consumer purchasing decisions relating to foreign products are influenced by economic, psychological and sociological factors. this study attempts to relate such rarely studied variables as animosity and ethnocentrism to concepts taken from consumer behavior which are brand image and purchase intention. consequently, this study attempts to provide insights into how brand image, consumer ethnoce...

AIM To examine the role that work relationships have on two long-term care outcomes: job satisfaction and turnover intention. BACKGROUND It is easy to overlook the impact that human relations have in shaping work environments that are conducive to organizational effectiveness. Employee job satisfaction and retention are important organizational outcomes. METHODS Six hundred and seventy-five...

BACKGROUND Using a multi-methods approach we aimed to explore the relative prediction of demographic, socioeconomic and modifiable predictors from the Theory of Planned behaviour (TPB) in explaining feeding intentions amongst a multi-ethnic sample. METHODS 476 women completed a questionnaire at 28 weeks gestation. They were grouped into breastfeeding (N = 258), mixed-feeding (N = 50), bottle-...

BACKGROUND A cross sectional study was conducted among 350 sexually active, mainly unemployed men between the ages of 18 and 35 in KwaZulu-Natal. This study examined the psychosocial determinants of the intention to be sexually active after having used marijuana or alcohol personally or in instances when the sexual partner is intoxicated. The theory of planned behaviour and cultural notions of ...

BACKGROUND Obesity and over weight is one of the causes of threatening children's present and future life. One of the factors that cause this problem is parents' attitude toward preschool children's nutritional patterns. Education can improve the parents' attitude and prevents from this big issue. This study aimed to assess changes in mother's attitude and behavioral intention using intention m...

We undertake a replication of research conducted in China, The Impact of Trust, Guanxi Orientation and Face on the Intention of Chinese Employees and Managers to Engage in Peer-To-Peer Tacit and Explicit Knowledge Sharing, originally published in Information Systems Journal. The study explores how aspects of Guanxi affect the intention to share knowledge. Guanxi is the Chinese phenomenon of a t...

Background: Nursing collaboration is important in enhanced health care quality. Previous studies have identified agreeableness and supervisor negative mood as two predictors for subordinate collaboration. However, in nursing contexts, exactly how these factors influence nursing intention to help colleagues remains unknown, as well as how their interactive influences. Objectives: Thus this study...

BACKGROUND Job satisfaction is an important determinant of health worker motivation, retention, and performance, all of which are critical to improving the functioning of health systems in low- and middle-income countries. A number of small-scale surveys have measured the job satisfaction and intention to leave of individual health worker cadres in different settings, but there are few multi-co...

Background Staff retention and turnover have risen in prominence in the global discourse on the health workforce. Moonlighting, having a second job in addition to a primary job, has not featured in debates on turnover. Objective This paper examines whether moonlighting is a determinant of South African nurses' intention to leave their primary jobs. Design During 2010, a one-stage cluster random...

BACKGROUND Cervical cancer affects women, especially those with HIV-positive status. This study hypothesised that more HIV-positive women with high cues about cervical cancer screening, high perceived susceptibility to cervical cancer, high perceived seriousness of cervical cancer, high perceived benefits of cervical cancer screening, and low perceived barriers about cervical cancer screening h...