scholarly journals Emotional Responses and Perceived Relative Harm Mediate the Effect of Exposure to Misinformation about E-Cigarettes on Twitter and Intention to Purchase E-Cigarettes among Adult Smokers

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (23) ◽  
pp. 12347
Author(s):  
Jessica Liu ◽  
Caroline Wright ◽  
Olga Elizarova ◽  
Jennifer Dahne ◽  
Jiang Bian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Affective Responses ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Intention To Purchase ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Mediation Models

There is a gap in knowledge on the affective mechanisms underlying effects of exposure to health misinformation. This study aimed to understand whether discrete emotional responses and perceived relative harm of e-cigarettes versus smoking mediate the effect of exposure to tweets about the harms of e-cigarettes on Twitter and intention to purchase e-cigarettes among adult smokers. We conducted a web-based experiment in November 2019 among 2400 adult smokers who were randomly assigned to view one of four conditions of tweets containing different levels of misinformation. We fitted mediation models using structural equation modeling and bootstrap procedures to assess the indirect effects of exposure to tweets through perceived relative harm of e-cigarettes and six discrete emotions. Our findings support that exposure to tweets about harms of e-cigarettes influence intention to purchase e-cigarettes through perceived relative harm, discrete emotional responses, and serially through emotional responses and perceived relative harm. Feeling worried, hopeful, and happy mediated the effects of condition on intention to purchase e-cigarettes. Feeling scared, worried, angry, and hopeful mediated the effects serially through perceived relative harm. Affective responses and perceived relative harm following exposure to misinformation about e-cigarette harm may mediate the relationship with intention to purchase e-cigarettes among adult smokers.

scholarly journals APAKAH SIFAT EXTRAVERSION DAN NEUROTICISM BERPENGARUH TERHADAP WHISTLEBLOWING? PENGUJIAN KOMITMEN SEBAGAI PEMEDIASI

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-122
Author(s):  
Angeli Gavriel Tjahyadi ◽  
Andi Ina Yustina
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
Personality Trait ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Affective Commitment ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Service Trade ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This research examines the effect of affective commitment as a mediation variable between the relationship of personality trait (extraversion and neuroticism) to whistleblowing. Data collection used web-based questionnaires and has collected 95 of respondents from individuals who work in the accountant's environment in the service, trade, and manufacturing industry in Indonesia. The researcher tested the hypotheses by using a Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with Partial Least Squares (PLS). Three of five hypotheses in this research are supported. The result of this research shows both personality trait, extraversion and neuroticism, affect to whistleblowing, and affective commitment not mediates the relationship between extraversion and neuroticism to whistleblowing.

Relationships between job characteristics, work engagement, conscientiousness and managers’ turnover intentions

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Upasna A. Agarwal ◽  
Vishal Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Work Engagement ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Turnover Intention ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Turnover Intentions ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose Integrating the job demands-resources theory and the conservation of resources theory, the purpose of this paper is to develop and test a moderated-mediation model examining the relationships between motivating job characteristics, work engagement, conscientiousness and managers’ turnover intentions. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected using a survey questionnaire from 1,302 managers working in eight Indian private sector organizations. Structural equation modeling and hierarchical regression analysis were used to test the hypothesized relationships between the study variables. Findings The study found evidence of the mediating role of work engagement for the relationship between motivating job characteristics and managers’ turnover intentions. Conscientiousness moderated the relationship between work engagement and turnover intention. The total and indirect effects of motivating job characteristics on turnover intention were moderated by conscientiousness. Research limitations/implications The study was cross-sectional, so inferences about causality are limited. Practical implications The findings of this study reaffirm the crucial role of job characteristics in influencing work engagement and turnover intention. By examining work engagement as a mediator for the job characteristics-turnover intention relationship, this study explores the process through which job characteristics are associated with turnover intention. The findings of the moderating influence of contentiousness on the relationship of direct and indirect effects of job characteristics suggests that individual personality can influence social exchanges as well as managerial attitudes and behaviors in multiple ways. Originality/value The study provides an insight into the underlying process through which job characteristics are related to managers’ turnover intentions. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, such a study is the first of its kind.

