Antecedents of Online Game Dependency

Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) dependency has been widely studied but research results suggest inconclusive antecedent causes. This study proposes and empirically tests three predictive models of MMOG dependency using a survey of online gaming participants. It finds multimedia realism for social interaction serves as an original antecedent factor affecting other mediating factors to cause MMOG dependency. These mediating factors derive from Uses and Gratifications theory and include: (1) participation in a virtual community, (2) diversion from everyday life, and (3) a pleasant aesthetic experience. Of these, participation in a virtual community has a strong positive relationship with MMOG dependency, and aesthetics has a modest negative relationship. Moderator analyses suggest neither gender nor “frequency of game playing” are significant but experience playing online games is a significant moderating factor of MMOG dependency.

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Virtual Community and Online Game Players

Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch232 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 1757-1763

Author(s):

Jengchung V. Chen ◽

Yu-Hsiang Wang

Keyword(s):

Information And Communication Technology ◽

Communication Technology ◽

Virtual Communities ◽

Virtual Community ◽

Online Games ◽

The Internet ◽

Online Game ◽

Internet Users ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Game Players

Since the Internet and other IT technologies have become more popular than ever before, the amount of time people spend with computers and IT products, such as Internet and online games, has increased tremendously. The continuing boom of information and communication technology is causing the Internet to become a part of everyone’s life. People use the Internet not only as a tool for their jobs, but also to participate in virtual communities. Even if the rate of Internet uptake slows considerably (Weisenbacher, 2002), the trend still remains growing. There were 275.5 million people using the Internet in February 2000. That number had changed to 605.60 million in September 2002 (Nua Ltd., 2002). According to Horrigan’s study (2001), 84 percent of Internet users in America have participated in a virtual community. Moreover, apart from the number of people using Internet, the average time spent doing any activity online is increasing.

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Five-Minute Awake Snoring Test for Determining CPAP Pressures (Five-Minute CPAP Test): A Pilot Study

Sleep Disorders ◽

10.1155/2016/7380874 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 2016 ◽

pp. 1-8 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Macario Camacho ◽

Chad M. Ruoff ◽

Makoto Kawai ◽

Rahul Modi ◽

Jabri Arbee ◽

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Keyword(s):

Pilot Study ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

Water Pressure ◽

Negative Relationship ◽

Case Series ◽

Apnea Hypopnea Index ◽

Nasal Cpap ◽

Strong Positive Relationship ◽

Bedside Test ◽

Obstructive Sleep

Objective. To develop a quick, simple, bedside test for determining continuous positive airway pressures (CPAP) for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients.Study Design. Prospective case series at a tertiary medical center.Methods. The Five-Minute Awake Snoring Test for Determining CPAP (Five-Minute CPAP Test) was developed and tested. Patients wear a soft-gel nasal triangle mask while holding a tongue depressor with the wide section (1.75 cm) between the teeth. Fixed pressure nasal CPAP is applied while the patient simulates snoring at 4 centimeters of water pressure. The pressure is incrementally titrated up and then down to determine the lowest pressure at which the patient cannot snore (Quiet Pressure).Results. Overall, thirty-eight patients participated. All could simulate snoring. Correlation coefficients were statistically significant between Quiet Pressures and body mass index (rs=0.60[strong positive relationship],p=0.0088), apnea-hypopnea index (rs=0.49[moderate positive relationship],p=0.039), lowest oxygen saturation (rs=-0.47[moderate negative relationship],p=0.048), and oxygen desaturation index (rs=0.62[strong positive relationship],p=0.0057).Conclusion. This pilot study introduces a new concept, which is the final product of over one year of exploration, development, and testing. Five-Minute CPAP Test is a quick, inexpensive, and safe bedside test based on supine awake simulated snoring with nasal CPAP.

