Undoubtedly social influence in IS research is an issue that needs to be much more clearly examined. In order to assuage the wants for more research in this field we conducted a scientometric analysis of subjective norm in the IS top-journals of the JAIS ranking for the last two decades. In total 113 empirical and conceptual research models predominately in adoption research contained the facto...

in this study, attempts are made to recognize effective factors in enhancing the intension to use online stock trading application by real investors via combining the models of reasoned action and decomposed theory of planned behavior and merging it with dimensions of online stock trading. questionnaires designed and ditributed between 300 people attended in tehran stock exchange and agah broke...

In the history of adoption research, subjective norm mostly remains as the unloved child, being significant in this analysis and not significant in that analysis. Already Davis et al. had to exclude subjective norm of the Technology Acceptance Model due to theoretical and measurement problems. Overall the results of subjective norm as an antecedent for behavioral intention in IS research are qu...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to explore the relationship among subjective illness impact, subjective well-being, and psoriasis severity as assessed by dermatologists. Furthermore, subjective well-being of psoriasis patients was compared to available norm data. METHODS Fifty-nine psoriasis patients participated in this study. The following measures were administered: (a) the Pict...

OBJECTIVES Breastfeeding confers important health benefits to both infants and their mothers, but rates are low in the United Kingdom and other developed countries despite widespread promotion. This study examined the relationships between personal and vicarious experience of infant feeding, self-efficacy, the theory of planned behaviour variables of attitudes and subjective norm, and the likel...

Two studies were conducted to examine the impact of subjective uncertainty on conformity to group norms in the attitude-behaviour context. In both studies, subjective uncertainty was manipulated using a deliberative mindset manipulation (McGregor, Zanna, Holmes, & Spencer, 2001). In Study 1 (N=106), participants were exposed to either an attitude-congruent or an attitude-incongruent in-group no...