Implementing Gamified Teaching

Positive Effects ◽

Perceived Relevance ◽

In this study, a gamification process was implemented in an undergraduate course of Economics that consisted 397 students. The primary purpose of the research was to empirically validate the effects of gamification in terms of the variables of engagement, motivation, entertainment, perceived relevance of the course, knowledge increase and participation. To ascertain these, a questionnaire was administered to the participants. The results indicated that gamification provided significant positive effect on all variables listed above except motivation. Additional objectives of the article were to link the effects to Marczewski’s player types, namely, Philanthropists, Socialisers, Free spirits, Achievers, Players, and Disruptors, and to measure whether there are differences between the types in terms of the variables indicated above. Gamification resulted in positive effects on all player types except the player type of Disruptors.

The Structural Relationship among Perceived Service Quality, Perceived Value, and Customer Satisfaction-Focused on Starbucks Reserve Coffee Shops in Shanghai, China

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13158633 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (15) ◽

pp. 8633

Author(s):

Yuhan Ge ◽

Qing Yuan ◽

Yaxi Wang ◽

Keunsoo Park

Keyword(s):

Customer Satisfaction ◽

Service Quality ◽

Behavioral Intention ◽

Perceived Value ◽

Coffee Shop ◽

Perceived Service Quality ◽

Positive Effects ◽

Coffee Shops ◽

In today’s increasingly competitive coffee industry, the point of running a good coffee shop is no longer to run a coffee and beverage shop simply, but to focus on the quality of service and the value that customers feel as a result. Previous studies have mainly discussed the customer satisfaction and behavioral intention of restaurants, while few studies have explored the influencing factors of customer satisfaction and behavioral intention of chain coffee shops. Given that the perceived service quality theory and DINESERV model can effectively predict customer satisfaction and behavioral intention, this study took 385 consumers in the first Starbucks Reserve flagship store in China as survey objects. SmartPLS 3.0 software was used to explore the relationship among respondents’ perceived service quality, customer perceived value, satisfaction, and behavioral intention. The results show that service quality has a partially significant positive effect on perceived value. Perceived service quality and customers’ perceived value both have significant positive effects on satisfaction. Customers’ satisfaction has a significant positive effect on their behavioral intention. These results indicate that enterprises should strengthen the emotional bond between consumers and enterprises and improve the reliability, assurance, and empathy of perceived service quality to create a better emotional resonance between consumers and the Starbucks brand to improve customer satisfaction. At the same time, it should also promote the symbolic perceived value of Chinese consumers to Starbucks to realize the sustainable development of coffee-shop operation and consumer repurchase. This study expands the research on the service quality, perceived value, and behavioral intention of coffee chain enterprises in the context of non-habitual coffee-drinking countries. Moreover, it provides case support for the operation and research of regional cultural consumption habits of international catering chain enterprises.

Influences of Reference Group on Users’ Purchase Intentions in Network Communities: From the Perspective of Trial Purchase and Upgrade Purchase

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su122410619 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (24) ◽

pp. 10619

Author(s):

Shuiping Ding ◽

Jie Lin ◽

Zhenyu Zhang

Keyword(s):

Product Information ◽

Reference Group ◽

Purchase Intentions ◽

Online Marketing ◽

Normative Influence ◽

Positive Effects ◽

Network Communities ◽

The Relationship ◽

Reference group is an important factor influencing users’ purchase in the network communities. The reference group’s influences involve informative influence and normative influence, and users’ purchases are divided into the trial purchase and upgrade purchase. In different purchases, users have different product information, consumer experience, and purchase attitudes, making different responses to the reference group. Thus, a research model of reference groups’ influences on users’ purchase intentions from the perspective of trial purchase and upgrade purchase is constructed. The model and hypotheses are tested by analyzing 349 valid questionnaires. The results indicate that both informative and normative influences have significant positive effects on users’ trial purchase intentions. Informative influence has a significant positive effect on users’ upgrade intentions, while the normative influence on users’ upgrade purchase intentions is not significant. Both informative influence and normative influence have significant positive effects on trust in the product. Trust in the product has a significant positive effect on trial purchase intentions, but its effect on upgrade purchase intentions is not significant. Purchase involvement positively regulates the relationship between informative influence and trial purchase intentions and negatively regulates the relationship between informative influence and upgrade purchase intentions. The results further enrich the theoretical system of users’ purchase behaviors in a virtual environment. The research can also have important implications for network communities wishing to improve online marketing.

