THE EFFECT OF THE CONVENTION SPECIFIC DIMENSIONS ON UNIVERSITIES TEACHING STAFF BEHAVIORAL INTENTION

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-118
Author(s):  
Daniela Gračan ◽  
Marina Barkiđija Sotošek ◽  
Matia Torbarina
Keyword(s):  
Professional Education ◽  
Behavioral Intention ◽  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Final Sample ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Republic

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to assess the influence of participation frequency at the conventions on universities teaching staff’s behavioral intentions. Design –The convention tourism attendees’ behavioral intentions evaluation was conducted through the constructs of site-specific dimensions and convention-specific dimensions. Methodology – In order to test proposed hypotheses, following establishment of measurement invariance across groups, structural equation model was fitted to both groups of participants. Approach – The online questionnaire was conducted among the teaching staff of all universities in the Republic of Croatia. The final sample consisted of 978 correctly completed questionnaires. Findings – Two groups differ in the effect of accessibility. It does not predict behavioral intentions for those that visit one convention per year while it predicts behavioral intentions of the attendees that visit more than one convention per year. Both groups’ behavioral intentions are predicted by their rating of conventions’ social networking and professional education opportunities. Originality of the research – The research findings will help the convention organizers to better understand the needs of both groups’ participants and thereby to encourage their repeated participation and dissemination of positive recommendations.

scholarly journals The Determinants of Online Stock Investment in Malaysia: A Case in Early Phase of COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 88-105
Author(s):  
Tan Yong-Da ◽  
Teoh Teng-Tenk, Melissa ◽  
Lee Teck-Heang
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Intention ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Stock Trading ◽  
Survey Tool ◽  
Stock Investment ◽  
System Developer ◽  
Facilitating Conditions

The purpose of this research is to determine the factors that affect the behavioral intention of Malaysians individuals to adopt online stock trading. The primary data is collected with the help of structured questionnaire from 285 participants in the study who are current or potential investors in the Malaysian stock market. The online surveys were distributed from the last quarter of 2019 to the first quarter of 2020. This study uses the structured and self-administered online questionnaire survey tool to collect the primary data from samples. Non-probability convenient sampling method was employed and Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Model (PLS-SEM) is adopted. The results indicate that all constructs, namely performance expectancy (PE), effort expectancy (EE), social influence (SI) and facilitating conditions (FC) have a direct significant positive relationship toward behavioral intention. In addition, the study shows that PE is the most important factor in determining individuals’ behavioral intention in adopting online stock trading. In conclusion, online stock trading system developer should focus on designing the additional useful features and ensuring the quality of the information to satisfy the demands and desires of the general public and to build features such as prompting traders to avoid the possibility of over trading or with feature enabling users to backtrack and test their trading strategies and to customize different types of analysis to help users making informed investment decisions.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Social Influence Terhadap Behavioral Intention Penggunaan Marketplace Pada UMKM Di Kota Bandung

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Nurhalimah Nurhalimah
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Structural Equation Model ◽  
Behavioral Intention ◽  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Unified Theory ◽  
Use Of Technology

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui pengaruh social influence (Pengaruh Sosial) terhadap behavioral intentions (minat pemanfaatan) pengguna Marketplace di Kota Bandung. Penelitian ini menggunakan teori Model Unified Theory of Acceptance and use of Technology (UTAUT). Metode pengumpulan data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini dilakukan dengan cara menyebarkan kuesioner pada 400 orang UMKM yang telah menggunakan  aplikasi Marketplace. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan Kuantitatif dengan medote asosiatif kasual yaitu metode yang digunakan untuk mengetahui ada dan tidaknya pengaruh variabel bebas terhadap variabel terikat, teknik analisis data menggunakan Metode statistic Multivariate Structural Equation Model (SEM). Berdasarkan penelitian ini variabel dependen dipengaruhi oleh variabel independen. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan Pengaruh Social Influence terhadap Behavioral Intention penggunaan Marketplace pada UMKM di Kota Bandung yaitu sebesar 0.897 dan dari semua variabel independen mempunyai pengaruh secara simultan terhadap variabel dependen sebesar 173.596. Pengguna Marketplace perlu lebih meningkatkan sosialisasi kepada masyarakat khususnya UMKM dan memberikan pemahaman bahwa dengan menggunakn Marketplace dapat lebih meningkatkan bisnis mereka.

scholarly journals Building a Common Project by Promoting Pedagogical Coordination and Educational Leadership for School Improvement: A Structural Equation Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Inmaculada García-Martínez ◽  
Pedro J. Arrifano Tadeu ◽  
Miguel Pérez-Ferra ◽  
José Luis Ubago-Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
School Improvement ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Final Sample ◽  
Management Leadership ◽  
Collaborative Working ◽  
Common Goals

