scholarly journals Consumer Ethnocentrism as a Moderator in the Relationship Between Ostracism and Self-esteem

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sizhezhou
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Consumer Market ◽  
Significant Drop ◽  
Consumer Ethnocentrism ◽  
National Pride ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
The Relationship

When and why self-esteem drops down after an ostracism experience are worthy questions to answer in the field of ostracism. Considering the growing national pride in China, the current study investigates whether consumer ethnocentrism, a personality trait highly correlated with national pride in the consumer market, moderates the effects of ostracism on self-esteem through a large-scale survey (n = 1200). Confirmative factor analyses and moderation regression analyses are conducted to test the hypothesis. The results show that: 1. Consistent with previous studies, ostracism negatively correlates with self-esteem. 2. Consumer ethnocentrism positively moderates ostracism's effects on self-esteem, such that individuals with high consumer ethnocentrism have a significant drop in self-esteem after ostracism. Potential explanations of the moderating effect of consumer ethnocentrism, implications and limitations of the current study, and direction for further studies are discussed.

scholarly journals Strategic Conflict Management? A Study of Workplace Dispute Resolution in Wales

ILR Review ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 411-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Nash ◽  
Deborah Hann
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Management ◽  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Strategic Choices ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
High Road ◽  
Strategic Conflict

In this article, the authors examine the relationship between organizational strategy and the approach taken to conflict management using a large-scale survey of companies in Wales, a constituent part of the United Kingdom. They focus on conflicts among employees, an under-researched form of conflict, to examine which types of organizations adopt a more strategic approach to conflict management that aligns with broader HR objectives. They find that organizations with a unitarist, and often anti-union, orientation are more likely to make strategic choices about how they address conflict. Equally, the authors argue that some evidence suggests that organizations that take high-road approaches to HR are more likely to take an intentional approach to how they address conflict.

How cultural differences in uncertainty avoidance affect product perceptions

2007 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 330-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Anne Lee ◽  
Ellen Garbarino ◽  
Dawn Lerman
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Uncertainty Avoidance ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Behavioural Intentions ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Quality Perceptions ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
Highly Correlated

PurposeTo examine how people from countries that vary in uncertainty avoidance (UA) use information about product uncertainty when evaluating products.Design/methodology/approachTwo studies were conducted that vary in methodology, sampling and analysis. First, an experiment was designed to manipulate product uncertainty through the use of country of origin (COO) quality‐stereotypes. It was administered to university students from a diverse range of countries, all studying in the USA. Next, data from a large‐scale survey of consumers from ten countries was submitted to hierarchical binary regression analyses to include variables at the country and individual level.FindingsThe studies support an interaction between product uncertainty (PU) and cultural UA on quality perceptions and behavioural intentions. Consumers from high UA countries evaluated high PU offerings less positively and held weaker behavioural intentions than those from low UA countries, but for low PU offerings, no difference was found. The effect of UA was reduced for people with more experience and those who were younger.Research limitations/implicationsAlthough we isolated the effects of UA from other cultural and individual level variables, it would be useful to directly cross individualism with UA in an experimental design, as these two variables are highly correlated.Practical implicationsThis study suggests products with higher levels of PU will have more opportunity to prove themselves in low uncertainty cultures.Originality/valueThis study should be valuable for marketing managers devising rollout strategies for products with higher levels of PU or weaker quality stereotypes.

scholarly journals Knowledge and the News: An Investigation of the Relation Between News Use, News Avoidance, and the Presence of (Mis)beliefs

2021 ◽  
pp. 194016122110314
Author(s):  
Alyt Damstra ◽  
Rens Vliegenthart ◽  
Hajo Boomgaarden ◽  
Kathrin Glüer ◽  
Elina Lindgren ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Genetically Modified Organisms ◽  
Genetically Modified ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Scholarly Attention ◽  
News Use

While increasing scholarly attention has been devoted to news avoidance, there are only few studies taking the distinction between intentional and unintentional news avoidance into consideration, and none that has investigated the linkage between the two types of news avoidance and knowledge about politics and society. To fill this void, this study explores this relationship while distinguishing between knowledge related to uncontested issues and knowledge related to issues that have been subject to public controversies (climate change, vaccination, genetically modified organisms, crime, and immigration). Relying on a large-scale survey among Swedish citizens conducted in 2020 ( N = 2,160), we find that the relationship with patterns of news use is substantially different across these types of beliefs. Among other things, the results suggest that knowledge of uncontested issue domains is positively related to news use, but knowledge of contested issue domains is not. The intentional avoidance of news is only negatively related to knowledge of contested issues. Taken together, the results suggest that the mechanisms driving beliefs related to uncontested versus contested issues are substantially different.

