purpose: the present paper aims to relate self-efficacy as an important psychological construct to information literacy as an essential requisite of the information society.methodology: reviewing related literature in communication, sociology, information science and computer science.findings: self-efficacy could increase interest, efforts, enjoy, self-regulation and performance. it is consider...

promising option for interface development because they allow us to draw on communication and interaction styles with which humans are already familiar. In this contribution, we revisit some of our past and ongoing projects to motivate an evolution of character-based presentation systems. This evolution starts from systems in which a character presents information content in the style of a TV p...

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...

Applications of psychology to sports and athletics are numerous. They focus both on the individual athlete and on the tram. Psychology is increasingly involved with athletes, coaches, and trainers to enhance athletic performance through improved physical and mental training. Knowledge of psychology is essential for understanding each individual's motivation and developing that motivation to an ...

Network traffic processes can exhibit properties of self-similarity and long-range dependence, i.e., correlations over a wide range of time scales. However, as already shown by several authors for the case of a single queue, the second-order behavior at time scales beyond the so-called correlation horizon or critical time scale does not significantly affect network performance. In this work, we...

the purpose of this paper is to study how the characteristics of successful managers are somehow related to their programme in co-operatives. the study shows there is a significant relationship between managers' characteristics such as innovation, authority and leadership, with managerial skills, self confidence and degree of success. however, there is no correlation between intelligence, ...