The aim of this research was to examine attitudinal barriers to the employment of Taiwanese older workers (aged 60 and above). Face-to-face interviews were conducted to collect data using structured questionnaires from a sample of full-time employees (N= 258). We found that: (1) positive attitudes toward older people in general, perceived subjective norm, and traditional Chinese cultural values...

Understanding the user acceptance of mobile social networking apps can provide powerful insights for managers and marketers of social networking apps to design effective strategies to attract users. Following the Theory of Planned Behavior, this study develops a research model of privacy concern, privacy risk, and perceived enjoyment as attitudinal beliefs, subjective norm as normative belief, ...

This study investigated the undergraduates’ embedment with, and embracement of social networking sites (SNS) with a modified theory of planned behavior (TPB). It is recognized that social influence, perceived behavioral control, enjoyment, as well as embracement and embedment, are pertinent to the discourse. Data was collected from undergraduates in four (4) culturally diverse countries. Hypoth...

This study aims to determine the effect of individual attitude, subjective norm, and perception behavioral control on travel intentions during Covid-19 pandemic. Respondents in this were students Special Region Yogyakarta who wanted Data collection techniques carried out using questionnaires distributed through google forms 205 respondents obtained. The results prove that attitude have a positi...

This study aims to determine the factors that influence interest in saving SMAK Garum Seminary students, Blitar Regency. research method is quantitative, this explanatory research. The population used were students of Garum, data analysis technique PLS-SEMM using SmartPLS 3 for Windows 10 V3.2. and Microsoft Excel 2016. results show financial literacy variable (X1) on (Y) has a path coefficient...

Swimming at patrolled beaches reduces the likelihood of drownings and near-drownings. The present study tested the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), with the addition of risk perceptions, in predicting people's intentions to swim between the flags at patrolled beaches. We examined also the predictors of people's willingness to swim [1] up to 10 m and [2] more than 10 m outside of the patrol fl...

Obtaining norm scores for subjective properties of words can be quite cumbersome as it requires a considerable investment proportional to the size of the word set. We present a method to predict norm scores for large word sets from a word association corpus. We use similarities between word pairs, derived from this corpus, to construct a semantic space. Starting from norm scores for a subset of...

Being excluded and ignored has been shown to threaten fundamental human needs and cause pain. Such reflexive reactions to social exclusion have been conceptualized as direct and unmoderated (temporal need threat model, Williams, 2009). Here we propose an extension and argue that reflexive reactions depend on how social exclusion situations are construed. If being excluded is understood as a vio...