AbstractDeveloping self-regulated learners has been the life-long ambition of different stakeholders in education. This study was set out to find the relationships between self-regulated strategies as defined by time and resource management, cognitive and metacognitive strategies, achievement goals classified as mastery, performance-approach and performance-avoidance, and the listening ac...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors influencing the adoption of the online public grievance redressal system (OPGRS) in the Indian context. This e-government initiative is based on the government’s long term strategic policy that aims to reform and overhaul the Indian bureaucracy. The model developed is based on the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) and ...

This paper provides a better understanding of the impact of e-quality on customer satisfaction which leads to the retention of loyal customers to airline e-ticketing websites. In this paper website quality is divided into three levels including: “website performance”, “website information” and “website online service”. Three sets of E-SERVQUAL criteria are chosen following a review of prior air...

Received: 12 June 2006 Revised: 10 May 2007 Accepted: 22 July 2007 Abstract Although there is widespread agreement that leadership has important effects on information technology (IT) acceptance and use, relatively little empirical research to date has explored this phenomenon in detail. This paper integrates the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) with charismatic leader...

The relation between academic race stereotype endorsement and academic self-concept was examined in two studies of seventh- and eighth-grade African Americans. Based on expectancy-value theory, the authors hypothesized that academic race stereotype endorsement would be negatively related to self-perceptions. Furthermore, it was anticipated that the relation between stereotype endorsement and se...

User acceptance is a precondition for successful implementation of hospital information systems (HISs). Increasing investment in information technology by healthcare organisations internationally has made user acceptance an important issue in technology implementation and management. Despite the increased focus on hospital information systems, there continues to be user resistance. The present ...

Considerable evidence suggests that personality traits may be changeable, raising the possibility that personality traits most linked to health problems can be modified with intervention. A growing body of research suggests that problematic personality traits may be altered with behavioral intervention using a bottom-up approach. That is, by targeting core behaviors that underlie personality tr...