Given the dearth of literature on the influence of religiosity on attitudes toward people with HIV/AIDS, the present study surveyed these variables in a sample of South African Muslim university students using the Religious Orientation Scale (ROS) and an attitude to people with HIV scale. Gender differences in attitudes towards people with HIV were also examined. The sample comprised 90 male an...

Online games represent a burgeoning market sector of increasing economic importance. However, most previous studies have focused on the utilitarian perspectives of the technology. In other words, there is limited the investigation to social influence on college students’ attitude. The aims of this study is to understand the effect of social influence on college students’ attitude in playing onl...

The study examined religiousity, perception and attitude towards condom use among Christian youths in Ile Ife, Nigeria with the aim of examining the implications on HIV/AIDs. A structured questionnaire based on Likert-type scales was employed to rate respondents’ attitudes. A total of 260 youths were interviewed, but 210 (80.8%) were found to be sexually active as at the time of the survey. Tho...

BACKGROUND Non-consensual sex (NCS) among young people, an important subject with public health and human rights implications, was less studied in China. This study is to investigate the NCS awareness and victimization of university students in Shanghai, China and whether they were associated with adolescent gender-role attitudes. METHODS Gender-role attitudes, awareness and victimization of ...

This study investigates the demand side of the piracy problem of music CDs in Malaysia. The findings demonstrate the applicability of the modified Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) in predicting buying attitude towards pirated CDs though social influences and consumers' personality characteristics. Results show that normative susceptibility, integrity, gender and personal income were significant ...

In this paper, we report some findings of a study on attitude and mathematics achievement at the senior secondary school level in Botswana. We adopted a new methodology in the analysis of the relationship between attitude, gender bias and achievement in mathematics with gender as a dummy variable. The method, quantile regression (QReg), was used because it unveils the relationship at the quanti...

The toy is an object of play, but at the same time, it a product that reflects gender roles and carries traces from social norms. Social perception, influences directs consumption practices. For this reason, choice should be evaluated on sociological basis. In study, parents' attitudes towards shopping for their children will reflection these examined. aim to analyze indicators such as color sh...

In the era of gender equality, females’ work competency is praised and valued in the modern workplace, and physical gender becomes insignificant. However, does the difference of gender roles influence workers’ performance in the work environment? It is an important question. Hence, this study probed into relationship between gender roles, and job stress, and treats the Adversity Quotient as mod...

This article explores the relation of age to manifestations and antecedents of attitude strength. Three studies demonstrate that susceptibility to attitude change is greater during early and late adulthood than during middle adulthood. Three additional studies demonstrate that attitude importance, certainty, and perceived quantity of attitude-relevant knowledge are greater in middle adulthood t...