The questionnaire was mailed to all full-time lecturing staff(n¼985)employed at the two universities.Subsequent to this mailing,ane-mail reminder to complete the questionnaire was then placed on the electronic notice boards of the two universities. Although participation in the study was voluntary and no other contact strategy was employed,357 useable questionnaires were returned.This rendered a response rate of approximately 36 percent.A total of 14cases with missingd at a were later dropped from some o fthe planned analyses. All analyses were performed using SPSS (Version 16.0).