The inclusion of ICT for educational purposes has burgeoned over the past decade. However, preliminary investigations indicate that e-learning systems remain underutilized, including systems such as discussion forums. The purpose of this study is to establish constructs that may promote adoption and use of discussion forums. The Technology Acceptance Model forms the theoretical framework for th...

Preliminary evidence supports the role of emotion-related deficits in generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), including heightened emotional intensity, poor understanding of emotion, negative cognitive reactivity to emotions, and maladaptive emotion management. However, questions remain concerning the specificity of these emotion-related deficits compared to highly comorbid conditions such as socia...

Recent work has extended the idea of implicit self-theories to the realm of emotion to assess beliefs in the malleability of emotions. The current article expanded on prior measurement of emotion beliefs in a scale development project. Items were tested and revised over rounds of data collection with both students and nonstudent adult online participants. Exploratory and confirmatory factor ana...

This paper documents emotion as integral to stakeholders’ sense making of a key organizational artifact, demonstrating that emotion toward artifacts blends into emotion toward the organization. Multiple stakeholders were interviewed about an artifact of a large public transportation organization. Sense making of the artifact is shown to involve emotion in interpretations that consider three dim...

It has been postulated that emotions play essential roles in conflict situations and excessive expression of or inappropriate display can reduce the capacity to manage conflict. However, there is a lack research relates teachers’ emotion-regulation ability managing To bridge this gap, pilot study aimed examine relationships between management strategies used classroom. The sample consisted 878 ...

In GSD, trusting working relationships is critical for the success of the strategic goals of the organization. In order for an organization to build and maintain this relationship there must be a process in place. This paper outlines the use of a KMS which integrates the overall knowledge of an organization and helps in easy access and sharing of this knowledge among the distributed development...

speech emotion can add more information to speech in comparison to available textual information. however, it will also lead to some problems in speech recognition process. in a previous study, we depicted the substantial changes of speech parameters caused by speech emotion. therefore, in order to improve emotional speech recognition rate, in a first step, the effects of emotion on speech par...