Objective To determine the prevalence of, and factors associated with, tobacco use among 16-19 year old students from rural Sri Lanka. Basic research design A cross-sectional study where the data were collected by means of a pre-tested self-administered questionnaire. Participants 390, 16-19 year old students selected from 9 schools in Ampara education zone. Results Nearly 22% of the samp...

Via a large scale cross-sectional study among Japanese white color workers, the authors aimed to elucidate: (1) the distributions of Sense of Coherence (SOC), which reflect stress coping abilities, (2) the distributions of Life experience; (3) and the association between SOC and Life experience. Anonymous self-administered questionnaires were sent to 15,891 in 2001 and 21,922 in 2011 employees ...

This paper empirically examines the impact of socioeconomic determinants upon the adoption of a recent UK e-Government initiative, the „Government Gateway‟. Five socio-economic characteristics that provide insights to Government Gateway adopters and non-adopters, as they were identified from the literature review used in this study. These included age, gender, education, income and occupation. ...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between shame and guilt to aspects of psychological well-being such as self-esteem and social connectedness in Irish adults. Data was collected from 115 adults; 39 males and 76 females between the ages of 18 and 52. An online questionnaire was administered incorporating the State Shame and Guilt Scale (Marshall, Sanfner & Tangney,...