IS continuance is important for IS providers to increase both their revenues and profits, and to achieve success. With the penetration of SNS into people’ lives, SNS has attracted the attentions of IS researchers and become a hot topic. This study develops a model to explore the factors determining individuals’ continuous intention and use of SNS. Based on 221 useful questionnaires, the researc...

The success of an online community relies on the willingness of its members to be a part of and continuously participate within the community. In other words, online communities are successful if members continuously contribute knowledge to the community. In Information System research, few studies exist examining the determinants of continuous knowledge contribution. This paper fills the gap b...

Background: Clinical depression has been increasingly prevalent in international health statistics but people are often found to be reluctant to seek help when they encounter depression. However, there is no general theory to explain how personal, social and cultural factors affect an individual’s help-seeking intention, nor to guide the design of preventive programmes for such intention once n...

Little is known about the motivational background of smoking after a period of nicotine abstinence during pregnancy. The study examines the intention to resume smoking (IRS) in the post-partum period and its predictive value for smoking within 12 months post-partum. In a sample of 301 women recruited from obstetric wards who reported having stopped smoking during pregnancy, data on IRS, sociode...

Location privacy-preserving mechanisms (LPPMs) have been extensively studied for protecting users' location privacy by releasing a perturbed to third parties such as location-based service providers. However, when user's locations are released continuously, existing LPPMs may not protect the sensitive information about real-world activities, “visited hospital in last week” or “regularly commuti...

BACKGROUND When developing an effective early preventive strategy for employees and students with CANS (Complaints of Arm, Neck or Shoulder, not caused by acute trauma or systemic disease), insight in help seeking behaviour and knowledge of factors associated with help seeking behaviour within the target population, is a prerequisite. The aim of this study was to examine whether perceived hindr...

This study examines the role of continuous trust (i.e., trust which develops over time as a result of continuing interactions) in determining a user’s continuing intention to use Internet banking services. This study stands in contrast to the large majority of research concerning trust and IT adoption, in that it focuses on continuous trust (as opposed to initial trust) and on a user’s continui...