The digital divide has attracted enormous attention from both the popular press and information systems researchers. A survey study was conducted to determine the impact of the digital divide on students’ selfdirected learning in an information technology-based learning environment through their computer selfefficacy, and to assess the role of the school IT environment in bridging this digital ...

The concept of self-efficacy was originally developed by Albert Bandura, and has been defined as the personal belief that one is capable of performing in an appropriate and effective manner to attain certain goals. As such, self-efficacy is a self-system that controls most personal activity, including appropriate use of professional knowledge and skills. Teacher selfefficacy is the belief that ...

Objective: Purpose of this study was to determining the share of self-efficacy, achievement motivation and self-esteem in predicting entrepreneurial behavior in physically disabled females. Method: The design of the present study was a predictive correlation. The sample consisted of 80 female members of Disabled Community in Isfahan City who had 18-36 years old and participated in questionnaire...

Innovations in economic development have highlighted the role of talent, and focusing on employees’ work stress its impact health contributes to continued employees companies. This article aims propose stress-employee model hypotheses under moderation perceived organizational support (POS) self-efficacy. We select appropriate scales; collected 428 responses from questionnaire survey explored di...

Background: African American adolescents accounted for more than half of all HIV/AIDS cases in 2009. Behavioral Strategies are needed to help lessen the incidence of HIV/AIDS among this population. Purpose: The aim of his study was to examine sexual self-efficacy practices and beliefs among African American adolescents. We also examined gender differences between African American adolescents to...

In this paper we argue that successful information systems development requires creative problem solving skills, and present two cognitive factors, selfefficacy, and creative self-efficacy, and one affective factor, playfulness, as three key personal factors that aid creative problem solving during information systems development (ISD). A research model to support our argument is constructed sy...

The purpose of this study is to determine and analyze the effect school support on computer selfefficacy, self-efficacy technological pedagogical content knowledge mediated by self-efficacy. research method used was an explanatory survey data collected through a questionnaire. Economics teachers at Karawang Regency Senior High School in 2021 totaling 68 were determined as population saturated s...

After enterprise systems (ES) are infused to daily businesses, employees’ extended use has already become an important concern to firms striving for reaping benefits from IT investment. Considering the innovative and extra-role nature of extended use, the paper further re-conceptualizes extended use as proactive behaviour. And based on the theory of proactive motivation, a research model is dev...

This two-part study tracks and measures the professional selfefficacy judgements of two cohorts of pre-service teachers (PST). In Part One, the GTCE’s Code of Conduct and Practice (GTCE, 2009) was used to help form an instrument which tracked changes in the professional selfefficacy judgements of 211 PST through a one-year graduate program. Judgements were sought from PST both about themselves,...