Implications of green HRM on the firm's green competitive advantage: the mediating role of enablers of green culture

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Muisyo ◽  
Qin Su ◽  
Thu Hau Ho ◽  
Mercy Muthoni Julius ◽  
Muhammad Shahjahan Usmani
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Peer Involvement ◽  
Manufacturing Firm ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
Green Human Resource Management ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeThe available literature demonstrates that green human resource management (GHRM) practices enhance the firm's green performance. However, the studies fail to show how GHRM practices give rise to green culture and how such green culture influences the green competitiveness of a firm. Anchored on the Ability Motivation Opportunity (AMO) theory, this study investigates how firms can build green competitive advantage from GHRM. The study focuses on four enablers of green culture (EGC): leadership emphasis, message credibility, peer involvement and employee empowerment. The study tests the mediating role of each EGC in the relationship between GHRM and green competitive advantage (GCA). The study findings provide managers with a deeper understanding of how GHRM supports the development of the EGC and how they explain the firm's GCA.Design/methodology/approachData was collected from a large-scale survey of Malaysia's manufacturing firm. We managed to collect 96 valid and useable questionnaires.FindingsWe find that GHRM practices give rise to EGC and the EGC mediate the relationship between GHRM and GCA.Originality/valueThe study presents the EGC in the green competitiveness context and goes further to test its mediating role in the GHRM–GCA relationship. We also develop a novel conceptual framework that manufacturing firms can deploy to attain green competitive advantage.

SEX DIFFERENCES IN THE EFFECT OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT ON SELF-ESTEEM: A HONG KONG CASE

1986 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tak Sing Cheung
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
School Students ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
Male Subjects

This paper reports a piece of research that is addressed to the controversial issue whether there are sex differences in the effect of academic achievement on self esteem. The study is a large scale survey based on a representative sample of all the secondary school students in Hong Kong. The results showed that male subjects generally had a higher score on self esteem than female ale subjects, and that while the self-esteem of male subjects were susceptible to the influence of academic achievement, the same was not true for their female counterparts. Similar findings were established in a recent study carried out in Norway. Explanations were given to account for the similarity.

scholarly journals Sticker and Emoji Use in Facebook Messenger: Implications for Graphicon Change

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 217-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Artie Konrad ◽  
Susan C Herring ◽  
David Choi
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Language Change ◽  
Emotional Intensity ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Evolutionary Trajectory ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

Abstract This study posits that graphicon use follows an evolutionary trajectory characterized by stages. Drawing on evidence that the uses and functions of emoticons have changed over time and that the introduction of emoji affected the popularity and usage of emoticons, we examine the uses of the newer types, emoji and stickers, and consider the relationship of stickers to emoji. Adapting the apparent-time method from the sociolinguistic study of language change, we compare sticker and emoji use by English-speaking Facebook Messenger users, exploring how they are used and under what conditions using semi-structured interviews and a large-scale survey. Stickers are argued to be more pragmatically marked for emotional intensity, positivity, and intimacy, characteristic of a more recent stage of evolution, while emoji use exhibits signs of conventionalization and pragmatic unmarking. The identification of patterns that characterize evolutionary stages has implications for future graphicon use.

The relationship between the levels of free fatty acids, lipoprotein lipase, carboxylesterase, N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase, somatic cell count and other mastitis indices in bovine milk

1981 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn H. Fitz-Gerald ◽  
Hilton C. Deeth ◽  
Barry J. Kitchen
Keyword(s):  
Somatic Cell ◽  
Cell Count ◽  
Lipoprotein Lipase ◽  
Lipase Activity ◽  
Somatic Cell Count ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Bovine Milk ◽  
High Positive Correlation ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
The Relationship

