Macedonia, Greece. In total, 223 questionnaires were collected. Confirmatory factor analyses revealed a four-factor structure of the proposed instrument namely: price, availability of products, staff competence, and pharmaceutical care services. Moreover, reliability was assessed through Cronbach's alpha coefficient and average variance extracted. The current study outcomes can guide pharmacists' strategic actions in boosting customer patronage behavior in the highly competitive pharmaceutical sector.

Measuring the Construct of Warranting Value and Testing Warranting Theory

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (8) ◽  
pp. 1193-1215 ◽  
Author(s):  
David C. DeAndrea ◽  
Christopher J. Carpenter
Keyword(s):  
Measurement Instrument ◽  
Measurement Model ◽  
Model Fit ◽  
Information Control ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
The Core ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Control Modification ◽  
Nationally Representative

Warranting theory has been used extensively to explain how people evaluate information across a variety of online settings. However, no validated measurement instrument exists to assess the construct of warranting value that is at the core of the theory. Two studies were conducted to develop and validate a General Warranting Value Scale and three scales that assess specific forms of information control: Modification Control, Dissemination Control, and Source Obfuscation. In addition, we tested predictions of warranting theory using multiple stimuli and samples—including a nationally representative sample of adults. Overall, evidence for scale validity was obtained: Confirmatory factor analyses were consistent with measurement model fit. All scales were sensitive to theoretically predicted manipulations and were correlated with theoretically predicted outcomes.

scholarly journals Does the School Really Support My Child? SOFIA: An Assessment Tool for Families of Children with SEN in Spain

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 7879
Author(s):  
Laura Sánchez-Pujalte ◽  
María Teresa Gómez-Domínguez ◽  
Ana Soto-Rubio ◽  
Diego Navarro-Mateu
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Education Assessment ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
The Family ◽  
Average Variance

The integration of the family in educating their children allows for the optimization of educational intervention. Despite its relevance, there is not much research aimed at collecting the voice of the families of students with Special Educational Needs (SEN) about their relationship with the school system. The present study aims to develop and validate a questionnaire of the family perception of the support received from the educational system, the Satisfaction of Family in Inclusive Education Assessment (SOFIA) Questionnaire, conformed of 26 indicators. Analyses of the psychometric properties of the instrument support that they are good for use in this area. Specifically, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses support the internal structure of the instrument (confirmatory factorial analysis (CFA) = SBχ2 = 607.11, p < 0.001; χ2/df = 2.07; Comparative Adjustment Index (IFC) = 0.902; Incremental Adjustment Index (IFI) = 0.903; the root mean square error approximation (RMSEA) = 0.071) in the same way, all dimension showed adequate reliability (Cronbach’s alpha ranged from 0.91 to 0.94; CR ranged from 0.91 to 0.95). The Average Variance Extracted (AVE) results also showed adequate results (0.55 to 0.68). Our research results indicate that the SOFIA Questionnaire’s psychometric properties are adequate for the Spanish context. The SOFIA Questionnaire is presented as a valid and reliable instrument to collect the families’ perception of the support they receive from the educational system.

scholarly journals Creating Legal Certainty in Sharia Banking Law Systems through the Embodiment of Sharia Compliance Principle

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4-1) ◽  
pp. 153-159
Author(s):  
Muh. Nasikhin ◽  
L. M. Hayyanul Haq ◽  
Zainal Asikin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Legal Certainty ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
The Core ◽  
Extensive Literature Review ◽  
Core Issues ◽  
Islamic Values

Abstract This work is aimed at creating legal certainty sharia compliance arrangements in sharia banking law systems. This idea is highly required to improve the credibility of the sharia-based business activities. Certainly, this study is relevant to solve some normative problems in regulating and managing of the sharia banking activities, particularly regarding sharia compliance. In detail those normative problems can be seen from the inconsistence and ambiguous norms, conflicted norms and legal vacuum in regulating sharia compliance principle. To visualize and elaborate the above issues, these works apply normative legal research, where all data are collected through intensive and extensive literature review. Those data will be analysed by philosophical, statute and conceptual approach. The core issues that will be elaborated in this work are: (i) formulating Islamic values to the some relevant sharia banking law principles; (ii) some normative problems construction of sharia compliance principles in sharia banking law systems; (iii) reconstructing of regulating sharia compliance principles to creating legal certainty. At the end, this work will offer appropriate model in coherence those normative problems in order to creating legal certainty in managing and regulating sharia banking law.

