This study was conducted to explore university students' attitudes and self-efficacy toward the Internet. Moreover, the relationships between their attitudes and self-efficacy toward the Internet were also investigated. The sample of this study included 1,313 students, coming from three universities in Taiwan. It was found that male students expressed significantly more positive attitudes than ...

The purpose of this study was to assess differences in selfregulation of attitudes towards engaging in exercise and eating a healthy diet between physical education teacher education (PETE) students and general education (GE) students, and between male students and female students. Participants were university students (n = 194) at a university in the Intermountain West in the U.S. Results show...

The aim of this study is to investigate and measure postgraduate students’ attitudes toward the Internet and computer use. Specifically, the present study sought answers to the following questions: What is the overall profile of postgraduate students’ attitudes toward the Internet and computer use? Do postgraduate students’ attitudes toward Internet and computer use differ in terms of gender? D...

OBJECTIVES To explore medical students' attitudes towards communication skills learning in Western Saudi Arabia and to examine impact of socio-demographic variables on the attitudes towards learning these skills.   METHODS In this cross-sectional study, sample of medical students were recruited from Taif University, Taif, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia during the second semester (January-May 2014). ...

The aim of this research was to explore the relationship among students’ attitudes toward programming, gender and academic achievement in programming. The scale used for measuring students’ attitudes toward programming was developed by the researcher and consisted of 35 five-point Likert type items in four subscales. The scale was administered to 179 students who enrolled in introductory comput...

The objectives of this study were to explore 1) how students across the four years of a dental curriculum differed in attitudes towards underserved patients and community service at the beginning and end of each school year; 2) how these attitudes changed as a function of participating in required vs. voluntary community-based activities; and 3) what attitudes faculty members held about the eff...

Results: results showed that (1) nursing students were found to have positive attitudes towards mental illness in four scales, (2) no significant differences were found between students’ attitudes towards mental illness and demographics, (3) there was a significant difference in attitudes towards the mental illness between students who have previous contact with mental patients and those who di...

Background: Discrimination and stigmatization of people with mental illness are a global and complex phenomenon and there is evidence that negative attitudes and discrimination are also prevalent among health care staff and health care students. Methods: Attitudes towards people with schizophrenia among 1101 students in eight different university programs providing training for work in the heal...