Factors Affecting the Relationship Between Stress and Anxiety in Critically Ill Patients: A Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling Approach

2021 ◽  
pp. 105477382110623
Author(s):  
Chun-Ying Shih ◽  
Hsiang-Chu Pai
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Illness Representation ◽  
Apache Score ◽  
Treatment Control ◽  
Icu Patients ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Relationship

This study aimed to examine the factors affecting the relationship between stress and anxiety in critically ill patients. A cross-sectional research paradigm was employed to enroll patients admitted to the medical intensive care unit (ICU) of a medical university hospital. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was used to examine the data. A total of 90 ICU patients were included in this study; 56 were men and 34 were women. The patients’ mean age was 65.3 years. Only the emotional responses dimension of illness was significantly positively correlated with stress. However, the emotional responses dimension of illness representation, acute physiology and chronic health evaluation system (APACHE) score, age, and education level were significantly positively correlated with anxiety. Nevertheless, treatment control was significantly negatively correlated with anxiety. Overall, illness representations (emotional responses and treatment control), APACHE score, age, and education were important predictors of anxiety, with an explanatory power of 37.9%. We recommend that for clinically relevant practice, besides focusing on ICU patients’ illness representation, attention should also be paid to their individual characteristics, such as differences in age and education levels.

Mediating effect of satisfaction in the relationship between customer experience and intention to reuse digital banks in Korea

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Jae Woo Shin
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Customer Experience ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Customer Engagement ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Bank Management ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Mediation Models ◽  
Financial Technology

Digital banks based on new transaction systems, such as those developed in financial technology contexts, have begun to challenge and compete with traditional banks. Against this backdrop, in this study I examined how customer experience of digital banking, including usefulness, convenience, employee–customer engagement, and security, affected their satisfaction and reuse intention, and how customer satisfaction mediated the relationship between customer experience and reuse intention. To do this I conducted a survey with 247 Korean digital bank users. Structural equation modeling was used to test the relationships between the variables and further compare full and partial mediation models. The empirical results reveal that the four customer experience variables positively influenced reuse intention through satisfaction. These findings add to understanding of the mechanisms of customer reuse of digital banks, and provide practitioners with meaningful implications for developing strategies to improve customer and bank management.

scholarly journals Reputation, Loneliness, Satisfaction with Life and Aggressive Behavior in Adolescence

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 192-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofía Buelga ◽  
Gonzalo Musitu ◽  
Sergio Murgui ◽  
Javier Pons
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
Aggressive Behavior ◽  
Indirect Effect ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Statistical Analyses ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
The Relationship

The present study analyses the relationship between adolescents' perception of reputation and aggressive behavior among peers. The sample is made up of 1319 adolescents aged 11 to 16 years old. Statistical analyses with structural equation modeling were carried out to examine the direct and indirect effect of perception of reputation (real and ideal) on aggressive behavior. Results indicate that adolescents' real and ideal reputations are related both directly and indirectly to aggressive behavior. The indirect effects suggest that loneliness and life satisfaction mediate the relationship between adolescents' reputation and their aggressive behavior. These findings and their implications are discussed.

Impact of rumination and regret on depression among new employees in China

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (9) ◽  
pp. 1499-1509
Author(s):  
Xiaobo Yu ◽  
Junbo Chen ◽  
Shanshan Zhao ◽  
Xiaodong Yu
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Direct And Indirect Effects ◽  
New Employees ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

We examined the mediating effect of regret in the relationship between rumination and depression in new employees in China. Newly employed staff members of 2 Chinese firms (N = 376) completed a survey to measure their rumination, regret, and depression. We used structural equation modeling to test the mediating effect of regret in this relationship, and bootstrapping methods to assess the magnitude of the direct and indirect effects. The results indicated that the direct effect of rumination on depression was significant. We also found a significant indirect effect of rumination on depression through the mediator of regret. The findings extend those of prior studies and shed light on how rumination affects depression among new employees in China, in that regret can partially mediate the effect of rumination on depression.

