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Enhancing Maritime Education Through Online Distance Learning In Developing Environments, Margaret Balungile Masuku

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Lessons Learned In Establishing A Quality International Journal: Mission Impossible?, Corina D. Riantoputra

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

No abstract provided.

Mini-Symposium As A Forum Of Discussion And Workshop, Laras Sekarasih, Mirra Noor Milla

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

No abstract provided.

Young Chinese Wechat Users' Brand Following Behavior, Wonsun Shin, Yan Huo

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

Brand-following of consumers on social media constitutes an important return on investment (ROI) index in digital marketing. However, little is known to date regarding brand-following behaviors of young Chinese social media users on Chinese social media platforms, in addition to the factors associated with them. In this study, our in-depth interviews with 20 emerging adults who followed brands through WeChat indicated that materialistic values, brand-related peer communication, and parents’ opinions regarding different product categories impact the brand-following behaviors of young consumers. The interviews also demonstrated that young people’s brand-following affected their intentions to post brand-related messages that were pertinent to …

Parents' Role In Teens' Personal Photo Sharing: A Moderated Mediation Model Incorporating Privacy Concerns And Network Size, Cong Liu, May Lwin, Rebecca Ang

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

Disclosure of personal photographs on social networking sites could lead to potential harm to adolescent users. This study aims to understand parents’ role in adolescents’ visual information disclosure on Facebook as well as the mediating role of privacy concern and moderating role of Facebook network size. A total of 351 secondary school students who use Facebook participated in the study (49.6% boys; mean age M = 13.98, SD = 0.94). Results showed a significant mediating effect of privacy concern on the relationship between parental mediation and visual disclosure (b= -0.07, Boot SE = 0.02, 95% CI [-0.116, -0.028]). Furthermore, the …

National Identity As Predicted By Ethnic Identity And Social Distance With Multiculturalism As Mediator: A Study Involving Chinese Indonesian Students In Jakarta, Angela Oktavia Suryani, Bernadette Setiadi, Nani Nurrachman, Hana Panggabean, Dhevy Setya Wibawa

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

As a large multiethnic country, Indonesia has limited studies regarding factors that may influence the national identity of Indonesians of Chinese descent. This study examined the relations between four variables—ethnic identity, multiculturalism, social distance, and Indonesian national identity—between Chinese (n = 159) and non-Chinese Indonesian university students (n = 158) in Jakarta. A multiple-group path analysis was conducted to analyze data from Chinese and non-Chinese samples. The results revealed that structural covariance invariance was the best fit, describing ethnic identity’s direct prediction of national identity and social distance’s indirect prediction of national identity, fully mediated by multiculturalism. The mean score …

Percieved Threat Of Homosexuals In Indonesia: Construct, Measurement, And Correlates, Susana Tjipto, Elisabeth Haksi Mayawati, Allan B. I. Bernardo

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

In Indonesia, homonegativity still exists and acts of violence against homosexual groups still happen, but there has not been much research on aspects of this homonegativity beyond inquiring into general attitudes towards homosexuals. This study has several aims: to qualitatively explore dimensions of perceived threat, to develop a measure of perceived threat of homosexuals, and to study some correlates and perceived threat of homosexuals in Indonesian samples. We used a mixed-method approach (qualitative-quantitative) to gather the data. Study 1 is a qualitative study that seeks to identify expressions and dimensions of perceived threat of homosexuals using thematic analysis of responses …

Personality, Polyculturalism, And Cultural Intelligence: A Cross-Cultural Survey Study, Allan B. I. Bernardo

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

The ability to function effectively in intercultural contexts is increasingly important in our globalized world. This ability has been conceptualized as cultural intelligence (or CQ), and many studies have focused on the factors associated with high CQ. The present study explored personality traits and the lay theory of polyculturalism as factors that predict CQ in two cultural groups (300 Chinese, 247 Filipinos) of university students. The respondents completed a questionnaire that included scales measuring the Big Five personality factors, polyculturalism, and CQ. Hierarchical regression analyses of questionnaire responses from the two samples indicated that consistent with the previous literature, openness …

Attracting And Retaining Young Workforce In Indonesia: Does Person-Organization (P-O) Fit Matter?, Dina Sartika

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

Rooted in the similarity−attraction−attrition paradigm, Cable and Judge’s framework has been one of the leading models in explaining Person−Organization fit. It associates perceived value congruence with employee work attitudes pre and post their entry. This study extends the model and findings by looking at the specific, underlying value dimensions that cause these effects. Drawing on a sample of 800 Indonesian jobseekers, I applied polynomial regression to test the model. Results showed that congruence between personal and organizational social responsibility value was the strongest and most consistent dimension predicting employee job satisfaction and organizational commitment.

