First-year students are challenged cognitively and socially by the need to integrate into a new environment. This article investigates role of peer as social resource for academic help-seeking overcome knowledge-related difficulties. Receiving useful help may require close regular contacts (social embeddedness) well awareness about peer’s knowledge (group awareness). Hence, effects embeddedness...

Personality factors such as time perspective and sensation-seeking have been shown to predict smoking uptake. However, little is known about the influences of these variables on quitting behavior, and no prior studies have examined the association cross-nationally in a large probability sample. In the current study it was hypothesized that future time perspective would enhance - while sensation...

Social virtual worlds (SVWs) are an emerging phenomenon in terms of numbers of users as well as business environments. When it comes to the economic viability of SVWs, keeping existing customers active, i.e. customer loyalty, is a sine qua non. In this paper we investigate customer loyalty with two key variables: continuous use intention and purchase intention. We apply the expanded expectation...

BACKGROUND At 44%, New Zealand has the highest proportion of international medical graduates (IMGs) in its workforce amongst OECD member countries. Around half of New Zealand's IMGs come from the UK NHS, yet only around 50% stay longer than 1 year post-registration with significant costs to the New Zealand health care system. Why these doctors go to New Zealand and do not stay for long is an im...

OBJECTIVES Relationships among cognitive and motivational factors in predicting medical help-seeking for Alzheimer's disease (AD) symptoms were tested. METHOD Community residents awaiting jury service (N = 280) completed questionnaires, including responses to a vignette depicting prototypical early symptoms of AD in a hypothetical mother. Cognitive responses to the vignette included AD sympto...

Though there is a high level of mental health related difficulties among university students, only one third of them seek psychological help despite the evidence-based treatments for mental health problems. Therefore, this paper examines the help seeking attitudes towards psychological help services and willingness to seek psychological help based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). Attitu...

Although organizations can derive competitive advantages from developing and implementing information systems, they are confronted with a rising number of unethical information practices. Because end-users and computer experts are the conduit of an ethical organizational environment, their intention to report unethical IT-related practices plays a critical role in protecting intellectual proper...

caesarean section is considered as a major surgery which is accompanied by several complications. the present study aimed to determine the effect of behavioral intention model-based educational intervention on reducing the caesarean section among pregnant women. the present interventional study was conducted on 100 primiparous women in the third trimester of pregnancy who were covered by the he...

One of the main characteristics post-Soviet transformation was religious resurgence. The purpose this paper is to analyse Islamic revival in 1990s. awakening Islam and seeking place for Muslims society significantly influenced formation today’s Russian Federation. authors examine factors that role newly created Russia federal government’s response its dynamics. divided into two parts. first par...