Reflective or impulsive buying or both? Evidence from the sport merchandise consumption context

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (11) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Chen-Yueh Chen ◽  
Yi-Hsiu Lin ◽  
Chen-Yin Lee ◽  
Yen-Kuang Lin ◽  
Min-Chieh Chuang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Practical Implication ◽  
Sport Marketing ◽  
Path Model ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Celebrity Endorsement ◽  
Intention To Purchase ◽  
Basketball Game ◽  
Impulsive Buying ◽  
The Relationship

We examined the effects of reflective and impulsive intentions on product purchasing in the sport merchandise context (specifically, basketball shoes), and investigated the moderating effects of a celebrity endorsement on these relationships. We used convenience sampling to collect data from 826 basketball game attendees in Taiwan. We conducted structural equation modeling with a 2-group overall path model for data analysis. The empirical results revealed that reflective and impulsive determinants both positively predicted the intention to purchase basketball shoes. In addition, celebrity endorsement moderated the relationship between reflective and impulsive intentions to buy the product. A practical implication of our findings is that if sport marketing practitioners know that celebrity endorsement strengthens both reflective and impulsive intentions, they would develop more effective marketing strategies.

scholarly journals Direct and Indirect Effects of Perceived Risk and Website Reputation on Purchase Intention

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Chatpong Tangmanee ◽  
Chayanin Rawsena
Keyword(s):  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Purchase Intention ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Online Trust ◽  
Online Stores ◽  
Customer Trust

Success in electronic commerce relies greatly on customer trust. While other studies have examined various factors affecting online customer trust, few have investigated the joint effects of perceived risk and website reputation on purchase intention using online trust as a mediator. The current study attempts to fill this gap. 300 online shoppers participated via web-based questionnaires using a quota sampling technique. Based on confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), our measurements were found to be valid and reliable. Using structural equation modeling (SEM), we confirmed significant direct effects of perceived risk and website reputation on customer purchase intentions. Furthermore, both factors had significant indirect effects on purchase intention through online trust. In addition to extending theoretical insight into online trust as a mediator for the effects of perceived risk and website reputation on purchase intention, web-based vendors may adopt the findings to adjust their online stores to raise customer trust and ultimately increase the possibility of online purchases.

scholarly journals Female Users’ Behavioral Intention to Purchase in Social Commerce through Social Networking Sites

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Phyo Min Tun
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Social Commerce ◽  
Intention To Purchase ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Effect

The present study aims to discover the relationship among social influence, verbal influence, easiness, trust, enjoyment, and intention to purchase in social commerce (S-Commerce), particularly by female users of social networking sites (SNS). A total of 280 responses were collected from female SNS users through an online survey. The obtained data were further examined for normality, construct validity, reliability, and model fit, using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to test the hypotheses. This study confirmed that social influence had a significant effect on verbal influence and trust; meanwhile enjoyment was influenced by trust and easiness. The results also revealed that trust and enjoyment had a positive effect on intention to purchase products or services from social commerce by the female SNS users. Moreover, verbal influence provided an impact on trust and easiness; while the relationship between social influence and enjoyment, easiness, and trust was not significant. These results contribute to offering fruitful insights for sellers and vendors of social commerce in attracting and acquiring the attention of female customers; as a result, it leads to achieving higher profits and flourishing business activities in social commerce.

scholarly journals Synthesizing Indirect Effects in Mediation Models with Meta-Analytic Methods

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike W.-L. Cheung
Keyword(s):  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Underlying Mechanism ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Outcome Variable ◽  
Correlation Matrices ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Mediation Models

A mediator is a variable that explains the underlying mechanism between an independent variable and a dependent variable. The indirect effect indicates the effect from the predictor to the outcome variable via the mediator. In contrast, the direct effect represents the effect of the predictor on the outcome variable after controlling for the mediator. A single study rarely provides enough evidence to answer research questions in a particular domain. Replications are generally recommended as the gold standard to conduct scientific research. When a sufficient number of studies have been conducted addressing similar research questions, a meta-analysis can be used to synthesize the findings of those studies. The main objective of this paper is to introduce two approaches to integrating studies using mediation analysis. The first approach involves calculating standardized indirect effects and direct effects and conducting a multivariate meta-analysis on those effect sizes. The second approach uses meta-analytic structural equation modeling to synthesize correlation matrices and fit mediation models on the average correlation matrix. We illustrate these procedures on a real dataset using the R statistical platform. This paper closes with some further directions for future studies.ind

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