The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between gameplay enjoyment, gaming goal orientations, and individual characteristics. A total of 301 participants were surveyed and the data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. This led to an expanded Gameplay Enjoyment Model (GEM) with 41 game design features that influence player enjoyment. Furthermore, a 3x2 Gaming ...

The present work examines whether individual goal pursuit is influenced by advice and suggestions from interaction partners whose regulatory orientation is perceived to fit (vs. not fit) the individual's orientation. We sought to investigate whether such interpersonal regulatory fit yields motivational consequences for goal pursuit that parallel those of intrapersonal regulatory fit. Furthermor...

The ever severe dynamic competitive environment has led to increasing complexity of strategic decision making in giant organizations. Strategy formulation is one of basic processes in achieving long range goals. Since, in ordinary methods considering all factors and their significance in accomplishing individual goals are almost impossible. Here, a new approach based on clustering method is pro...

abstract the penal legal procedure is a certain mechanism to find out the crime with respect to the behavior of the accused and the guilty. this mechanism must ensure the principles which guarantee justice and fairness, and provide the individual rights and freedoms that are the extreme goal of every just fair legal procedure. so in the proper execution of islamic commands, the necessity of obs...

the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between sport orientation and competitive anxiety in male and female athletes of team and individual sports who participated in 10th student sport olympiad (1389). the present study was descriptive and correlation method was used. for this purpose, 688 subjects (337 females and 351 males) were selected as the sample by simple random samp...

psychological strain, physical and mental pressur. called stress is a part of daily life for all managers and employees. organizational changes, expectations of employees from management, technological changes, society expectations and personal involvement cause a person to be strained and depressed so that he, or she gets involved in pressure, conflict, and frustration. as dr. selye explains, ...