Motivation for pilgrimage: using theory to explore motivations
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
The Use of the Modified Protection Motivation Theory to Explore Adult Consumers’ Functional Foods Consumption Behavior
Functional foods are the fastest growing sector of the food market because of consumers’ growing interest in health and well-being. There were two objectives of this study. One was to examine the relationships among concepts in the Modified Protection Motivation Theory (MPMT): severity, vulnerability, response-efficacy, self-efficacy, intention, and behavior in regard to functional foods. The o...
متن کاملUsing AdleriAn Theory To shed lighT on drUg deAler MoTivATions
Drug dealer motivation is traditionally attributed to individual greed or social structural pressures resulting from poor social conditions or blocked opportunities. To date, few scholars have seriously considered that underlying personality characteristics might shape an individual’s decisions to participate in the illegal drug market. This paper builds upon the tenets of Adlerian Individual P...
متن کاملUsing Schema Theory To Explore Interactions Of Multiple Operators
In the last two years the schema theory for Genetic Programming (GP) has been applied to the problem of understanding the length biases of a variety of crossover and mutation operators on variable length linear structures. In these initial papers, operators were studied in isolation. In practice, however, they are typically used in various combinations, and in this paper we present the first sc...
متن کاملUsing mediational models to explore the nature of tobacco motivation and tobacco treatment effects.
Various theories have proposed mechanisms for drug motivation and relapse. For instance, negative reinforcement theories focus on the alleviation of withdrawal. However, other theories and some data cast doubt on the importance of withdrawal as a motivator of addictive drug use. Using data from a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled smoking cessation treatment study (N=608), this research...
متن کاملMotivation of Virtual Goods Transactions Based on the Theory of Gaming Motivations
In recent years, there is an increasingly growth in the transactions of virtual goods among online game players. Few studies have examined the perceived values of virtual goods and how gaming motivation drives the purchase of virtual goods. In this paper, we took one popular online game “World of Warcraft” as a case study, using structural equation model, and explored the relationship between g...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis
سال: 2010
ISSN: 2343-4937,0582-3226
DOI: 10.30674/scripta.67360