background: the internet addiction, also described as pathological internet use (piu), is conceptualized by an individual's in­ability to control his or her use of the internet, which eventually causes marked distress and/or functional impairment. the aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of the piu among adolescence, in relation to different internet ac­tivities, and to ex...

Six factors with 42 elements were identified to examine the influences of demographic variables and attitudes towards the acceptance of internet banking in Malaysia using a Likert scale questionnaire. Results revealed that all elements for each factor are significant, except for design factors; whilst convenience and securities were the most important attributes influencing the inclination to a...

The present study was conducted to investigate whether forced-choice questions would lead to any particular tendency in young children’s responses. Two experiments were conducted in which 3to 5-year-olds children were shown a short animation and then were asked a set of two-option, forced-choice questions. Consistent findings were obtained: (i) Forced-choice questions influenced children’s resp...

In classical mixture models for ordinal data with an uncertainty component the uniform distribution is used to model indecision. In the approach proposed here the discrete uniform distribution is replaced by a more flexible distribution, which is centered in the middle of the response categories. The resulting model allows to distinguish between a tendency to middle categories and a tendency to...

Climate is the most important factor which control desertification .In order to detect climate changes in desert zones, time trend analysis is applied to extreme indices in Kashan station using extreme climate index software (ECIS). Results show significant trends in extreme indices during the past decade 1995-2004 and the pronounced warming is associated with a negative trend in cold extremes....

conclusions this internet infidelity questionnaire is a valid and reliable tool to assess the betrayed partner of internet infidelity. this questionnaire can justify 65.89 percent of common variance. results exploratory factor analysis was conducted on obtained data, resulting in a persian internet infidelity questionnaire with 43 items as well as three main factors. background today the intern...