Significant work has been initiated on trust in ecommerce settings, but little research has addressed distrust. Because of its connection to the insecurities that are found in risky situations, disposition to distrust is particularly suited to addressing issues of high risk, while disposition to trust is better suited for low risk issues. High risk issues include: a) perceptions that the Web is...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study was to identify variables that predicted three different dispositions of patients seen in a psychiatric emergency room: hospitalization, an emergency housing program, and an outpatient crisis program. METHODS Social, psychiatric, demographic, and vocational characteristics of 50 patients in each disposition group were examined to learn whether they varied su...

BACKGROUND The choice of antibiotics to treat community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is primarily empiric, and the effect of this choice on length of stay (LOS) and mortality is largely unknown. OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of antibiotic choice on these outcomes in general medical patients hospitalized with CAP. METHODS One hundred patients hospitalized with CAP were prospectively identified...

BACKGROUND In any country, part of the population is sceptical about the utility of vaccination. To develop successful vaccination programmes, it is important to study and understand the defining characteristics of vaccine sceptics. Research till now mainly focused either on the underlying motives of vaccine refusal, or on socio-demographic differences between vaccine sceptics and non-sceptics....

This study was conducted to investigate the correlations between social–emotional competence (SEC) and academic achievement (AA) among nursing students compare students’ level of each core skill SEC (critical thinking disposition, self-directed learning, creativity, emotional intelligence, problem-solving, collaboration) (clinical performance subjective achievement). A cross-sectional design ad...

<p style="text-align: justify;">This study aims to analyze the characteristics of social skills, digital literacy disposition, and mathematical abilities 49 students; theoretical model direct indirect influence skills on skills. The number samples is 12th-grade students at state high school #1 Southern Konawe. research instruments consisted a ability test, questionnaire, disposition quest...

In the aftermath of Western colonization is the trivialization of skin color as significant issue in the psychology of peoples of African descent. Although social scientists use race as a key factor in elucidating and understanding human social conditions, skin color and its impact on the social and psychological disposition of people of African descent have been understudied. Oblivious to the ...