Active participation in economic and social settings increasingly demands social–communicative skills, i.e., interactive and interpersonal skills, as well as the networking skills to access and use resources provided by online social networks. The development of these skills both depends upon and determines the proficient and strategic use of social media and explicit participation in different...

The number of people with mental disorders living in the community has recently increased with further increases likely. This study provides a post-attitudinal examination of the discursive resources on which ordinary New Zealanders draw when talking about 'community care'. Four common resources were identified: dual community, rights, disorder and patronization. Each of these resources is exam...

Absenteeism findings published by Steel and Rentsch (1995) were replicated and extended by correlating attitudinal, personal-demographic, and job stress variables with 34 months of work group absenteeism scores obtained on employees of a U.S. federal mint. Attitudinal and job stress results were consistent with previous findings, but results involving personal-demographic variables were not.

This paper analyzed the differences of China’s political stance and attitude in response to recent China-US trade war epidemic war, provoked by United States, through comparing distribution metaphors as attitudinal resources regular speeches relevant these two events on official website Ministry Foreign Affairs within framework conceptual metaphor evaluation theory. Through analysis metaphorica...

English Abstract must be Times New The increasing penetration of mobile devices will lead to better use it in youth business. Mobile marketing has received less attention developing countries such as Iran. purpose this paper is investigate the predictors by expanding Unified Theory Acceptance and Use Technology (UTAUT2).The extended model additional factors including perceived risk, trust, mobi...

This study attempts to examine the effects of task characteristics and accountability on audit judgment. We found that when the audit task is less structured, such as in analytical reviews, auditors will manifest an attitudinal shift toward the preference of the agent to whom they are accountable. When the audit task is structured such as in internal control evaluations, an attitudinal shift wi...

• People can desire attitudes that differ in valence from their current attitude. • Actual–desired discrepancies lead people to feel ambivalent. • Discrepancies also reduce prediction of behavior and increase information interest. a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o The experience of attitudinal ambivalence (subjective ambivalence) is important because it predicts key consequences of attitude...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe a complex coaching intervention to help patients with cancer pain explore beliefs and attitudinal barriers interfering with pain management. Patients were coached to explore beliefs about pain, communications about pain management, and the use of analgesics and nonpharmacologic interventions. DATA SOURCES Published journal articles, abstracts, and psychology tex...

The influence of cultural background on people’s privacy decisions is widely recognized. However, a cross-cultural approach to predicting privacy decisions is still lacking. Our paper presents a first integrated cross-cultural privacy prediction model that merges cultural, demographic, attitudinal and contextual prediction. The model applies supervised machine learning to users’ decisions on th...

This paper describes experiments to use non-terminological information to find attitudinal expressions in written English text. The experiments are based on an analysis of text with respect to not only the vocabulary of content terms present in it (which most other approaches use as a basis for analysis) but also on structural features of the text as represented by presence of form words (in ot...