scholarly journals Impact of Store Image Dimensions on Shopper’s Attitude, Perceived Value, and Purchase Intention

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 215824402199482
Author(s):  
K. Balaji ◽  
R. Maheswari
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Purchase Intention ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Perceived Value ◽  
Retail Industry ◽  
Store Image ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Store Attributes ◽  
Confirmatory Factor

The Indian retail industry is witnessing transformation from unorganized to an organized one. The changing and vibrant retail industry poses significant challenges to the retailers to withstand in the competition and to have their business organized. This research work provides an insight over the organized supermarket store image factors and its impact on shoppers’ perspective. This research work connects the store image attributes dimension and its impact on shoppers’ attitude to predict their in-store behavior in retail context. The researcher attempts to create a model by relating the mentioned variables through an extensive literature review. The model has been tested empirically. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and Path analysis confirms that the store attributes dimension impacts shoppers’ attitude which in turn determines the perceived value. Further it confirms that perceived value determines the purchase intention among shoppers in a supermarket outlet.

General Views of Logistics, Outsourcing, and Logistics Outsourcing

2013 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Leonidas Baziotopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Logistics Outsourcing ◽  
The Core ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
Development Cycle ◽  
Product Development Cycle

There seem to be a definitional confusion in the management literature about what is meant by the term “outsourcing.” Several years ago, the control of the product development cycle from raw materials through delivery of product to the customer became important, and the typical examples of make or buy (internalize or externalize) and vertical integration appeared. A theoretical clarification of outsourcing, however, must essentially be grounded in an answer to the question of what is within the firm and what is outside? This chapter presents extensive literature review of definitions on logistics, outsourcing, and logistics outsourcing, as well as empirical evidence on outsourcing decisions. Nonetheless, the author believes that outsourcing must be regarded as a management strategy by which a firm hands over non-core business operations and/or services to efficient outside service specialists, in order to support the core strategy of the client organization.

scholarly journals Three Principles, Expertise and Well-being: Introducing the 3PHR-scale

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriaan Denkers ◽  
Jeanne Catherine-Gray
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Measurement Tool ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Health Realization ◽  
The Core ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The popularity of Three Principles of Health Realization (3PHR) interventions among mental health professionals is increasing. We developed a scale to measure the core theoretical beliefs that underlie 3PHR interventions: Thought, Consciousness, and Mind. To test the scale, we surveyed 282 participants enrolled in an annual 3PHR conference (n = 238). We examined the construct validity using confirmatory factor analyses and investigated its associations with 3PHR expertise on one side and well-being—in particular, purpose in life and affect—on the other. We also examined the mediating effect of the 3PHR scale in explaining the relationship between 3PHR expertise and well-being. The factor analyses confirmed the three-factor structure. Results further demonstrated strong positive interrelations between 3PHR expertise, the 3PHR scale and subscales, and levels of well-being. The relationship between expertise and well-being measures was found to be fully mediated by scores on the 3PHR scale. Both the new measurement tool and the results contribute to furthering the knowledge about potentially important drivers of well-being.

scholarly journals Assessing Satisfaction of Children in out-of-Home Care: Development of Korean out-of-Home Care Satisfaction Scale

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1217-1233
Author(s):  
Sang Jung Lee ◽  
Eun Mi An ◽  
Ick-Joong Chung
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Home Care Services ◽  
Care Group ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Satisfaction Scale ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Out Of Home Care ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Care Satisfaction

AbstractIn order to offer client-centered services, it is important to measure children’s service satisfaction and reflect their needs to out-of-home care practices and policies. However, a reliable measure that assesses children’s satisfaction about out-of-home care is not found in Korea. This study aimed to develop a Korean out-of-home care satisfaction scale. The study sample consisted of 484 children from institutional care, group homes, and foster homes in Korea. Half of the sample was chosen randomly for exploratory factor analysis (EFA) based on 16 items from the Korean Foster Care Improvements Project. The other half of the sample was used for confirmatory factor analyses (CFA). EFA yielded two-factor structures that consist of eight items for each factor. Confirmatory factor analyses supported the two-factor structures with reasonable fit, and all items loaded significantly on the factors. The Korean out-of-home care satisfaction scale could be used as a tool to assess children’s satisfaction with out-of-home care services, which could allow social workers to reflect children’s needs immediately into practice and help policymakers make more informed decisions about out-of-home care services and programs.

