A study was conducted to test an expanded Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) in predicting healthy eating intention among adolescent boys and girls in mainland China. Two variables (perceived barriers and self-efficacy) were added in the TPB. A purposive sampling design was adopted to select schools, then students. Altogether 635 adolescents were asked to complete a structured questionnaire about...

Digital game-based learning, especially massively multiplayer online games, has been touted for its potential to promote student motivation and complex problem-solving competency development. However, current evidence is limited to anecdotal studies. The purpose of this empirical investigation is to examine the complex interplay between learners’ motivation, engagement, and complex problem-solv...

Tutorial dialogue has been the subject of increasing attention in recent years, and it has become evident that empirical studies of human-human tutorial dialogue can contribute important insights to the design of computational models of dialogue. This paper reports on a corpus study of human-human tutorial dialogue transpiring in the course of problemsolving in a learning environment for introd...

A coping model emphasizing the influence of stress, perception-related traits, and motivation on different coping strategies was tested in this study. The three strategies are problem-solving, social support-seeking, and avoidance. Participants were 332 college students in Taiwan. Variables involved in the model explained 29% of variance in problem-solving, 13% of variance in avoidance, and 9% ...

The psychometric properties of the Parent Self-efficacy in Managing the Transition to School Scale (PSMTSS) were investigated with a sample of 763 mothers whose children were starting primary school in Australia. Exploratory factor analysis identified two factors, Efficacy and Worry, accounting for 56.6% of the total variance in parent selfefficacy scores. These factors were demonstrated to hav...

This study aims to understand the fundamental factors influencing the citizen’s continuance intention to use eGovernment websites by using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) as a based theoretical model. Computer selfefficacy is adopted as an additional factor that influences the citizen’s continuance intention to use e-Government websites. To empirically test the proposed research model, th...

Numerous authors have suggested that the working relationship between coach and coachee constitutes an essential condition to the success of executive coaching. This study empirically investigated the links between the coach–coachee relationship and the success of a coaching intervention in an organizational setting. Data were collected from two samples: 73 managers who received executive coach...

The aim of this study was to explore relationships between students’ attitudes towards Mathematics, self-efficacy beliefs in problem-solving and achievement. The possibility of attitudes and selfefficacy to predict problem-solving performance was also examined. Attitude and efficacy scales were completed by 238 fifth-grade pupils. Problem-solving performance was measured by a specially prepared...

On-line customer research has been conducted for European and American markets by marketers and academics. Whilst e-Commerce and tourism develop rapidly in China, understanding of Chinese Internet travellers is required. This article investigates features of this on-line segment through a survey with 634 responses. It aims to establish segmental information and identify influential factors of e...

Using path analytic-techniques, the causal relationships in Bandura's model of self-efficacy were examined in a field setting. Male intercollegiate and interscholastic baseball players (N = 53) completed self-report measures over a nine-game period during the baseball season. Perceptions of self-efficacy, competitive state anxiety, effort expenditure, and objective hitting performance were meas...