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Thomas Li-ping Tang

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The love of money and work‐related attitudes

2004

This study examines the love of money and work‐related attitudes and identifies four money profiles based on a sample of citizens in the Republic of Macedonia. Achieving Money Worshipers (the highest scores on Factors Success, Motivator, and Budget and the lowest on Evil) had the highest active involvement in work activities. Careless Money Admirers (the lowest score on Factor Budget) had the highest external locus of control, the highest involvement, and lowest success avoidance. Apathetic Money Managers (the lowest scores on Factors Success and Motivator) had the highest internal locus of control and the lowest involvement. Money Repellent Individuals (the highest score on Factor Evil) ha…

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementWork activityActive involvementLocus of controlSocial PsychologyScale (social sciences)EconomicsBudgetary ControlManagement Science and Operations ResearchWork relatedSocial psychologyCost containmentApplied PsychologyJournal of Managerial Psychology
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The Love of Money, Satisfaction, and the Protestant Work Ethic: Money Profiles Among Univesity Professors in the U.S.A. and Spain

2004

This study tests the hypothesis that university professors (lecturers) (in the U.S. and Spain) with different money profiles (based on Factors Success, Budget, Motivator, Equity, and Evil of the Love of Money Scale) will differ in work-related attitudes and satisfaction. Results suggested that Achieving Money Worshipers (with high scores on Factors Success, Motivator, Equity, and Budget) had high income, Work Ethic, and high satisfaction with pay level, pay administration, and internal equity comparison but low satisfaction with external equity comparison. Careless Money Admirers (high Success but low Budget) had low intrinsic job satisfaction and low satisfaction with pay level and life. A…

Low incomeEconomics and EconometricsEquity (economics)Work ethicLife satisfactionGeneral Business Management and AccountingWork experienceArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)EconomicsJob satisfactionProtestant work ethicBusiness and International ManagementBusiness ethicsLawSocial psychologyJournal of Business Ethics
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Materialism and the Bright and Dark Sides of the Financial Dream in Spain: The Positive Role of Money Attitudes-The Matthew Effect

2012

Research suggests that materialism leads to the dark side of the financial dream. In this study, we treat love of money as a mediator and test a theoretical model's direct path (Materialism to Financial Satisfaction) and indirect path (Materialism to Love of Money to Financial Satisfaction) simultaneously using the whole sample and across several demographic variables based on 1,011 citizens in Spain. Results for the whole sample showed that the positive indirect effect suppressed the negative direct effect creating an overall small positive effect. Furthermore, we found a significant negative direct path for rural dwellers, the 30–44-year-old age group, and married people, but a positive i…

Financebusiness.industrymedia_common.quotation_subjectCounterintuitiveSample (statistics)Test (assessment)symbols.namesakeOptimismArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Great RiftDevelopmental and Educational PsychologysymbolsMatthew effectMaterialismDreambusinessPsychologySocial psychologyApplied Psychologymedia_commonApplied Psychology
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The Love of Money and Pay Level Satisfaction: Measurement and Functional Equivalence in 29 Geopolitical Entities around the World

2006

Demonstrating the equivalence of constructs is a key requirement for cross-cultural empirical research. The major purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how to assess measurement and functional equivalence or invariance using the 9-item, 3-factor Love of Money Scale (LOMS, a second-order factor model) and the 4-item, 1-factor Pay Level Satisfaction Scale (PLSS, a first-order factor model) across 29 samples in six continents (N = 5973). In step 1, we tested the configural, metric and scalar invariance of the LOMS and 17 samples achieved measurement invariance. In step 2, we applied the same procedures to the PLSS and nine samples achieved measurement invariance. Five samples (Brazil, China,…

Strategy and Managementcross-cultural empirical researchfunctional equivalencethe love of moneypay level satisfactionmeasurement invariancethe love of money; pay level satisfaction; measurement invariance; functional equivalence; cross-cultural empirical researchEmpirical researchStatisticsEconomicsEconometricsFunctional equivalenceMeasurement invarianceBusiness and International ManagementCommon-method varianceEquivalence (measure theory)Management and Organization Review
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The Use of Cluster Analysis to Segment Clients of a Sport Center in Spain

2005

Abstract This research examines the motivation profiles of 218 consumers at a sport center in Valencia, Spain. We employed the Motivation in Sport Scale (MISS–Sport Center) with the following eight motives (factors): Positive Affect, Social Contact, Physical Exercise, Coping Strategy, Challenge, Body Image, Competition, and Entertainment. There were significant differences in consumers’ motives across gender, age, and marital status. We identified five motivation profiles using the eight motives of MISS–Sport Center: Non-Competitive Leisure-Oriented Exercisers, Practical Social Entertainers, Affective Users, Enthusiastic Sportspersons, and Passive Participants. There were differences in dem…

EntertainmentCompetition (economics)Social contactStrategy and ManagementTourism Leisure and Hospitality ManagementScale (social sciences)Marital statusCenter (algebra and category theory)PsychologyDisease clusterSocial psychologyEuropean Sport Management Quarterly
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