Showing papers in "Computers in Human Behavior in 2014"

TL;DR: It is argued that conceptual issues and methodological shortcomings surrounding internet addiction research have made theoretical development difficult and an alternative model termed compensatory internet use is presented in an attempt to properly theorize the frequent assumption that people go online to escape real life issues or alleviate dysphoric moods.

TL;DR: The current trends of empirical research in the development of computational thinking through programming is presented and a constructionism-based problem-solving learning environment could be designed to foster computational practices and computational perspectives and suggests possible research and instructional implications.

TL;DR: The results suggest that compulsive usage of smartphone and technostress are positively related to psychological traits including locus of control, social interaction anxiety, materialism and the need for touch.

TL;DR: Investigating the relationships between total cell phone use and texting on Satisfaction with Life (SWL) in a large sample of college students found GPA was positively related toSWL while anxiety was negatively related to SWL, adding to the debate about studentcell phone use.

TL;DR: The results indicate that perceived enjoyment and usefulness of the gamification decline with use, suggesting that users might experience novelty effects from the service.

TL;DR: An analysis of 339 adult participants revealed a positive relationship between supportive interaction and positive affect after the interaction and a path model revealed positive associations among the number of SNS friends, supportive interactions, affect, perceived social support, sense of community, and life satisfaction.

TL;DR: A new method for sentiment analysis in Facebook is presented, starting from messages written by users, to extract information about the users' sentiment polarity (positive, neutral or negative), as transmitted in the messages they write, and to model the Users' usual sentiment pol parity and to detect significant emotional changes.

TL;DR: It is suggested that automated VHs can help overcome a significant barrier to obtaining truthful patient information and be rated by observers as more willing to disclose.

TL;DR: A theoretical model by blending cutting-edge research in consumers' trust, value co-creation, and eWOM to study how these factors interact with each other through a systematic review of electronic Word-of-Mouth affects purchase intention in social network sites (SNSs).

TL;DR: Anxiety in American college students when their WMDs were unexpectedly not available showed that participants felt significantly more anxious over time, however, this pattern was evident only with heavy WMD users and with moderate W MD users whose devices were taken away.

TL;DR: The research results provide insight into how WeChat can motivate users and build their trust to improve their attitudes which in turn will increase WeChat users' willingness in making positive comments on products and services.

TL;DR: By comparing younger consumers with their older counterparts, in terms of gender the findings indicate that the major factors driving older adults toward online shopping are performance expectation and social influence which is the same with younger, and it is notable that older adults show no gender differences in regards to the drivers and barriers.

TL;DR: This study first explains why people participate in online communities by building an integrated model of motivational factors of online behaviors, and identifies four types of lurking reasons: environmental influence, personal preference, individual-group relationship and security consideration.

TL;DR: The main finding from this research is that, for each classification, there is a relation between some type of interactions and academic performance in online courses, whereas this relation is non-significant in the case of VLE-supported F2F courses.

TL;DR: A model depicting how consumers' relationship with the elements of a brand community based on social media influence brand trust finds that three of the four relationships positively influence brandTrust, however, customer-other customers' relationships negatively influence brand Trust, which is counter intuitive and interesting.

TL;DR: The empirical results show that the proposed behavioral model was appropriately adjusted, thus proving that the age of the user introduces significant differences in the proposed relationships between influences from third parties and ease of use of the payment system.

TL;DR: This study targeted "the composition of substances" segment of junior high school chemistry classes and involved the design and development of a set of inquiry-based Augmented Reality learning tools, concluding that the AR tool has a significant supplemental learning effect as a computer-assisted learning tool.

TL;DR: Path analyses showed that the Big Five personality factors, self-esteem, social cohesion, and motives contribute to self-disclosure dimensions, however, demographic variables did not impact disclosiveness.

TL;DR: It was demonstrated that the longer people are active on Facebook, the more negative is their mood afterwards, and this effect is mediated by a feeling of not having done anything meaningful.

TL;DR: It is found that an individual's personality characteristics influence the person's social comparison frequency on Facebook, and a positive relationship between Facebook use intensity and social comparison Frequency on Facebook is found.

TL;DR: Using these features in blog writings appears to improve online readers’ trust toward and the credibility of sponsored recommendation posts and thus can be a vital online marketing tool for marketers.

TL;DR: The results uncovered that the intention to adopt m-learning has significant relationship with TAM, and the study has successfully extended TAM with psychological constructs.

TL;DR: The theory of belonging and the intrinsic motivation of altruism are drawn on to explore the factors contributing to knowledge sharing behavior and find that perceived online attachment motivation and perceived online relationship commitment have positive, direct, and significant effects on online knowledge sharing.

TL;DR: The overall results lay a foundation for designers to reduce the wide design spaces of social robots by grouping the various parameters under the big umbrella of social role stereotypes.

TL;DR: A comprehensive advertising model that combines a Web advertising model, personalization and flow theory in understanding the antecedents of purchase intention and influence processes in the context of smartphone advertisements is suggested.

TL;DR: The results demonstrate that online authenticity had a positive longitudinal effect on three indicators of subjective well-being and propose that the results can be explained in light of a ''positivity bias in SNS communication'' that favors positive forms of authenticity over negative ones.

TL;DR: Researchers observed a significant overall average effect in the positive relationship between Facebook use and loneliness and point to measurements of Facebook use as well as measurements of loneliness (and its variations) as possible moderating features or sources of variability in the relationship.

TL;DR: The results from the three-step hierarchical regression analysis revealed that computer self-efficacy, metacognitive self-regulation, and self-esteem in online courses were not only positively correlated with student’s cognitive and emotional engagement factors, but were also negatively correlated with behavioral factors.

TL;DR: Social self-efficacy can be considered a cognitive mechanism that mediates the relationships between academic stress and smartphone addiction and between interpersonal relationship stress and smartphones addiction.

TL;DR: A theoretical model integrating the D&M model and trust literature was proposed to examine the antecedents of repurchase intention in online group-buying by integrating the perspective of DeLone & McLean IS success model and the literature of trust and the results show that satisfaction with website, satisfaction with sellers, and perceived quality of website have positive influences onRepurchase intention.