This study concentrates on two assumptions of a social-cognitive model outlining the development of academic emotions (emotions directly linked to learning, classroom instruction, and achievement), namely on their antecedents and domain-specific organization. Our sample consisted of 200 students from Grades 7 to 10. Proposed relationships concerning the antecedents of academic emotions were tes...

The success of enterprise system (ES), to a great extent, depends on users’ learning outcomes, which in turn, are determined by motivation and cognitive ability. Given the central role played by motivation, this paper applies the goal-setting theory and the expectancy theory to investigate the antecedents and consequence of users’ commitment to the goal of learning how to effectively apply ES. ...

This paper discusses the concept of prosocial involvement as a positive youth development construct. How prosocial involvement is defined and how the different theories conceptualize prosocial involvement are reviewed. Antecedents of prosocial involvement such as biological traits, personality, cognitive and emotional processes, socialization experience, culture, and their social context are ex...

There is little consensus regarding the circumstances in which people spontaneously generate causal inferences, and in particular whether they generate inferences about the causal antecedents or the causal consequences of events. We tested whether people systematically infer causal antecedents or causal consequences to minimal social scenarios by using a continuation methodology. People overwhe...

Privacy is a highly dynamic concept and individuals with distinct life experiences and knowledge can perceive it differently. Despite the advances made by past IS research, little is still known about the antecedents of Privacy Concerns Related to IT (PCIT), their formation, and the relationship between general PCIT and PCIT regarding specific technologies. In an effort to address these knowled...

Wearable fitness devices are equipped with internet connectivity and capable of tracking, storing, transmitting health data. A research model is proposed tested, which shows how cognitive, affective, social, motivational consumer factors affect the intention to adopt wearables, respectively. The antecedents these also studied, including perceived usefulness, ease use, effectiveness for cognitiv...

Part of the reason for the lack of literature addressing the antecedents of game play (rather than the outcome) was that it was perceived as being a technologically deterministic approach. Social scientists wish to believe that human behavior is something that can be cognitively. This paradigm has led most of the research on media effects, which examine socio-psychological factors that are uniq...