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Liquidity, Growth and Profitability of Non-financial Public Listed Malaysia: A Malaysian Evidence

International Journal of Financial Research ◽

10.5430/ijfr.v10n3p194 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 194

Author(s):

Mazurina Mohd Ali ◽

Nik Noor Ayu Nik Hussin ◽

Erlane K Ghani

Keyword(s):

Firm Growth ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

Negative Relationship ◽

Sustainable Growth ◽

Return On Equity ◽

Listed Firms ◽

Financial Firms ◽

Strong Positive Relationship ◽

Sustainable Growth Rate ◽

The Relationship

This study examines the relationship between liquidity, growth and profitability of non-financial firms listed on the Bursa Malaysia. Specifically, this study examines the relationship between liquidity and growth on profitability for 50 non-financial public listed firms in Malaysia. Using panel data technique on 250 observations across a five-year period, this study shows that liquidity has a strong positive relationship with profitability in terms of return on asset of the firms. However, liquidity in terms of quick ratio has no impact on profitability. This study also shows that firm growth in terms of sales growth has a negative relationship with profitability. However, this study shows that liquidity and growth in general do not influence profitability in terms of return on equity, although the result shows that sustainable growth rate has a positive relationship on profitability. This study highlights the importance of these measures in measuring performance. The findings in this study provide guidelines to the firms on the measures that best to be used in evaluating performance so that appropriate strategies can be adopted to increase performance.

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Role of Microfinance for Entrepreneurial Success

International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation ◽

10.4018/ijeei.2021010101 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 1-16

Author(s):

Mufaro Dzingirai ◽

Neeta Baporikar

Keyword(s):

Regression Analysis ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

Negative Relationship ◽

Business Owners ◽

Entrepreneurial Success ◽

Scale Type ◽

Correlation And Regression Analysis ◽

Strong Positive Relationship ◽

Spearman’S Correlation

The main objective of the paper is to analyze the influence of microfinance on entrepreneurial success of Zimbabwean SMEs. Adopting explanatory research design with a sample that constitutes 120 business owners of SMEs in Gweru district data collection was through questionnaire administering that used Likert scale-type questions. The hypotheses are analyzed using Spearman's correlation and regression analysis in order to empirically establish the influence of microfinance on entrepreneurial success. The main regression results show a strong positive relationship between microfinance and entrepreneurial success, a weak negative relationship between the business owner's age and entrepreneurial success, and a positive relationship between the level of studies and entrepreneurial success of Zimbabwean SMEs.

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THE IMPACT OF NEUROTICISM ON LEISURE SATISFACTION: ONLINE GAME APPLICATION

Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal ◽

10.2224/sbp.2007.35.10.1399 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 35 (10) ◽

pp. 1399-1404 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

HILL HUNG-JEN TU ◽

LILY SHUI-LIEN CHEN ◽

MICHAEL CHIH-HUNG WANG ◽

JULIA YING-CHAO LIN

Keyword(s):

Data Analysis ◽

Negative Relationship ◽

Online Games ◽

Systematic Sampling ◽

Game Playing ◽

Online Game ◽

Leisure Satisfaction ◽

The World ◽

Final Data ◽

The Impact

This study was designed to uncover the impact of neuroticism on leisure satisfaction based on online games in Taiwan, the country that has the second largest online game-playing market in the world. A systematic sampling produced 500 usable questionnaires for the final data analysis. The findings indicate a negative relationship between neuroticism and leisure satisfaction. This research therefore provides evidence that overall leisure satisfaction decreases in persons with a greater neuroticism tendency.

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Were Bifaces used as Mobile Cores by Clovis Foragers in the North American Lower Great Lakes Region? An Archaeological Test of Experimentally Derived Quantitative Predictions

American Antiquity ◽

10.7183/0002-7316.78.1.166 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 78 (1) ◽

pp. 166-180 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

Metin I. Eren ◽

Brian N. Andrews

Keyword(s):

Great Lakes ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

Negative Relationship ◽

Great Lakes Region ◽

Flake Thickness ◽

The North ◽

Strong Positive Relationship ◽

The Mean ◽

Experimental Replication ◽

Mitigating Behavior

AbstractThe notion that Paleoindians used bifaces as “mobile cores” is widespread in Late Pleistocene lithic research, although it can be difficult to test empirically. Here, we use experimental replication to establish two quantitative predictions that would be indicative of biface-core transport. If bifaces are being used as mobile cores, then we should see among a group of sites of varying toolstone procurement distances (a) a negative relationship between toolstone procurement distance and the mean unifacial tool maximum-thickness value from each site; and (b) a negative relationship between toolstone procurement distance and the variability (standard deviation) of maximum flake thickness values from each site. We then test these predictions against data from six Clovis sites of varying toolstone procurement distance in the Lower Great Lakes region. The results show that both sets of data possess a strong, positive relationship with increasing toolstone procurement distance, which is inconsistent with the notion that biface-cores were transported. Since the Clovis presence in the Lower Great Lakes is widely acknowledged to be a colonization pulse, we conclude that the lack of biface-core transport there is an economizing and risk-mitigating behavior consistent with the models of Kuhn (1994) and Meltzer (2002, 2003, 2004).