The importance of spirituality dimensions in the development of entrepreneurship

Diponegoro International Journal of Business ◽

10.14710/dijb.1.2.2018.55-70 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 55

Author(s):

Hani Sirine ◽

Elisabeth Penti Kurniawati

Keyword(s):

Entrepreneurial Intention ◽

Human Being ◽

Multiple Linear Regressions ◽

Entrepreneurial Success ◽

Positive Effects ◽

Analysis Technique ◽

Positive Effect ◽

Linear Regressions ◽

Entrepreneurial Networking

Human being as spiritual being needs to be nurtured spiritually so that they can be optimal in their work and their calling. Actualization of this calling can be made through entrepreneurship. The purpose of this study is to determine the importance of spiritual dimensions (vision, faith/hope, love altruistic, meaning/calling, membership) in the development of entrepreneurship (entrepreneurship intention, entrepreneurial networking, entrepreneurial capability, and entrepreneurial success). The analysis technique of this study uses multiple linear regressions with a sample of 67 graduates of Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana (UKSW) who have had and run their own business. The results show that the spirituality dimensions (vision, faith/hope, altruistic love, meaning/calling, membership) significantly influence entrepreneurial intention, entrepreneurial networking, entrepreneurial capability, and entrepreneurial success. When it is tested partially, the significant positive effect on entrepreneurial intention is vision and faith/hope. Faith/hope also has significant positive effects on entrepreneurial networking. Vision, faith/hope, and meaning/calling has significant positive effects on entrepreneurial capabilities. Lastly, faith/hope, and meaning/calling has significant positive effects on entrepreneurial success.

The Impacts of Tax Examinations, Tax Sanctions and Tax Hostage (Gijzeling) on Taxpayers’ Formal Compliance

Riset ◽

10.35212/riset.v1i2.25 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 143-152

Author(s):

Dewi Puspitasari

Keyword(s):

Regression Analysis ◽

Data Analysis ◽

Linear Regression ◽

Multiple Linear Regression ◽

Sampling Method ◽

Linear Regression Analysis ◽

Multiple Linear Regression Analysis ◽

Positive Effects ◽

The purpose of this study is to determine whether there are impacts of tax audits (X1), tax sanctions (X2), and tax holdings (X3), on formal compliance of taxpayers (Y). The population in this study is the taxpayers registered with KPP Cibitung who live in RW 030 Tambun South. The samples consist of 100 taxpayers using an explanatory sampling method. This type of research is quantitative. The data analysis uses multiple linear regression analysis with SPSS version 25.0 program. Based on data analysis, the results of this study indicate that partially tax audits (X1), tax sanctions (X2), and tax hostage (gijzeling) (X3) have a significant positive effect on taxpayers’ formal compliance (Y). Meanwhile simultaneously tax audits (X1), tax sanctions (X2) and tax hostage (gijzeling) (X3) have significant positive effects on taxpayers’ formal compliance of (Y), with an Adjusted R Square value of 0.444 or 44.4%.

Influence Mechanism of The Affordances of Chronic Disease Management Apps on Continuance Intention: Mediating Role of Health Empowerment (Preprint)

10.2196/preprints.21831 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Yongmei Liu ◽

Peiyang Lin ◽

Fei Jiang

Keyword(s):

Chronic Disease ◽

Disease Management ◽

Chronic Disease Management ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Continuance Intention ◽