scholarly journals Measuring Sports’ Perceived Benefits and Aggression-Related Risks: Karate vs. Football

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Limpo ◽  
Sid Tadrist
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Team Sports ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Perceived Benefits ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Reliability Indices ◽  
The Social ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Cognitive Benefits ◽  
Average Variance

Little is known about people’s perceived benefits and risks of sports, despite their role in shaping people’s intentions to engage in them. Here, we developed and tested a scale to measure perceived physical, emotional, cognitive, and social benefits as well as aggression-related risks of karate and football. Additionally, we compared these perceptions within and between these two sports, as well as among undergraduates with current/former participation in different types of physical activity (viz., martial artists, team sports players, participants in other types of physical activity, and non-participants). After a literature review, we created a 5-factor scale with 20 items administered to 184 undergraduates, along with questions about physical activity participation. After removing five items, confirmatory factor analyses supported the factor structure of the scale. Factor loadings and reliability indices were acceptable, though less than desirable results were found concerning the average variance extracted of all benefits dimensions and the reliability of the social benefits dimension. Analyses of variance showed that: (a) physical benefits were seen as the salient outcomes of karate and football, though martial artists perceived karate’s physical, emotional, and social benefits to the same extent; (b) in comparison to football, karate was perceived to bring more emotional and cognitive benefits and to entail less aggressiveness risks; (c) karate and football perceptions varied as a function of participant’s involvement in physical activity. This study presents a promising instrument to gather information on people’s perceptions about karate and football, which can be used to foster people’s engagement in them.

An Adapted Measure of Teacher Self-Efficacy for Preservice Teachers: Exploring its Validity Across two Countries

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 83-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franziska Pfitzner-Eden ◽  
Felicitas Thiel ◽  
Jenny Horsley
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
3 Dimensional ◽  
Multiple Group ◽  
Three Samples ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Teacher Self Efficacy ◽  
Dimensional Assessment ◽  
Metric Measurement

Teacher self-efficacy (TSE) is an important construct in the prediction of positive student and teacher outcomes. However, problems with its measurement have persisted, often through confounding TSE with other constructs. This research introduces an adapted TSE instrument for preservice teachers, which is closely aligned with self-efficacy experts' recommendations for measuring self-efficacy, and based on a widely used measure of TSE. We provide first evidence of construct validity for this instrument. Participants were 851 preservice teachers in three samples from Germany and New Zealand. Results of the multiple-group confirmatory factor analyses showed a uniform 3-factor solution for all samples, metric measurement invariance, and a consistent and moderate correlation between TSE and a measure of general self-efficacy across all samples. Despite limitations to this study, there is some first evidence that this measure allows for a valid 3-dimensional assessment of TSE in preservice teachers.

Perceived Mutual Understanding (PMU)

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Burtscher ◽  
Jeannette Oostlander
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Team Cognition ◽  
Internal Reliability ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Team Processes ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Item Parameters ◽  
Three Samples ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
The Individual

Abstract. Team cognition plays an important role in predicting team processes and outcomes. Thus far, research has focused on structured cognition while paying little attention to perceptual cognition. The lack of research on perceptual team cognition can be attributed to the absence of an appropriate measure. To address this gap, we introduce the construct of perceived mutual understanding (PMU) as a type of perceptual team cognition and describe the development of a respective measure – the PMU-scale. Based on three samples from different team settings ( NTotal = 566), our findings show that the scale has good psychometric properties – both at the individual as well as at the team-level. Item parameters were improved during a multistage process. Exploratory as well as confirmatory factor analyses indicate that PMU is a one-dimensional construct. The scale demonstrates sufficient internal reliability. Correlational analyses provide initial proof of construct validity. Finally, common indicators for inter-rater reliability and inter-rater agreement suggest that treating PMU as a team-level construct is justified. The PMU-scale represents a convenient and versatile measure that will potentially foster empirical research on perceptual team cognition and thereby contribute to the advancement of team cognition research in general.

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