Based on technology acceptance theory, the authors examined the effect of perceived enjoyment and gender on the intention to continue using mobile Internet services (MIS) in an everyday life context. A survey was conducted among 623 current MIS users to test the structural equation model. Their findings confirm the effect of perceived enjoyment on MIS continuance intention as well as the modera...

AIM To examine to what extent personality traits (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness), organizational stress, and attitudes toward work and interactions between personality and either organizational stress or attitudes toward work prospectively predict 3 components of burnout. METHODS The study was carried out on 118 hospital nurses. Data were analyzed b...

BACKGROUND A nurse's commitment is the most important factor that influences her performance and depends on other variables. The purpose of this research was to study the relationship between length of service of the nurses with the amount of occupational commitment and organizational commitment. METHODS From Winter 2012 to Spring 2013, 266 nurses were chosen in selected hospitals of Social S...

Objective of the Study Existing studies of consumer behaviours in mobile games have largely focused on pre-adoption phase while completely ignored the post-adoption behaviours. Additionally, while intrinsic factors such as perceived enjoyment is often reckoned as one of the most important factors affecting consumer behaviours in gaming context, little research has attempted to understand their ...

Although ASP (Application Service Provider) has the potential to fundamentally change the manner in which IT services are provided for user firms, current ASPs often fail to provide good results in accumulating and retaining customers. To fill the gap between the expected benefits of application service and its disappointing results in the real world, we present a conceptual model including thr...

Continued usage of information systems (or, IS continuance) has proven to be a critical success parameter for ICT implementation at the top of the global economic pyramid. However, there are few studies which have explored continued IS usage at the bottom of the economic pyramid (BOP) though it represents the majority of the world's population. To fill this knowledge gap, this study develops an...

Most studies on technology adoption and usage continuance examine cognitive factors, leaving affective factors or the feelings of users relatively unexplored. In contrast, researchers in the diverse fields of human–computer interaction, medicine, psychology and marketing have begun to note the importance of feelings in understanding and predicting human behavior. Feelings are anticipated to be ...

This research examines the conceptualizations of system use and its impact on continuance intention to use Facebook. We investigate the relationship between the user, system and task aspect of system use, in the light of numerous calls to explore this construct. A cross-sectional survey of Facebook users was undertaken. This research shows that the user/task aspect of use has a higher relations...

The purpose of this research is to evaluate the continuance usage intention on online healthcare community (OHC) platform for patients and examine "doctor-OHC-patient" relationship. proposed model attempted integrate social interaction ties, shared value, trust with indirect effects relationship between determinants continuous OHC platform. empirical results showed that perceived critical mass,...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine the suitable treatment period in patients who achieve virological response during combination therapy of peginterferon and ribavirin for chronic hepatitis C virus infection. METHODS Inclusion criteria were HCV-genotype 1b, serum HCV RNA level of > or =100 KIU/ml before treatment, and negativity of serum HCV RNA during treatment. The 366 patient...