The globalization of market has brought considerable foreign goods to Chinese consumers. The competition between domestic and foreign corporations became more and more intense during last decades. This study focuses on how consumer ethnocentrism influences the preference for domestic goods among Chinese consumers. The data were collected through questionnaire from 501 middle school students. Th...

BACKGROUND Health care systems in Finland, Norway and Sweden share many similarities, e.g. full-coverage and tax-financed, with predominately public sector hospitals. Despite similarities, there are differences in the working situations for RNs within these Nordic countries. The aim of this study was to analyze associations between RNs' patient workload and level of involvement in direct patien...

the aim of this study was to investigate the role of job satisfaction in therelationship between organizational justices and turnover intention in expertsof sport federations. in this regard, wood job satisfaction (1986), kim andlung (2007) organizational justice, and cummann (1979) turnover intentionquestionnaires were used. the statistical population consisted of experts ofsport federations a...

maintaining customer interest to repurchase is an important issue in today's competitive market of italian restaurants in tehran. therefore, determining the reasons that caused switching intention in customers, can be leading to arrange marketing purposes. so this research intends to evaluate effect of perceived quality, satiation and satisfaction on switching intention and to examine mode...

aim: there is conclusive scientific evidence of the adverse effect of excessive salt consumption on health, particularly on blood pressure, leading to cardiovascular disease (cvd), gastric cancer, osteoporosis, cataracts, kidney stones, diabetes and obesity. we investigated the determinants of salt consumption among the rural women in chabahar (iran) by applying the theory of planned behavior. ...

It is important to know when designing adolescent smoking interventions how ethnicity and gender influence intention. This paper reports an investigation into how ethnicity influences the smoking intentions of disadvantaged UK African-Caribbean (n = 275), Indian (n = 397), Pakistani (n = 687) and white (n = 1792) 12-13 year olds. The Attitudes-Social influences-Efficacy (ASE) model underpinned ...

OBJECTIVE This double-blind study investigated the effects of intention on the autonomic nervous system of a human "sender" and distant "receiver" of those intentions, and it explored the roles that motivation and training might have in modulating these effects. DESIGN Skin conductance level was measured in each member of a couple, both of whom were asked to feel the presence of the other. Wh...