This study examined dropout behavior, using the conceptual framework of achievement goal theory. We hypothesized that dropout could be predicted by a high ego-oriented goal disposition in combination with a low perception of personal skill and the perception that the coach and sport peers maintained ego-oriented sport success criteria. The participants were 134 adolescent athletes involved in h...

Customer trust is the important case which is needed by company where this behaviour will determine to customer buying interest, especially for organic products that have different characteristic from common products. Actually, this product has not developed rapidly in Indonesia. Reviews from those phenomenon, so it is conducted the research on mediating impact of retail image as organic produc...

This study developed a research model based on the tricomponent attitude� model and explored factors influencing e-shoppers’ real purchase behaviors. This study showed that these determinants could be divided into positive and negative approaches. The research sample consisted of 385 valid respondents who are experienced users on Books.com.tw. This research study adopted the structural equation...

Childhood wasting is a global problem and is significantly more pronounced in low and middle income countries like Bangladesh. Socio Economic Status (SES) and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) practices may be significantly associated with wasting. Most previous research is consistent about the role of SES, but the significance of WASH in the context of wasting remains ambiguous. The effect ...

We perform a study of the nonperturbative dynamics of the light-quark sector of QCD, based on some recent results of lattice simulations with chiral fermions. We analyze some correlators that are designed to probe the Dirac structure of the quark-quark interaction at different scales. We show that, in the nonperturbative regime, such an interaction contains very large scalar and pseudoscalar co...

Since digital piracy has posed a significant threat to the development of the software industry and the growth of the digital media industry, it has, for the last decade, held considerable interest for researchers and practitioners. This article will propose an integrated model that combines the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and ethics theory, the two theories that are most often used in dig...

This paper examines the relationships between supplier development efforts and buyer competitive advantage from the buyer’s perspective, and seeks to understand how specific supplier development efforts may impact on a buyer’s operational performance. We conducted a survey of 142 electronics manufacturing companies in Hong Kong, and applied structural equation modeling (SEM) to test a structura...

In understanding how active and blended learning approaches with learning technologies engagement in undergraduate education, current research models tend to undermine the effect of learners’ variations, particularly regarding their styles and approaches to learning, on intention and use of learning technologies. This study contributes to further examine a working model for learning outcomes in...

A central objective in health and epidemiological research is to examine the processes by which explanatory variables yield certain outcomes. For example, two overarching, policy-relevant issues are (1) the pathways through which various socio-demographic, attitudinal, and behavioural risk factors lead to particular health outcomes (e.g., death, disease), and (2) the mechanisms through which in...