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ALLOCENTRISM AND CONSUMER ETHNOCENTRISM: THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL IDENTITY ON PURCHASE INTENTION

Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal ◽

10.2224/sbp.2008.36.8.1097 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 36 (8) ◽

pp. 1097-1110 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Yu-An Huang ◽

Ian Phau ◽

Chad Lin ◽

Hsien-Jui Chung ◽

Koong Hao-Chiang Lin

Keyword(s):

Social Identity ◽

Purchase Intention ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

Negative Relationship ◽

Mediating Effect ◽

Consumer Ethnocentrism ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Korean Wave ◽

Strong Positive Relationship ◽

The Impact

In this article the authors examine the effects of allocentrism and consumer ethnocentrism (CET) on intentions to purchase domestic versus imported products, focusing on the current phenomenon of the “Korean Wave” in Taiwan. Results based on data collected from 433 mall intercept interviews in Taiwan indicate that there is a strong positive relationship between allocentrism toward parents and CET. However, a significantly negative relationship between allocentrism toward friends and CET was also found. It was also found that friends' in-group attitude toward Korean television dramas has a mediating effect of allocentrism toward friends on CET and CET on intention to buy Korean products. In this study, it was found that CET played a mediating role between allocentrism toward parents and friends and purchase intention. This ethnocentric effect was attributed to parental and friends' in-groups which significantly enhanced and reduced, respectively, the impact of intergroup discrimination, making national identification a less obvious and important social category. These findings have significant implications for domestic and foreign marketers.

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Toward an Understanding of Uses and Gratifications Theory and the Sense of Virtual Community on Knowledge Sharing in Online Game Communities

International Journal of Information and Education Technology ◽

10.7763/ijiet.2015.v5.552 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 5 (6) ◽

pp. 472-476 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Yu-Wei Chuang

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Sharing ◽

Uses And Gratifications ◽

Virtual Community ◽

Online Game ◽

Uses And Gratifications Theory

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Advance Placement and The Achievement Gap in the 21st Century: A Multiple Linear Regression of Marginalized Populations in AP Enrollment

Research in Social Sciences and Technology ◽

10.46303/ressat.02.02.2 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Bonnie Bittman ◽

Alex Davies ◽

William B. Russell ◽

Ekaterina Goussakova

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Advanced Placement ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

Negative Relationship ◽

Marginalized Populations ◽

High Poverty ◽

Poor Students ◽

Strong Positive Relationship ◽

Enrollment Rates ◽

Caucasian Students

The analysis of the College Board's Advanced Placement (AP) enrollment focused on marginalized populations' (i.e., African American, Hispanic, and poor students) limited access and the schools' efforts to bridge the gaps. Little research has been done on marginalized populations' AP passage rates. The researchers of this correlational study investigated AP enrollment and passage rates in public and charter high schools in Florida (n = 355) by comparing the enrollment and passage proportions amongst Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic students as well as the proportions of students who received free or reduced lunch. The results showed a weak, positive relationship between proportions of Hispanic, African American, and Caucasian students passing AP exams and the proportion of AP students enrolled. There was a strong, positive relationship amongst the proportions of African-American, Hispanic, and Caucasian students who passed the exam. However, a weak, negative relationship was found between the proportions of students who were enrolled in AP classes and those who received free or reduced lunch. There was also a negative relationship between Hispanic, African American, and Caucasian students passing the AP exam and the percentage of the school's population enrolled in free or reduced lunch. The findings suggest that schools with high poverty rates have a low enrollment rate of students in AP courses. The focus on AP enrollment rates for minority students has led to increased rates of minorities successfully completing advanced coursework, but there is still a need for similar focus on high poverty schools.

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