... previously developed through qualitative research. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on friendship theory and prior qualitative research, an initial item pool was generated based on three core dimensions: disclosure, social support and activities. Following a widely recognized scale development...

... 2025 01 02 2026 07 02 2026 © 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Islamic religiosity Theory of planned behavior Hospitality services choice Gaming destinations Gambling Religiosity Scale development “Let a man...

..., we aim to conceptualise PSRS in the workplace and to develop a validated scale for PSRS . Following a rigorous multi-step scale development process, we used a five-stage mixed-methods design. The findings contribute to human resource management research by elucidating the multidimensional nature...

... in destination branding. Design/methodology/approach Following rigorous scale development procedures, this study conducted four studies (i.e. item generation, item purification, scale refinement, and scale validation and model testing) to develop and validate the scale of EDE . Findings This study...

... in the field over time and suggest directions for future research. Design/methodology/approach Using the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses ( PRISMA ) methodology for data collection, the authors analyzed 135 scale development and validation papers published from 1996...

... 2024 23 11 2024 04 01 2025 03 02 2025 09 02 2025 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Smartphone application Application quality Scale development Platforms like the Apple App Store, boasting 1.96 million...

.... © Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Virtue Flourishing Empathy Embrace Execution Scale development Throughout its history as an academic discipline, hospitality research has been primarily conducted from an industry-level...

... in relation to practices that encourage acceptance of demographically diverse leaders. This study aims to bridge this gap by developing the perceived inclusion climate for leader diversity (PICLD) scale. Design/methodology/approach The scale development process was carried out in five phases which...

...Florian Kock; Adiyukh Berbekova; A. George Assaf; Alexander Josiassen Purpose The purpose of this paper, a critical reflection, is twofold. First, by comprehensively reviewing scale development procedures in hospitality research, a concerning lack of nomological validity testing is demonstrated...

... © Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Event tourist Experience value Scale development In recent years, events have grown tremendously in number, variety and popularity (Armbrecht, 2021). More and more events are now widely...

...-D) logic perspective and develop a CCV scale for hospitality services. In addition to the conventional psychometric procedure for scale development, this study combined text-mining techniques and interviews to generate items to capture the concept of CCV comprehensively. Exploratory...

... to identify and assess composite scales. As such, this paper proposes updated guidelines by incorporating the confirmatory composite analysis to assess composite scales. This paper offers unique theoretical and methodological contributions to scale development literature, by identifying...

... experience, whereas the experiential system would intuitively judge the dining experience from feeling and mood. Both qualitative scale development and quantitative scale validation were conducted to ensure the psychometric properties of TAGES. With the focus group’s contributions and experts...

...Reha Kılıçhan; Kurtuluş Karamustafa; Kemal Birdir Against the background briefly presented above, this study followed the best practices suggested and used by Lawshe (1975) , Churchill (1979) ; and DeVellis (2003), important experts in scale development and validation, to develop...

... in the hospitality industry. It expanded academically the current knowledge of organizational culture and customer delight. Customer delight Organizational culture Hospitality industry Scale development Customer satisfaction is essential for every business, and good customer service is one...

...Huseyin Arasli; Levent Altinay; Hasan Evrim Arici The results show that the measurement scale developed in this research provides considerable reliability, as well as convergent and discriminant validities. In particular, the findings confirmed a four-dimensional measurement scale of the SEL...

... of HEPJR from a risk-source perspective. Scale development Hotel employee Accident causation theory Perceived job risk National Natural Science Foundation of China 41971182 Humanities and Social Sciences Science Foundation of Ministry of Education of China 19YJAZH097 Postgraduates...

... re-use rights only Hotels Servicescape Hospitality marketing Scale development Physical environment Since Kotler (1973) coined the term “atmospherics” to describe the conscious designing of space to create effects in buyers, the physical space has been investigated for its...

... was developed using a three-stage process: initial item generation, scale development and scale evaluation. A total of 369 self-administered questionnaires validated the developed scale. Findings The results showed five dimensions of value of destination restaurant services: service quality value, authentic...

...Annie Ko; Andrew Chan; Simon C.K. Wong Organizational behaviour Human resource management Corporate social responsibility Scale development Dimensionality of perceived corporate social responsibility Hotel employees’ perceptions Despite the proliferation of CSR research that focuses...