Positive Effects ◽

Health Empowerment ◽

BACKGROUND Mobile health apps are becoming increasingly popular, and they provide opportunities for effective health management. The existing chronic disease management (CDM) apps cannot meet users’ practical and urgent needs, and user adhesion is poor. Few, however, have investigated the factors that influence the continuance intention (CI) of CDM app users. OBJECTIVE Starting from the affordances of CDM apps, this study aimed to analyze how such apps can influence CI through the role of health empowerment (HE). METHODS Adopting a stimulus-organism-response framework, an antecedent model was established for CI from the perspective of perceived affordances, uses and gratifications theory, and HE. Perceived affordances were used as the “stimulus,” users’ gratifications and HE were used as the “organism,” and CI was used as the “response.” Data were collected online through a well-known questionnaire survey platform in China. 323 valid questionnaires were obtained. The theoretical model was tested using structural equation modeling. RESULTS Perceived connection affordances (PCA) were found to have significant positive effects on social interactivity gratification (SIG) (t=6.201, P<.001) and informativeness gratification (IG) (t=5.068, P<.001). Perceived utilitarian affordances (PUA) had significant positive effects on IG (t=7.029, P<.001), technology gratification (TG) (t=8.404, P<.001), and functions gratification (FG) (t=9.812, P<.001). Perceived hedonic affordances (PHA) had significant positive effects on FG (t=5.305, P<.001) and enjoyment gratification (EG) (t=13.768, P<.001). Five gratifications (t=2.767, P<.01; t=4.632, P<.001; t=7.608, P<.001; t=2.496, P<.05; t=5.088, P<.001) had significant positive effect on HE. SIG, IG, and FG had significant positive effects on CI. TG and EG had no significant effect on CI. HE had a significant positive effect on CI. HE and gratifications play mediating roles in the influence of affordances on CI. CONCLUSIONS HE and gratifications of users' needs are effective ways to promote CI. The gratifications of users' needs can realize HE and then inspire CI. Affordances are key antecedents that affects gratifications of users' needs, HE and CI.

How Environmental Awareness and Knowledge Affect Urban Residents’ Willingness to Participate in Rubber Plantation Ecological Restoration Programs: Evidence from Hainan, China

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13041852 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 1852

Author(s):

Yu Gan ◽

Tao Xu ◽

NengRui Xu ◽

JiLv Xu ◽

Dan Qiao

Keyword(s):

Ecological Restoration ◽

Local Governments ◽

Environmental Awareness ◽

Rapid Expansion ◽

Environmental Knowledge ◽

Rubber Plantation ◽

Willingness To Participate ◽

Positive Effects ◽

The rapid expansion of rubber plantations in Asian countries has led to various environmental problems. Therefore, local governments are implementing rubber plantation ecological restoration (RPER) programs as an essential solution. However, such programs can be implemented only if residents are intensely involved. Based on a survey of 521 urban households in Hainan Province, China, this study investigates the effect of environmental awareness and knowledge on residents’ willingness to participate in RPER programs. We employ a double-hurdle (DH) model to estimate residents’ participation in two stages. First, we determine whether residents wish to participate or not (PN). Then, we measure residents’ degree of willingness to participate (DWP). The results show that residents’ environmental awareness has a significant positive effect on whether they wish to PN but has no impact on their DWP. By contrast, residents’ environmental knowledge has a significant positive effect on whether they wish to PN and their DWP. The moderating effect shows that residents’ environmental knowledge significantly weakens the positive effects of their environmental awareness on whether they wish to PN. Moreover, residents’ age, educational level, employment, and place of residence substantially influence their DWP. The findings in this study can provide useful insights for policymaking on improving rubber plantation ecosystems.

Is Resource Change a Useful Predictor of Carrion Insect Succession on Pigs and Humans?

Journal of Medical Entomology ◽

10.1093/jme/tjab072 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Blake M Dawson ◽

James F Wallman ◽

Maldwyn J Evans ◽

Philip S Barton

Keyword(s):

Species Richness ◽

Ambient Temperature ◽

Community Composition ◽

Species Turnover ◽

Rapid Change ◽

Insect Species ◽

Insect Community ◽

Positive Effects ◽

Abstract Carrion is a dynamic and nutrient-rich resource that attracts numerous insect species that undergo succession due to the rapid change in the carrion resource. Despite this process being well-understood, few studies have examined resource change as a driver of carrion insect succession, and instead have focused on the effects of time per se, or on coarse, qualitative measures such as decay stage. Here we report on three field succession experiments using pig carcasses and human cadavers encompassing two winters and one summer. We quantified the effects of resource change (measured as total body score, TBS), carrion type, initial carrion mass, ambient temperature, and season on insect species richness and community composition. We found that all variables had an effect on different taxonomic or trophic components of the insect community composition, with the exception of initial carrion mass which had no effect. We found significant positive effects of TBS on beetle species richness and composition, while fly species richness was not significantly affected by TBS, but was by ambient temperature. TBS had a significant positive effect on all trophic groups, while ambient temperature also had a significant positive effect on the necrophages and predator/parasitoids. Our study indicates that resource change, as indicated by TBS, is an important driver of carrion insect species turnover and succession on carrion, and that TBS can provide information about insect ecological patterns on carrion that other temporal measures of change cannot.

