Showing papers in "Computers in Human Behavior in 2009"

TL;DR: Investigation of how the Five-Factor Model of personality relates to Facebook use indicated that personality factors were not as influential as previous literature would suggest, but a motivation to communicate was influential in terms of Facebook use.

TL;DR: The proposed model is proven with the effectiveness in explaining the relationships among service quality, perceived value, customer satisfaction, and post-purchase intention in mobile added-value services.

TL;DR: Social networking websites should inform potential users that risk taking and privacy concerns are potentially relevant and important concerns before individuals sign-up and create social networking websites.

TL;DR: The proposed model brings together extant research on mobile payment and provides an important cluster of antecedents to eventual technology acceptance via constructs of behavioral intention to use and actual system usage.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that users' perceived usefulness and perceived enjoyment significantly influence their attitude towards using IM, which in turn impacts their behavioral intention, which determines their actual usage behavior.

TL;DR: This study uses the Technology Acceptance Model as the foundation and incorporates personal innovativeness and perceived cost to further understand consumer's behavioral intention to use 3G mobile value-added services.

TL;DR: The findings show a social capital divide: teenagers have larger networks of friends compared to older users of MySpace, and the majority of teenage users' friends are in their own age range, whilst older people's networks ofFriends tend to have a more diverse age distribution.

TL;DR: An integrated model designed to investigate and explain the relationships between contextual factors, personal perceptions of knowledge sharing, knowledge sharing behavior, and community loyalty is developed and shows that trust significantly influences knowledge sharing self-efficacy, perceived relative advantage and perceived compatibility.

TL;DR: Results indicate that psychological distress is related to maladaptive use of both the Internet and the mobile phone; females scored higher than males on the mobilePhone questionnaire, showing more negative consequences of its mal Adaptive use.

TL;DR: Examination of problematic Internet use among people who play MMO games revealed that MMO gaming variables contributed a substantively small, but statistically significant amount of explained variance to PIU scores.

TL;DR: In this paper, a computer generated human character's facial proportions, skin texture, and level of detail were varied to examine their effect on perceived eeriness, human likeness, and attractiveness.

TL;DR: It is shown that sexually related online activities have become routine in recent years for large segments of the population in the Western world and little research has been conducted on potential benefits of Internet sexuality.

TL;DR: There was a positive relationship between the lack of social anxiety (feeling ''comfortable'' talking with others) and making friends online and the role that social anxiety plays on how teens communicate with others (technologically or face-to-face) is examined.

TL;DR: The results are consistent with a greater amount of general multitasking resources in younger generations, but similar mental limitations in the types of tasks that can be multitasked.

TL;DR: A theoretical template to guide future research on PIU is proposed and it is suggested that unrealistic optimism was best treated as part of PIU and that low self-esteem and the I7PA were the powerful predictors ofPIU.

TL;DR: Mediation analyses of the subjective load ratings revealed that both, extraneous and germane load contributed to the split-attention effect, which contradicts the assumption that only an increase in extraneous load for learners with a split-source format mediates thesplit-att attention effect.

TL;DR: This study extends and combines the post-acceptance model (PAM), proposed by Bhattacherjee, with aspects of Goodhue and Thomson's theory of task-technology fit (TTF), and proposes the existence of two different and autonomous paths from the independent variables to the dependent variable of IS continuance intention.

TL;DR: Examination of influences of cognitive concentration (or flow experience) and media content on consumers' acceptance of mobile TV suggests that cognitive concentration and content have a significant role in consumers' intention to use hedonic information technology.

TL;DR: There was a favorable relationship between mental effort and retention test performance for the individual learners as opposed to a unfavorable relationship between transfer test performance and mental effort for the students who learned in groups.

TL;DR: The authors suggest that three types of group interactions including sharing personal experience, expression of gratitude, and offering congratulations can facilitate social support exchanges among group members.

TL;DR: This study preliminarily confirms the salience of self-image congruity and regret in online service continuance and finds that the absolute effect of regret on continuance intention is larger than the effects of other antecedents identified in IS.

TL;DR: This paper investigates whether the nature of an online environment can prime users to create avatars that emphasize particular characteristics and uses the results to extract design recommendations for improving avatar-driven applications.

TL;DR: Findings show that attitude and subjective norm have a direct positive relationship towards behavioral intention to use Internet stock trading.

TL;DR: The results show that elderly people are not highly resistant to change and will adopt video UCC if some conditions are satisfied, and elderly-specific variables could be good antecedents for conventional TAM constructs, while having direct effects on the intention construct for some cases.

TL;DR: The results indicated that psychological dependency on MMOGs was predicted by cognitive preference for a virtual life-a construct that is negatively related to social control skills.

TL;DR: The present findings demonstrate that the worked-example effect is indeed robust and can be found even when compared to well-supported learning by problem-solving.

TL;DR: This study investigates whether such a procedure can further enhance the effectiveness of examples in which a solution procedure is demonstrated to students by a (expert) model and results show that combined with a verbal description of the thought process, this form of attention guidance had detrimental effects on learning.

TL;DR: Although the results are mixed, it appears possible to enhance the cognitive component of well-being via a self-guided internet intervention.

TL;DR: Applying verbal reporting, eye tracking, and concept mapping in research inspired by cognitive load theory may increase the understanding of how and why well-known effects of instructional formats come about and refine or corroborate the proposed theoretical underpinnings of such effects.

TL;DR: Overall the findings support the effectiveness of a combination of instructional animation with static pictures; however, the number of static pictures, which are used, is an important moderating factor.