SummaryA large-scale survey of milks from healthy and mastitic bovine quarters was undertaken to establish the influence of mastitic infection on milk lipase activity and free fatty acid (FFA) level. Mastitic milks tended to have higher FFA levels, but lower lipoprotein lipase activities compared with milk from healthy quarters. These effects became significant at relatively severe levels of infection. The elevated FFA was attributable to higher FFA levels on secretion and to greater lipolysis during storage. Levels of carboxylesterase activity increased with severity of mastitis and showed high positive correlation with mastitis indices.Marked increases in carboxylesterase, N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase and phospholipase occurred following the induction of mastitis by intramammary infusion of Escherichia, coli endotoxin, in parallel with changes in somatic cell count and other mastitis indices. Relatively little change in lipoprotein lipase activity was observed.

scholarly journals Pilot Study Using AI for Large-scale Survey on Psychology: Blood Type and Personality in Japan

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masayuki Kanazawa
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Genetic Factors ◽  
Blood Type ◽  
Statistical Techniques ◽  
Personality Tests ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
Abo Blood Type ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Linear Interactions

The influence of genetic factors on personality has been actively studied for several decades. This pilot study analyzed data from a <b>large-scale survey</b> (N = 3,750) using a combination of traditional statistical techniques and <b>artificial intelligence (AI)</b> to examine the relationship between ABO blood type and personality. The results showed that respondents exhibited the personality traits corresponding to their own blood type more strongly than respondents who had different blood types did. This finding was consistent across all 8 traits, and all differences were statistically significant. In our survey, the same differences in scores were found in the groups who were less interested in the relationship between blood type and personality, although the values were smaller. A group of 1,067 participants with better knowledge of blood type personality, AI predicted blood type in 43.6% of the participants. In the case of entire 3,750 participants, it did 40.4%. If gender, age, and marital status were excluded, these rates decreased to 42.3% and 39.3% respectively; all these values were more than by chance. We observed a <b>clear and significant relationship</b> between blood type and personality in a large-scale survey. Meanwhile, the effect of the blood type is not always coherent, therefore consistent results cannot be obtained unless <b>non-linear interactions</b> with other factors and <b>individual differences in personality sensitivity</b> are considered. The results of conventional personality tests were also discussed.

scholarly journals MOTIVATIONS AND EXPERIENCES CONCEPTS IN THE TRAVEL DECISIONS OF DOMESTIC TOURISTS OF THE „HUNGARIAN GREAT PLAIN”

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 1347-1354
Author(s):  
Márta KÓRÓDI ◽  
◽  
Anita MONDOK ◽  
Lóránt Dénes DÁVID ◽  
Attila SZABÓ ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Great Plain ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Tourism Product ◽  
Travel Motivations ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
Travel Decisions ◽  
Consumer Habits ◽  
The Relationship

From the point of view of successful tourism product development and destination management it is important to identify the travel motivations that determine the expectations of the experience and hence the satisfaction. The large-scale survey among domestic tourism participants reveals ideas, knowledge and motivations as determinants of tourism consumer habits, explores the relationship between domestic travel characteristics, destination awareness and the suggestibility of travel decisions. The results obtained, especially the general openness to domestic travel. Based on the research results, the tourism-specific motivations of the destination can be identified, on which further product development and experience management methods can be based.

scholarly journals Adolescents and loot boxes: Links with problem gambling and motivations for purchase

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Zendle ◽  
Rachel Meyer ◽  
Harriet Over
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Problem Gambling ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Real World ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Text Data ◽  
Monetary Rewards ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
The Relationship

Loot boxes are items in video games that can be paid for with real-world money but contain randomised contents. Many games that feature loot boxes are played by adolescents. Similarities between loot boxes and gambling have led to concern that they are linked to the development of problem gambling in adolescents. Previous research has shown links between loot boxes and problem gambling in adult populations. However, thus far, there is no empirical evidence of either the size or existence of a link between loot box spending and problem gambling in adolescents. A large-scale survey of adolescents (n=1155) found evidence for such a link (η2 = 0.120). The link between loot box spending and problem gambling amongst adolescents was more than twice as strong as the relationship observed in adults. Qualitative analysis of text data showed that adolescents bought loot boxes for a variety of reasons. Several of these motivations were similar to common reasons for engaging in gambling. Overall, these results suggest that loot boxes either literally cause problem gambling amongst adolescents or allow game companies to profit from problem gambling amongst adolescents for massive monetary rewards. In either case, these results suggest that regulation is appropriate.

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