introduction: from maturity to menopause, women are worried about pregnancy. abstinence from sex or use of pregnancy prevention methods are choices for them. as abstinence is impossible, the only remaining choice is use of pregnancy prevention methods. effective control of pregnancy is really essential for the health of mother and infant and also control of unplanned increase in population. reg...

Learning systems are widely adopted by institutions worldwide in the new millennium. The challenge on utilization of learning systems is switched from users’ pre-acceptance behaviours (whether they are likely to adopt learning systems) to post-acceptance behaviours (whether they will continue to use the learning systems). It is commonly expected that successfully adopted learning systems that h...

Salespersons play an important role in business transactions and serve as interfaces and bridges between firms and customers. This study attempts to explore the relationship between the two factors (salesperson demographics and leadership style) and continuance organizational commitment using salespersons in Taiwan’s retailing services industry as the population. In order to collect primary dat...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have been playing a pivotal role among the latest e-learning initiative and obtain widespread popularity in many universities. But the low course completion rate and the high midway dropout rate of students have puzzled some researchers and designers of MOOCs. Therefore, it is important to explore the factors affecting students’ continuance intention to use M...

Contemporary research on information technology (IT) continuance is plagued by inadequate understanding of the continuance concept and inappropriate use of theories for studying this phenomenon. Following a review of the IT continuance literature, this paper identifies some of the extant misconceptions about continuance research and suggests theoretical avenues for advancing this research in a ...

Continuance, in the information technology context, refers to sustained use of a technology by individual users over the longterm after their initial acceptance. In this research, we explore the role of enjoyment and subjective norms in continuance use of social networking services. A research model based on the IS continuance model was developed, and empirically analyzed using data from social...

The expectation-confirmation model (ECM) has been applied to investigate the satisfaction with and continuance of information technology (IT) after its adoption. However, the ECM assumes that the satisfaction-continuance relationship is linear. In the electronics market, however, such a linear relationship may be susceptible to the influence of new variants unique to the Internet. In addition, ...

In conjunction with the worldwide use of smartphones, countless application software packages, commonly known as Apps, have also seen with rapid development. Despite the substantial number of downloaded Apps globally, factors influencing users’ continuance intention with App usage are still vague. Grounded in the IS continuance theory, this study introduces utilitarian, hedonic and social persp...

The authors compared linear and nonlinear relations between affective and continuance commitment and 3 commonly studied work outcomes (turnover cognitions, absenteeism, and job performance), observed in 3 separate research settings. Using a linear model, they replicated the common observation in the literature that affective commitment is more strongly related to work outcomes than continuance ...

The IS continuance model has been extensively applied in past studies for investigating continued information system (IS) usage behavior. The current study attempts to extend the post-adoption beliefs in the IS continuance model based on effort-accuracy model, by extending the application of IS continuance model beyond an instrumental focus. The extended IS continuance model, incorporating the ...