OBJECTIVES This research studied motivations for, barriers to, and effects of online health information seeking and explored lay information mediary behavior (LIMB) characteristics in the consumer health information domain. Lay information mediaries (LIMs) seek information on behalf or because of others, without necessarily being asked to do so or engaging in follow up, and have represented mor...

BACKGROUND Childhood obesity is a major public health issue in many countries, including China. The importance of parenting relative to the healthy development of children requires the development of instruments for assessing parental influence on child dietary pattern. This study aimed to confirm the internal reliability and validity of a self-report measure on parental feeding styles, includi...

<i>Self-authorship describes holistic development in epistemological, intrapersonal, and interpersonal dimensions. Individuals who are self-authored have an integrated identity across all dimensions act from internally defined orientation. Developmentally effective experiences central to self-authorship create cognitive dissonance, prompting individuals reconsider their existing beliefs u...

Abstract We study the optimality of macroprudential policies in an environment where banks provide liquidity to firms. Informational frictions between can cause interbank market freezes, prompting firms accumulate their own liquid assets. Liquidity hoarding by turn reduces demand for bank loans and profitability, makes freezes even more likely, may ultimately trigger a self-fulfilling bad equil...

The hypermedia environment is among the most prevalent contemporary self-regulated learning (SRL) environments; however, methods for improving effectiveness of students’ multi-session SRL in such environments remain under discussion. In this study, two experiments were conducted to explore whether and how prompts feedback benefit performance during a environment. A total 76 senior students part...

BACKGROUND We assessed factors that might contribute to clinicians erroneously attributing medically based changes in a patient's mental status to psychiatric illness. METHODS Records of 1340 patients admitted to a VA hospital psychiatric unit and 613 to a public hospital psychiatric unit from 2001 to 2007 were reviewed. Cases admitted because of an unrecognized medical disorder underwent fur...

Recent research suggests that incubation is superior to metacognition in tasks involving many decision alternatives (Dijksterhuis et al., 2006). One explanation for these findings is the limited information processing capacity of working memory. The current study further investigates this topic by using more complex tasks as many errors in Dynamic Decision-Making (DDM) are thought to be related...

The limited instructional support in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) inherently demands learners to self-regulate their learning. MOOC research shows that are more successful when they engage self-regulated learning (SRL) behaviors such as planning what study and reviewing materials. However, many struggle with SRL. In this study, we examined the effect of two types SRL prompts (i.e., quest...

Open Learner Model (OLM) visualisations capture and display a learner’s learning state such as knowledge levels, progress, misconceptions. Exposing learners to their own models offers perspective about state. Numerous benefits have been reported include providing more opportunities for collaborate, enhancing outcomes, prompting be self-regulated. We describe new independent OLM tool, Doubtfire+...

This paper describes the assessment of MAPS (Memory Aiding Prompting System), a system that provides task support prompting to support independence for persons with cognitive disabilities and caregivers. MAPS consists of a handheld prompter and a multimedia editing tool for task script creation, storage, and modification. The need for ethnographic tool use is discussed and a short sub-set of th...