The purpose of the current study was to explore ethnic differences in drug abstinence self-efficacy among recovering individuals. Levels of abstinence self-efficacy among African Americans and European Americans increased, decreased, and then increased again over the year. Drug abstinence self-efficacy remained stable over time among Latinos in this study. It is possible that, although they hav...

Despite the increasing demand for information technology professionals in the job market, the number of undergraduates pursuing information systems (IS) degrees is declining. To improve student recruitment, it is important to understand the mechanisms by which students choose to pursue an IS major. This study focuses on the socio-cognitive factors that promote or inhibit the development of stud...

Methods Software and interfaces of a 3D input device were used to detect and measure smallest movements within a game scenario. To maintain motivation three different games were used. The study group were 20 children between 9 and 13 years old, with the diagnosis JIS (Cobb curve of 23° +/4°, bracing with Chêneau-braces). The children exercised six months according to the Schroth concept; two st...

Educational software based on teachable agents has repeatedly proven to have positive effects on students’ learning outcomes. The strongest effects have been shown for low-performers. A number of mechanisms have been proposed to explore this outcome, in particular mechanisms that involve attributions of social agency to teachable agents. Our study examined whether an expression of high versus l...

Security breaches are prevalent in organizations and many of the breaches are attributed to human errors. As a result, the organizations need to increase their employees’ security awareness and their capabilities to engage in safe cybersecurity behaviors. Many different psychological and social factors affect employees’ cybersecurity behaviors. An important research question to explore is to wh...

Effective information security (InfoSec) management cannot be achieved through only technology; people are the weakest point in security and their behaviors such as inappropriate use of computer and network resources, file sharing habits etc. cannot be controlled by security technologies. Although the importance of individuals’ InfoSec behaviors has been widely recognized, there is limited unde...

This study aims to analyze whether self-efficacy, intrinsic motivation, and extrinsic motivation can influence employee performance. The analysis was carried out using the Structural Equation Model (SEM) method AMOS version 24. sample amounted 200 people who are employees of various sectors private companies in Jabodetabek area. results showed that self-efficacy led increased higher work, perfo...

Introduction. Changes in the industry impact stable condition of working a company or and it is not something that can be guaranteed again future. The proof there are many phenomena job transfers even layoffs various business sectors due to COVID-19 pandemic. Many studies have examined importance developing career adaptability skills face changing needs industry. However, discuss mechanism form...

This study aims to mitigate the difficulties (e.g., lack of clarity, confusion, and resistance) implementing a studentcentered learning course in traditionally teacher-centered context (Kim, 2015) by adding elements direct instruction student-centered curriculum. In this mixed-method (student teacher-centered) elective course, thirty Korean intermediate university EFL students from multiple dis...

This article summarises three years of studying game jams. Rooted in extensive field work — participating, organising, and discussing jams multiple methods, we have explored different digital non-digital jamming formats to apply educational settings, especially the Finnish context general formal teaching for 16–19 year olds. paper sums up our main findings arranged thematically. We claim that i...