The purpose of this study was to test the reliability and validity of the Turkish version of the Service Quality Assessment Scale (SQAS). The participants of this study constituted of 338 male (53.1%) and 298 female (46.9%) health-fitness club&rsquo / s members. The Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was used to examine the factor structure of the SQAS instrument, which assess the service quality of health-fitness clubs. Six-factor model of SQAS was analyzed based on the Maximum Likelihood (ML) estimation method. The goodness-of-fit indices of the model were admissible: for the expectation model Root Mean Square Error of Approximation (RMSEA) was = .067, Standardized Root Mean Square Residual (SRMR) was = .056, and both the Comparative Fit Index (CFI), the Incremental Fit Index (IFI), besides the Non-Normed Fit Index (NNFI) was = .95. For the perception model RMSEA was = .059, SRMR was = .054, and both the CFI, the IFI, as well as the NNFI was = .96. It was concluded that all of the goodness-of-fit indices of both the expectation and perception model were admissible, with the perception model slight better than the expectation model. The composite reliability and variance extracted was also calculated for expectation and perception model. Analysis indicated that CR values were all above .70 for both expectation model (.74 to 1.00) and perception model (.73 to 1.00). The variance extracted values with the exception of Child Care were comparatively lower than the .50 standard. The present study demonstrated that the SQAS with six-factor model appears to be a reliable and valid instrument to measure the service quality of health-fitness clubs.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/1033844/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 August 2003 |
| Creators | Gurbuz, Bulent |
| Contributors | Kocak, Settar |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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