BACKGROUND Patient empowerment is growing in popularity and application. Due to the increasing possibilities of the Internet and eHealth, many initiatives that are aimed at empowering patients are delivered online. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to evaluate whether Web-based interventions are effective in increasing patient empowerment compared with usual care or face-to-face interventions. ME...

objective: the present study aimed at examining the effect of multidimensional motivation interventions based on martin's model on cognitive and behavioral components of motivation. methods: the research design was prospective with pretest, posttest, and follow-up, and 2 experimental groups. in this study, 90 students (45 participants in the experimental group and 45 in the control group) const...

This study aimed to examine the relationship between pregnancy stress and anxiety and to explore the mediating sense of mastery in this relationship among high-risk pregnant women in Korea. The data were collected between March 3 and March 30, 2015, from 118 high-risk pregnant women through structured questionnaires. Collected data were analyzed using the IBM SPSS Statistics 22 program. The med...

We examined the development of self-esteem in adolescence and young adulthood. Data came from the Young Adults section of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, which includes 8 assessments across a 14-year period of a national probability sample of 7,100 individuals age 14 to 30 years. Latent growth curve analyses indicated that self-esteem increases during adolescence and continues to inc...

BACKGROUND Earlier studies have shown that people with low level of education have increased rates of mental health problems. The aim of the present study is to investigate the association between level of education and psychological distress, and to explore to which extent the association is mediated by sense of mastery, and social variables like social support, negative life events, household...

Computer self-efficacy (CSE) is a key factor that is related to performance in computer training. A study was conducted to understand the effects of achievement goal orientation on computer self efficacy development with 166 trainees using a database application. Results show that trainees with different achievement motivation dispositions have affects on CSE development through different paths...

The role of mastery, self-efficacy expectancies and neuroticism in explaining individual differences in physical and psychological adjustment to cardiac disease was studied in 208 patients. Premorbid data were available from a community-based survey in the Netherlands. Hierarchical linear regression analyses showed that self-efficacy expectancies at baseline were significantly related to adjust...

The concept “cool”, as it applies to technological products, is discussed in this paper. We offer a model showing how different factors in situated use of techno-cools affect the perception of coolness. The model is discussed using a case of the iPad in educational use. The case is grounded in our experience from four case studies related to introduction of the iPad as a cool educational tool i...