Virtual communities have emerged as a new form of business model in the electronic business field. Understanding the motivations behind members’ participation is essential for virtual community organizers. Using the Triandis model of interpersonal behavior, this paper investigated reasons why members participate in virtual community activities. The results showed that the interpersonal behavior...

The purpose of this study was to examine the accords and discords between English language teachers’ and students’ perceptions of teacher interpersonal behavior in four selected secondary schools in Ethiopia. The samples of the study were 48 English language teachers and their respective 420 students. In order to collect data, questionnaires were administered to both students and teachers. To a...

The purpose of this study was to examine the accords and discords between English language teachers’ and students’ perceptions of teacher interpersonal behavior in four selected secondary schools in Ethiopia. The samples of the study were 48 English language teachers and their respective 420 students. In order to collect data, questionnaires were administered to both students and teachers. To a...

Recommender system plays an important role in our daily life. Recommender systems naturally intimate items to users that might be fascinating for them. We propose probabilistic matrix factorization technique for recommendations. The (PMF) model is proposed which computes continuously with the number of investigations and, more specially, functions well on the massive, inadequate, and very uneve...

Etiological models of nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) suggest interpersonal features may be important to understand this behavior, but social functions and correlates have not been extensively studied. This study addresses existing limitations by examining interpersonal correlates and functions of NSSI within a stratified random sample of 1,243 predominantly Caucasian college students (mean age ...

Young adults are increasingly integrating social media into their daily lives and social behavior, and empirical work on the personality traits and interpersonal competency associated with use and the potential consequences of use on social behavior is still emerging. The present study sought to investigate the interrelationships among constructs relevant to the developmental tasks associated w...

Interpersonal information sources are often used by consumers, and indubitably influence their decision-making processes. Recently, terms such as permission marketing, opt-in marketing, viral marketing and collaborative filtering have been coined to describe different ways in which the Internet can be used to communicate with consumers. These concepts and tools all have in common the use of int...

The demand/withdraw interaction pattern is a destructive cycle of relationship communication behavior that is associated with negative individual and relationship outcomes. Demand/withdraw behavior is thought to be strongly linked to partners' emotional reactions, but current theories are inconsistent with empirical findings. The current study proposes the interpersonal process model of demand/...