BACKGROUND Smoking is a serious health threat and identifying risk factors for smoking is thus of great importance. The aim of the study was to examine the effects of social-cognitive factors and school factors on lifetime smoking status among adolescents. METHODS The study was based on cross-sectional data on 2,913 Danish adolescents in grade 7 attending 118 randomly selected public schools....

Cyberspace refers to new tools for marketers to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of marketing communications and offer new approaches to gain and retain customers. One of its aspects is online interpersonal influences. It can be said that viral marketing is an internet-based communication strategy that exploits the transmittable nature of information dissemination on the Internet. This ...

This paper explains physicians’ acceptance, in terms of usage intentions, of one of the most relevant eHealth services or applications: Electronic Health Care Records (EHCR). For this purpose, the original structure of the Technology Acceptance Model (Davis et al. 1989: 985), which included perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, attitude, and usage intention, is extended with trust and ri...

purpose: the main objective of this research is the development of technology acceptance model (tam) by measuring the effects of self-efficacy beliefs and dysfunctional attitude of users on the acceptance of mashhad university of medical sciences information system (pazhoohan) based on social cognitive approach. methodology: this study used a survey method. the sample of study consisted of 248 ...

This study examines the relationship between both first language (L1) and second language (L2) reading attitudes, and learners' performance in L2 extensive reading. Four reading attitude variables were identified (Comfort, Anxiety, Value, Self-perception), both in L1 and L2, according to learners' responses to a questionnaire. Results of analyses using these four variables are summarised on two...

AIM This study examined the long-term cognitive and educational outcomes of being born small for gestational age (SGA) and assessed whether the family's attitude towards education modified the effect of being born SGA on educational attainment. METHODS We used anonymised data on 9598 individuals from the Stockholm Birth Cohort. This study focused on babies born in 1953 in the Stockholm metrop...

Two experiments were conducted to examine whether attitudes based on affect or cognition were more susceptible to persuasive appeals that matched versus mismatched the basis of attitudes. Experiment 1 provided evidence for a relative affective/cognitive persuasion matching effect and suggested that this matching effect could not be accounted for by attribute matching rather than affective/cogni...

Research into permission-based mobile marketing is increasingly common due to the widespread adoption of mobile technology and its use as a communication channel. Yet few studies have attempted to analyze the factors that determine attitudes toward mobile advertising while simultaneously considering: the links among them and consumers' intentions, behavior, and/or cognitive and affective variab...