Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Organizational Innovation (ICOI 2017)

Discussion of the Measurement Invariance Across Gender in the Version of the Part of Responsiveness in Servqual Scale

Authors
Feng-Ming Liu, Yun-Chin Huang, Shih-Lung Ching, Yu-Jia Hu
Corresponding Author
Feng-Ming Liu
Available Online July 2017.
DOI
10.2991/icoi-17.2017.10How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Service quality, SERVQUAL, responsiveness, measurement invariance, retail chain stores, Taiwan
Abstract

This quantitative research was to examine the measurement invariance across gender for the part of Responsiveness in SERVQUAL Scale for retail chain stores business in Taiwan. The SERVQUAL Scale has become the most common questionnaire for investigating the perception of service quality in current service industry. However, the measurement invariance issue across groups in SERVQUA only received very few considerations. Previous studies also revealed there was the significant relationship between gender and service quality. The participants in this research were selected as customers from four retail chain stores in Taiwan, resulting in 200 individual surveys for analysis. The outcomes indicated the Taiwan version of Responsiveness 5-item scale achieved strict measurement invariance across gender. The property of factor loading, structural covariances and measurement residuals across gender were invariant. Finally, this research generated the recommendations for retail chain stores business in Taiwan and suggested future scholar studies.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Organizational Innovation (ICOI 2017)
Series
Advances in Intelligent Systems Research
Publication Date
July 2017
ISBN
978-94-6252-359-3
ISSN
1951-6851
DOI
10.2991/icoi-17.2017.10How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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