This study was planned to investigate the effect of distance education students’ attitudinal, social, and control beliefs on their mobile learning usage at University Ghana Education, Winneba. The Decomposed Theory Planned Behaviour (DTPB) modified explain how attitude, subjective norms, behavioural influenced current usage. used an explanatory sequential mixed-method approach. Congruent that, ...

The authors present a model that specifies 2 psychological motives underlying scapegoating, defined as attributing inordinate blame for a negative outcome to a target individual or group, (a) maintaining perceived personal moral value by minimizing feelings of guilt over one's responsibility for a negative outcome and (b) maintaining perceived personal control by obtaining a clear explanation f...

Mental processes and their neural substrates are intimately linked to the homeostatic control of internal bodily state. There are a set of distinct interoceptive pathways that directly and indirectly influence brain functions. The anatomical organization of these pathways and the psychological/behavioral expressions of their influence appear along discrete, evolutionarily conserved dimensions t...

Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is the leading inherited cause of autism and intellectual disability. Aberrant synaptic translation has been implicated in the etiology of FXS, but most lines of research on therapeutic strategies have targeted protein synthesis indirectly, far upstream of the translation machinery. We sought to perturb p70 ribosomal S6 kinase 1 (S6K1), a key translation initiation and ...

The present study tested a motivational sequence in which global-level psychological need satisfaction from self-determination theory influenced intentions and behavior directly and indirectly through contextual-level motivation and situational-level decision-making constructs from the theory of planned behavior. Two samples of university students (N = 511) completed measures of global-level ps...

Background Latent growth curve modeling was used to investigate the longitudinal link between attachment, effortful control (EC), and maladaptive development during middle childhood. Methods In a community sample, children (Time 1: n = 157; M age 10.91) their mothers were examined three times over two-year period. Attachment operationalized at more strategic (self-reported trust in maternal sup...

The economy has suffered unprecedentedly during the COVID-19 pandemic, including shared accommodation sector. This study aims to discover pandemic consumer behavior model for recovery of sector as well investigate economic resilience tourists’ prevent and control normalized pandemic. Most literature discussed level industry revitalization. There are relatively few studies on individual resilien...

due to the importance of correct posture for preventing musculoskeletal disorders, the purpose of this study was to evaluate theory of planned behavior in predicting correct body posture in operating room nurses.in this cross-sectional study, participants (n=100) were nurses from five hospitals located in northern iran. participants completed demographic data and theory of planned behavior cons...