Employability Market Orientation Of Employee On The Gig Economy Labour Market, Anna Pawłowska

European Management Studies

The article addresses the situation of an employee functioning in the labour market in the conditions of digitisation, leading, amongst other, to the rise of a gig, platform and sharing economy. The employee is presented as an individual actively choosing from among new opportunities to create cooperation with the employer in terms of employment form and manner, duration and rules of work performance. The purpose of the described research was to check whether the employee who spots that the employer is undertaking actions that bespeak a transactional psychological contract and is therefore ready to change the employer activates Employability Market …

Impact Of The Quality Of Supervisors’ Relationships With Subordinates On Employability And Job Satisfaction Of Public Organizations’ Workers, Izabela Marzec

European Management Studies

Changes in the area of employment in public organizations make the enhancement of their workers’ employability acquire special importance. In this context, attention should be paid to the role of supervisors in this process. The theory of Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), which indicates that the quality of supervisors’ relationships with subordinates may become an important tool for workers’ employability enhancement, provides an important input on this issue (Schyns, Torka, & Gössling, 2007; Van der Heijden et al., 2009). This paper tries to answer the questions: how do employees of public organizations evaluate their job satisfaction as well as what are the …

What Really Counts? – Factors Related To Effectiveness Of Students’ Team In Social Projects, Aleksandra Spik

European Management Studies

The aim of the study was to explore the factors that determine students’ team effectiveness. The study investigated the relations between three types of team effectiveness (performance, behavior, attitude) and five attributes of teamwork: common purpose, communication and problem resolution, role clarity and psychological safety. In the study, quantitative research was performed among undergraduate Polish students of management who had to conduct a real non-profit project that would tackle a social issue. The questionnaire used in the study was specifically developed. The results show that three components of team effectiveness have different patterns of predictors. The perceived quality of goal …

Factors Related To The Intention Of Starting A Business: A Study Among Students In Vietnam, Duong Công Doanh, Tomasz Bernat

European Management Studies

This study has adapted Ajzen’s (1991) theory of planned behaviour (TPB) to investigate the effects of factors such as lifestyle, self-efficacy, social capital, attitude towards entrepreneurship, subjective norms and perceive behavioural control on a business start-up intention among Vietnamese students. By using a meta-analytic path analysis with a sample of 663 students at universities and colleges in Vietnam, the authors indicate that subjective norms do not directly affect the entrepreneurial intention but they have an indirect effect on the business start-up intention through the attitude towards entrepreneurship. Moreover, self-efficacy is seen as the most important factor in shaping the entrepreneurial …

Antecedents Of Workplace Deviance: Role Of Job Insecurity, Work Stress, And Ethical Work Climate, Shuaib Ahmed Soomro, Yasir Mansoor Kundi, Muhammad Kamran

European Management Studies

This study examines why and how job insecurity affects employees’ deviant behaviour at work. To develop our hypotheses, we build on the conservation of resources theory. Our hypotheses suggested that job insecurity would be positively related to work stress and workplace deviance. Moreover, an ethical work climate was hypothesised to moderate the relationship between work stress and workplace deviance. Using data from 174 employees working in Multi-National Corporations (MNCs) located in Pakistan, the findings indicated that job insecurity has consequences for work stress and two facets of workplace deviance. Further, we found that an ethical work climate prevents employees from …

What's Happening: December 30, 2019, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Analysis Of The Impact Of The European Social Fund On The Sme Sector In Poland, Przemysław Dubel

European Management Studies

The aim of this article is to assess the impact of the European Social Fund (ESF) on the development of human capital in the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector. The methodology for the preparation of the projects implemented under the Knowledge, Education and Development Programme was analysed. Since 2004, the ESF has directly influenced all the main determinants of Poland’s economic development by supporting the pursuit of a high level of employment, improvement of access to the labour market and professional mobility of employees. It facilitates adaptation to the changes taking place in industry, enables the organisation of training …

State V. Williams Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 46610

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

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Violent Conflict And Breastfeeding: The Case Of Iraq, Vidya Diwakar, Michael A. Malcolm, George Naufal

Economics & Finance Faculty Publications

Background: This study explores the relationship between armed conflict and breastfeeding practices of Iraqi mothers. To date, the relationship between violent conflict and breastfeeding is surprisingly understudied. Especially in the Middle East, which is conflict-prone and has a young population, research on war and household behavior is critical for promoting recovery and sustainable development. Methods: This study employs a unique pairing of the Iraq Body Count Database and the 2006 and 2011 Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys for Iraq. We use probit models to explore the association between armed conflict and several breastfeeding outcomes – whether a child was ever breastfed, …

Kajian Literatur Sistematis: Skema Pengendalian Biaya Dalam Asuransi Kesehatan Nasional Di Beberapa Negara, Eka Pujiyanti, Ery Setiawan, Euis Ratna Sari, Indah Pratiwi Suwandi

Jurnal Ekonomi Kesehatan Indonesia

Cost-containment is one of several strategies to ensure the financial sustainability of the National Health Insurance scheme. Several cost-containment models were commonly globally, such as cost-sharing, capping, and others. This review aims to determine the costs and impacts of implemented policy schemes as cost-containment instruments in various countries. We performed a systematic review from several primary databases (Proquest, Pubmed, and Cochrane Library) with the primary intervention are the cost-sharing methods. The results of our review focused on the cost containment scheme from the government perspective, in which the context of social insurance can be a modification of payment systems, cost-sharing, …