Leadership and teaching practices are the most important factors that affect student learning. Many studies have pointed out the combination of both of them in a common project as a guarantee to achieve school improvement. The present study sets out to define and contrast an explanatory model of pedagogical coordination as a function of management leadership, collaborative working, setting common goals, participation in decision making, involvement of teaching staff and professional development of teachers, in a sample of pedagogical leaders from secondary schools. A final sample of 547 participants from Granada and Jaen (Spain) was obtained. An instrument adapted from the DLI questionnaire (Hulpia 2009) was administered. Path analysis was conducted, which displayed good model fit for all considered indices (χ2 = 10.937; df = 2.187; p < 0.001; CFI = 0.998 TLI = 0.993; GFI = 0.994; RMSEA = 0.047). The main result was the identification of positive relationships between all dimensions of the questionnaire. It can be concluded that management plays a key role in the establishment of common goals at the school. Another important finding was that collaborative conditions should be present to favour the involvement and professional growth of the teacher. In summary, the existence of all of these conditions leads to high levels of all indices of pedagogical coordination in the examined secondary schools.

scholarly journals The Mechanism of Word-of-Mouth for Tourist Destinations in Crisis

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402091949
Author(s):  
Feng Xu ◽  
Wenxia Niu ◽  
Shuaishuai Li ◽  
Yuli Bai
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Intention ◽  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Psychological Distance ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Mobile Internet ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
The Relationship

In an era of mobile internet, word-of-mouth marketing has become a powerful tool for optimizing tourist destination marketing. Extensive research studies on the mechanism of word-of-mouth have been carried out. However, there is little research on the mechanism of word-of-mouth concerning tourist destinations in crisis. This article focuses on the influence mechanism of word-of-mouth in the relationship between perceived images and behavioral intentions. A structural equation model was established, with “perceived image” as the independent variable, “word-of-mouth” and “psychological distance” as mediating variables, and “behavioral intention” as the dependent variable. Our study is based on a survey in Southern Xinjiang. The final results show that word-of-mouth plays a mediating role in the relationship between perceived image and behavioral intentions. The moderating effect of word-of-mouth plays two roles in the mechanism of the perceived image on the behavioral intention: the promotion mechanism and the repression mechanism. Tourists’ sense of psychological distance significantly mediates the relationship between perceived image and behavioral intention. The findings enrich word-of-mouth and the marketing theories for the destinations in crisis, which provide enlightening insights for the sustainable development of the destinations in crisis.

A Study on Factors Affecting on Customer Intention to Use the Express Bus

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (5E) ◽  
Author(s):  
Phuong Nguyen Van ◽  
Hieu Trung Nguyen ◽  
Toan Bao Le
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Behavioral Intention ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Perceived Value ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Corporate Image ◽  
Organizational Image ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Managerial Implications

The improvement of transit service quality is an essential role in developing urban and interstate transportation. The local government, as well as bus service companies, should understand the behavioral intention of passengers to meet their expectation and requirements. This paper aims to highlight such behavioral decision and investigate dominant factors that influence the customers’ decision to use the express bus. The study explores the case of express bus companies in Tay Ninh province, Vietnam. By using the structural equation model approach to analyze the data collected from 295 passengers, who have experienced in using the express bus, the results reveal that service quality has a significantly positive relationship with both perceived value and corporate image. Specifically, customer satisfaction and organizational image also positively influence behavioral intention. Meanwhile, service quality indirectly affects on behavioral intention throughout perceived value and corporate image. Based on the findings, we provided some insightful managerial implications and recommendations to managers of bus carriers, and valuable practical suggestions to policymakers in the local government of Tay Ninh province to improve the service quality to encourage more citizens to use the express bus.

scholarly journals Students Acceptance of Google Classroom: An Exploratory Study using PLS-SEM Approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (06) ◽  
pp. 112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rana A. Saeed Al-Maroof ◽  
Mostafa Al-Emran
Keyword(s):  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Perceived Ease Of Use ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Actual Usage

Google classroom can work in unidirectional process as it can serve the teachers’ strategies and styles on one hand and students’ perception, understanding, and effective participation in different classroom skills on the other hand. The ac-ceptance of Google classroom is affected by different factors. Some of them are still not clearly specified and discussed in previous research; therefore, they need further investigation. Based on the previous assumption, this study is an attempt to examine the factors that affect the students’ acceptance of Google classroom at Al Buraimi University College (BUC) in Oman. The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was adopted to formulate the hypotheses of the current study. The data was collected through an online questionnaire with 337 respondents. The Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Model (PLS-SEM) approach was used to assess both the measurement and structural models. The results of the study prove that both the perceived ease of use (PEOU) and perceived usefulness (PU) positively influence the behavioral intention, which in turn influence the actual usage of Google classrooms. This study helps the decision makers of the higher educational institutions to have a better understanding of the effectiveness of us-ing Google classroom by their students. It is assumed that it helps in measuring the level of students’ acceptance to the previously mentioned technology.

