This study investigates professional and job‐related attitudes and
behavioural intentions of 427 state and municipal governmental
accountants from five southwestern states. While professional commitment
has been investigated in terms of its impact on conflict, researchers
have not investigated the possibility of a model of professional
attitudes that mirrors organisational attitude models and attempts to
predict professional turnover intentions. The conceptual model proposed
in this study combines organisational and professional concepts into a
single model with the goal of assessing the predictive ability of
professional attitudes in conjunction with organisational attitudes with
respect to organisational turnover intentions. Path analysis was used to
estimate coefficients between related variables as an indication of
direct relationships. Attitudes of governmental accountants were
observed to be a complex set of relationships including professional as
well as traditional organisational attitudes (job and professional
satisfaction and organisational and professional commitments) as
predictors of professional and organisational turnover intentions.
Writing apprehension (WA) has been identified as an important construct for understanding the factors that influence student development of writing skills. Although the 1975 Daly and Miller scale has dominated the WA investigation, psychometric research has been limited to the identification of question groupings within the measure. All but the 1983 study by Boozer, Lally, and Stacks have presented the WA questions in the order specified on the original scale even though no theoretical basis for the ordering was provided. It is possible that items presented in the same order may consistently produce similar factors because an ordering effect exists rather than separate dimensions. The current study employs factor analysis and comparability analysis to investigate the impact of item order on the number of factors and the underlying factor structure stability of the WA construct. Results indicate that the randomized item factor structure was comparable with the original item order factor structure.
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