Identifying the Most Autonomy-Supportive Message Frame in Digital Health Communication: A 2x2 Between-Subjects Experiment

Journal of Medical Internet Research ◽

10.2196/14074 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 21 (10) ◽

pp. e14074 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Eline Suzanne Smit ◽

Chamoetal Zeidler ◽

Ken Resnicow ◽

Hein de Vries

Keyword(s):

Health Communication ◽

Autonomy Support ◽

Vegetable Intake ◽

Digital Health ◽

Message Frame ◽

Overall Evaluation ◽

Perceived Relevance ◽

Perceived Autonomy Support ◽

Background The effectiveness of digital health communication may be increased by enhancing autonomy supportiveness. Objective This study aimed to identify the most autonomy-supportive message frame within an intervention for increasing vegetable intake by testing the effect of the following 2 strategies: (1) using autonomy-supportive language and (2) providing choice. Methods A Web-based 2 (autonomy-supportive vs controlling language)×2 (choice vs no choice) experiment was conducted among 526 participants, recruited via a research panel. The main outcome measures were perceived autonomy support (measured using the Virtual Care Climate Questionnaire, answered with scores 1 to 5), perceived relevance (measured with one question, answered with scores 1 to 5), and overall evaluation of the intervention (measured with 1 open-ended question, answered with scores 1 to 10). Results Choice had a significant positive effect on the overall evaluation of the intervention (b=.12; P=.003), whereas for participants with a high need for autonomy, there was a significant positive effect on perceived relevance (b=.13; P=.02). The positive effect of choice on perceived autonomy support approached significance (b=.07; P=.07). No significant effects on any of the three outcomes were observed for language. Conclusions Results suggest that provision of choice rather than the use of autonomy-supportive language can be an easy-to-implement strategy to increase the effectiveness of digital forms of health communication, especially for people with a high need for autonomy.

Inequality and COVID-19 Deaths and Cases in the First Wave, a Cross-Country Analysis Economic

Canadian Public Policy ◽

10.3138/cpp.2021-033 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol COVID-19 ◽

pp. e2020157

Author(s):

James B. Davies

Keyword(s):

Gini Coefficient ◽

The United States ◽

Poverty Measure ◽

Full Sample ◽

Positive Effects ◽

The Gini Coefficient ◽

Per Capita ◽

Cross Country ◽

The cross-country relationship of COVID-19 case and death rates with previously measured income inequality and poverty in the pandemic’s first wave is studied, controlling for other underlying factors, in a worldwide sample of countries. If the estimated associations are interpreted as causal, the Gini coefficient for income has a significant positive effect on both cases and deaths per capita in regressions using the full sample, and for cases although not for deaths when OECD and non-OECD subsamples are treated separately. The Gini coefficient for wealth has a significant positive effect on cases, but not on deaths, in both subsamples and the full sample. Poverty generally has weak positive effects in the full and non-OECD samples, but a relative poverty measure has a strong positive effect on cases in the OECD sample. Analysis of the gap between COVID-19 first-wave cases and deaths per capita in Canada and the higher rates in the United States indicates that 37% of the cases gap and 28% of the deaths gap could be attributed to the higher income Gini in the U.S. according to the full sample regressions.

Influencing Factors of Intention to Use Mobile Devices for Reading

International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning ◽

10.4018/ijmbl.2021070102 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 19-35

Author(s):

Pinghao Ye ◽

Liqiong Liu

Keyword(s):

Structural Equation ◽

Causal Model ◽

Perceived Usefulness ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Intention To Use ◽

Positive Effects ◽

Continuous Use ◽

The Relationship ◽

This research studied the continuous use intention of mobile reading users. The current study used the stimulus-organism-response model as a basis to build a causal model of mobile readers' continuous intention to use it. A questionnaire survey was conducted involving 327 users to obtain the current research data. Structural equation modeling was used to empirically test the relationship amongst variables in the conceptual model. Results are as follows. Perceived pleasure, perceived service, immersion, and perceived sociality had a significant positive effect on intention for continuous use. Particularly, perceived pleasure had a significant positive effect on immersion and perceived service. Perceived usefulness and perceptual interest had significant positive effects on perceived pleasure. Perceived sociality had a regulating effect on the relationship between perceived pleasure and intention for continuous use. Lastly, perceived sociality had a regulating effect on the relationship between immersion and intention for continuous use.