OBJECTIVE This study aims at determining factors related to the intention to participate and actual participation in social support groups for prostate cancer patients, using the framework of the theory of planned behavior. The factors studied are background variables, medical variables, psychosocial variables and attitude, social norms and perceived control. METHODS From various sources, 238...

BACKGROUND Poor nutrition habits in adolescent girls endanger their health and are followed by serious systemic diseases in adulthood and negative effects on their reproductive health. To design health promotion programs, understanding of the intra- and interpersonal associated factors with treatment is essential, and this was the aim of this study. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional ...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of social influence on college students’ attitude and behavior to play online game by examining the moderating effect of gender. First, a two-stage sampling was proceeded to send out 300 questionnaires, including 211 valid questionnaires and 89 invalid questionnaires. According to the result analysis, social influence significantly influenc...

background: stigma is one of the obstacles in the treatment and regaining the mental health of people with mental illness. the aim was determination of mental illness stigma among nurses in psychiatric wards. this study was conducted in psychiatric wards of teaching hospitals in tabriz, urmia, and ardabil in the north-west of iran. materials and methods: this research is a descriptive analysis ...

People care passionately about some attitudes and consider them deeply important, and they accord no particular significance to other attitudes. In the current paper, we review the state of the psychological literature on attitude importance. We consider the factors that cause people to attach importance to some attitudes but not to others, and we review the cognitive, affective, and behavioral...

INTRODUCTION Electronic medical record system (EMRS) is a valuable system for safe access to the patient's data and increases health care quality. Manpower is one of the requirements for EMRS, among which manager is the most important person in any hospital. Taking into account manager's positive attitude and good commitments, EMRS will be implemented successfully. As such, we decided to assess...

The emerging social networking technology demonstrates as a promising technology that fosters user interaction and information communication. This research attempts to investigate how product attitude forms on online review sites with social networks. The implementation of social networking technology on online review sites can challenge our prior understanding about the weak tie assumption of ...

Attitudes and attitude change remain core topics of contemporary social psychology. This selective review emphasizes work published from 2005 to 2009. It addresses constructionist and stable-entity conceptualizations of attitude, the distinction between implicit and explicit measures of attitude, and implications of the foregoing for attitude change. Associative and propositional processes in a...

The relations we have with others influence in a very subtle way our body gestures. These are cues that are used in an interaction in an unconscious process to communicate and understand an attitude. Depending on the gestures and facial signals one is displaying, a social attitude can be perceived. In this paper, we propose to model socio-emotional agents and how they can express such an attitu...