scholarly journals Leymann Inventory of Psychological Terror Scale: Development and Validation for Portuguese Accounting Professionals

Economies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Rui Silva ◽  
Margarida Simões ◽  
Ana Paula Monteiro ◽  
António Dias
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Quantitative Methodology ◽  
Scale Development And Validation ◽  
Statistical Reliability ◽  
Accounting Professionals ◽  
Final Sample ◽  
Development And Validation ◽  
First Time ◽  
Descriptive Statistical Analysis

This research aims to adapt the Leymann Inventory of Psychological Terror and its use on Portuguese Accounting Professionals. Leymann scale was applied in a final sample of 478 accountants aged between 28 and 68, of which 47.5% were men and 52.5% women. We used a quantitative methodology by applying a questionnaire survey whose results were, in the following research phase, analyzed using the statistical packages SPSS 26 and AMOS 27. We used SPSS 26 for the Descriptive Statistical Analysis and AMOS 27 to estimate the structural equation model that validated the scale. After the scale had been adapted and changed, it was validated in psychometric terms to be applied to and used in studies involving this type of professionals. The Accountants Leymann Inventory of Psychological Terror that resulted from adapting the original model was tested using structural equation modelling. Thus, the new scale produced significant results similar to those of the original scale, which means that it is valid and can be applied to other contexts. The validity and statistical reliability of the new scale made it possible to measure mobbing problems among accounting professionals reliably and robustly. The present research is an important contribution to the literature. Although it has been applied in several contexts, it is the first time it is being developed, adapted, and validated for accounting professionals who work in this area of management.

scholarly journals Patient Engagement in Health Management as a Mediator Between Perceived Risk and COVID-19 Related Distress in Patients With IBD: A Structural Equation Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greta Castellini ◽  
Lorenzo Palamenghi ◽  
Mariarosaria Savarese ◽  
Serena Barello ◽  
Salvatore Leone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Patient Engagement ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Structural Equation Models ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
The Impact

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 emergency on patients with IBD's psychological distress, understanding the role of patient engagement as a mediator.Methods: An online questionnaire was created, measuring perceived risk susceptibility toward COVID-19, perceived stress, and patient engagement. The questionnaire was distributed to a purposive sample of IBD patients who belonged to the Italian Association for patients with IBD (AMICI Onlus) in April 2020. Structural equation models were implemented.Results: The effect of the perceived risk susceptibility toward COVID-19 contagion on the perceived stress is fully mediated by patient engagement (β = 0.306, p &lt; 0.001). Moreover, the patient engagement mitigates the perceived stress (β = −0.748, p &lt; 0.001) in our sample of IBD patients, and it is negatively influenced by the perceived risk susceptibility toward COVID-19 (β = −0.410, p &lt; 0.001).Conclusion: Patient engagement is the key factor that explains how the perceived risk susceptibility toward COVID-19 affects the perceived psychological distress in patients with IBD, underlining that the perceived risk of contagion increases their perceived level of stress through a decrease of patient engagement.

scholarly journals Cyberchondria severity and quality of life among Lebanese adults: the mediating role of fear of COVID-19, depression, anxiety, stress and obsessive–compulsive behavior—a structural equation model approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Clara Rahme ◽  
Marwan Akel ◽  
Sahar Obeid ◽  
Souheil Hallit
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Compulsive Disorder

Abstract Background This study highlights the significant association between cyberchondria and quality of life among the Lebanese population in the time of COVID-19. The aim was to assess the association between cyberchondria and quality of life (QOL) of Lebanese community during the COVID-19 pandemic and assess the mediating effect of fear of COVID-19, depression, anxiety, stress and Yale-Brown Obsessive–Compulsive Scale in this association. Methods This cross-sectional study was carried out between December 2020 and January 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 449 persons participated in this study by filling the online questionnaire. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was performed to examine the structural relationship between cyberchondria severity, the mediator (anxiety, stress, depression, obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) and fear of COVID-19) and physical/mental QOL. Results Having a university level of education and older age were significantly associated with higher physical QOL scores, whereas higher obsession-compulsion disorder, higher stress and higher anxiety were significantly associated with lower physical QOL scores. Higher anxiety was significantly associated with lower mental QOL scores. The results of the SEM showed that stress, fear of COVID-19 and to a lesser limit OCD, mediated the association between cyberchondria severity and physical QOL, whereas anxiety, stress and fear of COVID-19 mediated the association between cyberchondria severity and mental QOL. Conclusion This research reported interesting results encouraging more exploration of cyberchondria and its association with quality of life during this unique period of the pandemic. However, this virus has altered the lives of individuals all across the world, and the consequences will last for a long time. Along with all of the steps done to stop the development of COVID-19 and improve physical outcomes, mental health requires immediate care. More research is needed to determine the coping techniques people are employing to deal with the pandemic.

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