Social stigma continues to be a barrier for health promotion in our society. One of the most stigmatized health conditions in our time continues to be addiction to illicit drug use. Although it has been widely recognized as a health concern, criminalizing approaches continue to be common in Puerto Rico. Health professionals need to engage in challenging the stigma of illicit drug use in order t...

Social shopping communities provide online platform for customers to communicate their opinions and exchange product information. In this study, we explored the factors driving customer information sharing behavior in social shopping communities. We proposed and empirically tested an integrative theoretical model of customer information sharing based on social capital theory. We adopted an empi...

Despite the calls for establishing theory-driven multidimensional formative conceptualization and operationalization of information systems (IS) usage, social media usage is conventionally modeled as a unidimensional reflective construct. Built on the conceptualization of IS usage and perspectives of the formative construction, this study develops an aggregate formative model of social media us...

Given the immense shifts the social networking sites and applications have brought about, a considerable number of researchers in the field of communication studies have turned to study different aspects of social media usage and factors influencing it. This study gathered data from 33318 US non-institutionalized citizens over 18 including 17079 females and 16239 males; they were members of web...

In recent years, the rise of the digital transformation received significant importance in Business-to-Business (B2B) research. Social media applications provide executives with a raft of new options. Consequently, interfaces to social media platforms have also been integrated into B2B salesforce applications, although very little is as yet known about their usage and general impact on B2B sale...

Social media usage has grown by leaps and bound over the last decade and has become an important platform being used by the workforce for both work and non-work related purposes. The usage of these tools varies across employees and organizations depending on multiple factors. The present study examines the social media usage at workplace in Information Technology professionals by measuring it o...

A survey of 488 college students was conducted in Turkey to investigate the relationship between social network usage, shame and Internet addiction. It was hypothesized that a relationship between shame and social network usage was mediated by Internet addiction. First of all, according to simple regression analysis, it was found that shame significantly and positively predicted social network ...

The social networking plays an important role on the internet in all spheres of activities including technology-assisted learning (TAL). Further online capital built upon sites (SNS) adds significant value to TAL. This study aims compare users’ profile, behavior and two contrasting SNS, namely LinkedIn Facebook. It also discusses possible implications A total number 329 valid responses were rec...