The purpose of this study is to examine the link between learning motivation among teaching trainees and selfefficacy and the rate of participation in choosing the profession of teaching. The main assumptions: There will be a clear positive link between the rate of self-efficacy of students and academic motivation, with its various elements. There will be a clear positive link between the rate ...

Self-efficacy is an individual’s belief about her ability to perform well in a given situation. Because self-efficacious students are effective learners, endowing intelligent tutoring systems with the ability to diagnose selfefficacy could lead to improved pedagogy. Self-efficacy is influenced by (and influences) affective state. Thus, physiological data might be used to predict a students’ lev...

Recent years have witnessed burgeoning interest in the use of computers as novel tools in the field of education. But practically speaking there is still the need for resolving the hidden psychological barriers of the teachers (computer anxiety, lack of computer selfefficacy etc) who are entrusted with the responsibility to use ICT in classroom. Computer self efficacy means one’s perception of ...

The learners’ motivation has an impact on the quality of learning, no matter how it is provided, be it via classroom, eLearning or blended learning. So far, in e-Learning, motivation has been mainly considered in terms of instructional design. Research in this direction suggests several ways to improve learners’ motivation. However, we claim that even more could be done: while being well known ...

The implementation of Enterprise Recourse Planning (ERP) systems has grown rapidly, but limited research has been conducted to investigate the utilization of ERP systems. By extending the Technology Acceptance Model, this paper provides a research model for examining the impact of computer selfefficacy and ERP systems design features on the utilization of ERP systems. To test the proposed resea...

This study makes an integrated investigation on how life satisfaction is associated with the Korean game users' psychological variables (self-esteem, game and life selfefficacy), social variables (bonding and bridging social capital), and demographic variables (age, gender). The data used for the empirical analysis came from a representative sample survey conducted in South Korea. Results show ...

The purpose of this research is to examine the relationships between changes to computer selfefficacy (CSE) and computer anxiety and the impact on performance on computer-related tasks in both online and face-to-face mediums. While many studies have looked at these factors individually, relatively few have included multiple measures of these factors concurrently and assessed the effects over a ...

Since the service-oriented ERP systems have become essential to SMEs, the service quality of IS characteristics and the user’s internal expectations are considered the key factors of ERP success. With the purpose of understanding how service quality influences user’s satisfaction through psychological constructs, based on the Social Cognitive Theory and the framework of D&M IS Success Model, th...

Falls in older individuals can be caused by balance disorders, influenced predictive factors based on self-efficacy and outcome expectation. This study investigated the relationship between related to regional neural functional activity postural control. We included 16 men (average age, 76.4±5.8 years) evaluated their balancing ability fall-related selfefficacy using Japanese version of Mini-Ba...

We integrate psychological and socio-structural perspectives on empowerment by examining: a) the impact of actual structural empowerment initiatives (as opposed to perceptions of such empowering acts) aimed at enhancing employee influence over which tasks to perform (as opposed to how to perform them) on employee well-being and performance, b) the degree to which selfefficacy mediates these eff...