This study examined the effects of creativity training on creative self-efficacy. We developed a creativity course based on social cognitive theory. The course was conducted in two formats: a five-day course and a condensed one-day course. Samples consisted of students and municipality employees (five-day course), and special education teachers (one-day course). Students from amathematics and s...

This paper investigates differences in how male and female students perceived a short message service (SMS) library catalog search service when adopting it. Based on a sample of 90 students, the results suggest that there are significant differences in perceived usefulness and intention to use but no significant differences in selfefficacy and perceived ease of use between genders. The findings...

This study investigates relationships between privacy concerns, uncertainty reduction behaviors, and self-disclosure among online dating participants, drawing on uncertainty reduction theory and the warranting principle. The authors propose a conceptual model integrating privacy concerns, self-efficacy, and Internet experience with uncertainty reduction strategies and amount of self-disclosure ...

Noa Aharony is a lecturer in the Department of Information Science at Bar-Ilan University; e-mail: [email protected]. The purpose of this research is to develop an understanding of the factors that support or constrain the individual’s sharing knowledge in the organization. The current study seeks to explore whether personality (selfefficacy and self-esteem) and situational (cognitive app...

This paper examines the linkage between the self-efficacy of public managers to employ information technology (IT) and managerial perceptions of IT effects on the operations of public organizations. A conceptual model posits that computer self-efficacy is influenced by several factors such as organizational support, IT usage within the organization, and experiential knowledge. Furthermore, comp...

The purpose of this article is to examine the contribution made by the selfefficacy component of A. Bandura’s (1986) social cognitive theory to the study of writing in academic settings. A brief overview of Bandura’s social cognitive theory and of self-efficacy is first provided, followed by a description of the manner in which writing self-efficacy beliefs are typically operationalized and ass...

The study examined task interdependence as a structural factor, which influences the emergence of collective-efficacy versus self-efficacy as a team level construct. It tested for the differential effects of selfand collective-efficacy on team performance, and the effects of initial perceptions of selfand collective-efficacy and record of past performance on the development of their subsequent ...

The purpose of this study was to examine and compare the level of happiness among male and female athlete students in Tehran University. The total number of 282 students (144 female and 138 male athletes) from Tehran University completed the Oxford Happiness questionnaire containing measures of study variables, validated inside the country. After distributing and collecting the questionnaires a...

This study explored whether sensorimotor experiences of cutting down a tree in a virtual forest would be more effective compared to mentally simulating the same experience in terms of increasing pro-environmental self-efficacy and behavior in the physical, non-mediated world. Two modalities for embodying the tree-cutting experience were compared: immersive virtual environment and mental simulat...

The purpose of this study was to confirm the relationships among teachers’ selfefficacy, and students’ learning motivation, learning atmosphere, and learning satisfaction in senior high school physical education (PE). A sample of 462 PE teachers and 2681 students was drawn using stratified random sampling and cluster sampling from high schools in Taiwan. The research instruments were the Teache...