the aim of this study was to investigate those factors influencing the enjoyment of sport management masters of iran universities of technology and its comparison with turkey universities. the statistical sample consisted of 84 and 66 sport management masters from iran and turkey respectively. the method of research was descriptive and analytical survey. the standard questionnaire (?=0.81) at t...

The present experiment examines the effects of extraversion and consumption of alcohol on facial and verbal indicators of humor-induced positive affect. Sixty one female students were placed into one of three alcohol conditions (no ethanol, low dose, high dose) and were exposed to 30 slides containing jokes or cartoons. Facial measurements of smiling and laughter, funniness and aversiveness of ...

The authors investigated the effects of violent portrayals in movie previews on viewers’ arousal and anticipated enjoyment of movies based on their arousal-seeking tendencies. A total of 159 college students watched 6 movie previews, each in a violent or nonviolent version, and reported their expectations of enjoying watching the movies. The results show that high arousal seekers reported a hig...

The current paper examines user satisfaction with the social use of instant messaging in building and maintaining social relationships among friends, family members and others. By integrating motivation theory with media capacity theories, we developed and tested a research model to explain how the attributes of media capacity (e.g., social presence and media richness) and users’ intrinsic and ...

Online music streaming services have become popular in listening to music. Most online music streaming services employ the freemium business model. The specific gratifications from online music streaming are not well understood. Moreover, research examining the freemium model from a user experience perspective remains scant. We employ uses and gratifications theory and examine four gratificatio...

Reading is one of the most important skills in our information society. It is also a well-studied topic in educational research. However, most previous studies have either focused on the cognitive domain of reading (e.g., reading comprehension), or the motivational domain (e.g., reading enjoyment). The research described in this thesis studies both domains as they are inextricably connected. Th...

Eight studies assessed the motive for sensory pleasure (MSP) involving a general disposition to enjoy and pursue pleasant nature-related experiences and avoid unpleasant nature-related experiences. The stated enjoyment of pleasant sights, smells, sounds, and tactile sensations formed a unitary construct that was distinct from sensation seeking, novelty preference, and need for cognition. MSP wa...

This study aimed to examine the impact of health workers' public service motivation during their participation in response Covid-19 pandemic at a time highest number infections and deaths Vietnam. was conducted through cross-sectional survey using an intentional sampling technique (n=200). In addition, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) applied illustrate proposed hypotheses. We found that comp...

The article proposes a theoretical framework in which moral reasoning about mediated crime and punishment is defined and combined with existing, affect-driven entertainment theory to yield an integrated theory of enjoyment. The authors analyze how crime dramas serve as statements about justice and then address how moral deliberation about the propriety of those statements impacts enjoyment. The...

While evaluation studies in visualization often involve traditional performance measurements, there has been a concerted effort to move beyond time and accuracy. Of these alternative aspects, memorability and recall of visualizations have been recently considered, but other aspects such as enjoyment and engagement are not as well explored. We study the enjoyment of two different visualization m...