This article discusses how decentered understandings of addiction might benefit from ongoing debates in Lacanian psychoanalysis. Departing recent critiques critical studies, it claims that psychoanalysis offers a framework both challenges abstract, essentialist ontologies and recognises as valid phenomenon. Crucial to this is notion freedom linked the symbolic break with bodily enjoyment, which...

Extant literature has established a consistent association between aspects of reading motivation, such as enjoyment and self-perceived ability, and reading achievement, in that more motivated readers are generally more skilled readers. However, the developmental etiology of this relation is yet to be investigated. The present study explores the development of the motivation-achievement associat...

Continuance, in the information technology context, refers to sustained use of a technology by individual users over the longterm after their initial acceptance. In this research, we explore the role of enjoyment and subjective norms in continuance use of social networking services. A research model based on the IS continuance model was developed, and empirically analyzed using data from social...

was associated with a 28% lower risk of death even after these factors, as well as depression and health behaviors, had been taken into account. Other factors may be responsible for the remaining association between enjoyment and survival. It may be caused by unmeasured confounding factors such as other pre-existing illnesses. Only 3 health behaviors were assessed, and other aspects such as die...

Introduction: Identification of the factors that promote academicperformance is of importance in the success rate of medical students.This study aimed to find the relationship between emotions,motivation and academic performance of medical students.Methods: This descriptive-correlative study was conductedamong 370 medical students in Shiraz University of MedicalSciences using convenience sampli...

Twocross-sectional studies investigated the effects of competition andcooperationwith virtual players on exercise performance in an immersive virtual reality (VR) cycle exergame. Study 1 examined the effects of: (1) self-competition whereby participants played the exergamewhile competing against a replayof theirprevious exergame session (Ghost condition), and (2) playing the exergame with a vir...