Abstract Background Teaching engineering at a high school level has been subject of substantial concern during recent curriculum reforms. Many countries are increasingly including engineering-focused subjects in their technology guidelines. However, teachers face challenges regarding the optimal implementation an curriculum. It is essential to understand teachers’ perceptions and behavior class...

In a randomized between-subjects design, participants (N = 80) were assigned to one of four conditions, 2 (pregnant, not pregnant) × 2 (extreme prime, moderate prime). It was hypothesized that primes involving moderate mental illness would be positively associated with increased perceived risk of developing postpartum depression. Hayes and Preacher's bootstrapping procedure was used to test the...

The ethical decision-making process begins when an individual recognizes an ethical dilemma. Subsequently, the individual makes a judgment and forms behavioral intentions, which are thought to be predictive of actual behavior. This process is affected by individual, situational and issue-contingent factors. Our study examines the effect of four issue contingencies on marketers’ ethical decision...

Adoption studies on electronic tax-filing system using data from emerging nations are rare. The present paper studies the influence of perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, and user satisfaction on taxpayers’ behavioral intentions to adopt electronic tax filing services in an emerging economy. For this study, constructs from Theory of Planned Behavior (Ajzen, 1985, 1991), Technology Acce...

The present research explores the relationship between anticipated emotions and pro-environmental decision making comparing two differently valenced emotions: anticipated pride and guilt. In an experimental design, we examined the causal effects of anticipated pride versus guilt on pro-environmental decision making and behavioral intentions by making anticipated emotions (i.e. pride and guilt) ...

Abstract This paper contributes to the public transport literature by ascertaining role of involvement upon service quality-satisfaction-behavioral intentions paradigm from point view private vehicle users. is first study that provides a comprehensive understanding this framework based on users’ perspective. The added value research that, using structural equation modeling approach, it comparis...