With the arrival of the mobile commerce era, mobile payments have become one of the critical drivers for mobile commerce success. However, the percentage of consumers who use mobile payments frequently is still low. This research views IT acceptance from the IT ecosystem perspective and adopt transfer of learning theories as the theoretical background to investigate how technology usage habits ...

Globally, in developing as well as developed countries, rampant increases in teen drinking are widely recognized as major threats to individual, family, and societal well-being. Parenting strategies influence drinking and related behaviors, leading to their incorporation in national family, health, and substance abuse policy programs. Drinking teens become drinking adults, harming current and f...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate associations between personality traits extraversion and neuroticism, autonomous motivation, Theory Planned Behavior (TPB) constructs leisure-time physical activity. examined whether motivation TPB mediate association activity, moderate relationship with Middle-aged women (N = 441) completed self-report measures traits, attitudes, subjective n...

objective: this study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral stress management training with regard to glycemic control, psychological distress (depression, anxiety, and stress) and quality of life in patients with type 2 diabetes. methods: a total of 60 patients with type 2 diabetes (34 females and 26 males mean age 49.5±5.7 y) were included in this study. they were...

introduction: sleep disorders can influence either directly or indirectly, on the family, colleagues and finally the community. in the realm of children, the most serious complications of sleep is anxiety and behavioral problems that make them prone to academic failure, family tensions and psychosocial – social trauma. concerning the significance, outbreak of sleep disorders and its complicatio...

Based on psychological and neurobiological theories of core affective experience, we identify a set of direct and indirect paths through which affective feelings at work affect three dimensions of behavioral outcomes: direction, intensity, and persistence. First, affective experience may influence these behavioral outcomes indirectly by affecting goal level and goal commitment, as well as three...

In this paper, a mathematical model to describe the spread of an infectious disease on farm is developed. To analyze evolution infection, direct transmission from infected individuals and indirect bacteria accumulated in enclosure are considered. A threshold value population obtained assure extinction disease. When size exceeded, two control procedures apply at each time proposed. For them, max...