Creative Thinking And Its Relation To The Accuracy Of The Skill Of Sending The Volleyball Students With The Faculty Of Physical Education And Sports Sciences, Ahmed Walahan Hamid, Sawsan Jadoua

Modern Sport

The study of creativity is an urgent and fundamental necessity for all human societies, including the sports community. Despite the many theories and literature that attempt to explain creativity on a natural, practical, personal, psychological or hereditary basis, creativity remains an important symbol and distinct mental ability in behavior that defines personality The individual There is no doubt that sports as a social phenomenon adopts the concept of creativity in general sense and creative thinking in performance in particular in the process of learning the basic skills in the various sports, especially volleyball and awareness and interpretation and performance with …

The Leadership Behavior Of The Professors Of Physical Education And Sports Sciences And Their Relation To The Motivation Of Achievement Among Students In The First Stage In Some Faculties Other Than Specialization During The Lesson Of Physical Education, Imad Aziz Nashmi, Aziz Al-Din Turki, Mohammed Raheem Rakan

Modern Sport

The research aims to identify the successful leadership behavior of the professor of physical education and sports sciences as well as the motives for achievement during the course of physical education in non-specialized colleges. The researchers assume that there is a correlation between the positive behavior of leadership and the motivation of mathematical achievement and the existence of a relationship The behavior of the reward of leadership and the motivation of mathematical achievement, and the researchers chose the sample of the research in a deliberate way, which consisted of 270 students and 42 were excluded for not being committed to …

Psychological Flexibility And Its Relation To Self-Talk Among Young Football Players, Hussein Hamza Jowad, Muadh Saleh Jowad

Modern Sport

The objective of the research is to build the measures of psychological flexibility and self-talk and to identify the relationship between the young tennis players. The researchers used the descriptive approach in survey methods and case study. The study sample included the players of the training centers in the game of youth football in Babil governorate, which are (100) players, distributed in (5) training centers (20) players for each training center, Research The measures of psychological flexibility and self-talk were built by following the steps and procedures of constructing and preparing the psychological measures and processing their data using the …

The Effect Of Fat Percentage (Obesity) On Some Physical Characteristics, Movement And Physical Performance Of Women Aged (30-40 Years, Zainab Jouni Kooti, Ahlam Shaghati Mohsen

Modern Sport

The research included introduction to the importance of physical fitness in

performance and overcome the health disorders and distortions of strength through the exercise of fitness exercises and hence the importance of the studyby knowing the difference in the proportion of fat and its relationship to somephysical and motor characteristics and the need to pay attention to health fitness by reducing the proportion. Grease leading to obesity and diseases of lack of movement The problem of research is in the lack of movement in women as aresult of increasing the proportion of grease so the researcher wanted to find the …

Determination Of Standard Levels Of Motor And Physical Satisfaction Of Advanced Volleyball Playe, Khalil Star Mohammed, Ahmed Thari Hani, Hazem Mohammed Ali

Modern Sport

Introduction The volleyball game is one of the collective sports that have undergone great developments on the skill and physical level, which has been reflected in the development of methods of play and plans and laws that contributed to the aesthetic performance of the players and increase the excitement of the masses. This is why the researcher's idea is that it helps to detect motor satisfaction and self-interest, which greatly affect the exercise of sports activities in order to achieve better sports results, as well as the determination of the grades and standard levels that benefit the workers in the …

Emotional Intelligence And Its Relationship To The Pulse Rate And Respiration Of Diyala Club Handball Players Aged (15-17) Years, Kamal Jassim Mohammed, Kamel Aboud Hussein

Modern Sport

Emotional intelligence and its relationship with pulse rate and breathing in the players of diyala handball at the age of 15 -17 years

The aim of the research is to identify the relationship between emotional intelligence and emotional management and its effect on the organization of heartbeat and breathing during the performance and effort of handball players at the age of 15- 17 years. Diyala sports clup the researcher used the emotional intelligence test ,for the sample of 20 players and after the imposition of the research there is a correlation between intelligence and during the effort and after rest

Assessing The Reality Of Psychological Resilience Among Handball Players Of Iraq's Provincial Teams, Hassan Hadi Saleh, Ayman Hani Abdul Aani, Karrar Mohammed Tawij

Modern Sport

The researchers used a descriptive approach with a survey study method. The research community consisted of advanced handball players from the provincial teams of Iraq, with a total of 90 players. Then, the psychological resilience scale was applied to a sample of 50 players from this community. Appropriate statistical treatments were used to analyze the results, which were then presented, analyzed, and discussed.

The researchers reached the following conclusions:

Based on these findings, the researchers made the following key recommendations:

Comparison Of Mental Toughness And Social Interaction Among Female Players Of The Physical Education And Sports Science Colleges Basketball Teams In The Middle Euphrates Universities., Hind Mohammad Amin, Ayman Hani Abd, Afrah Rahman Kazem

Modern Sport

Research Objectives: The research aims to:

The researchers used a descriptive approach with survey and comparative methods. The research community was defined as the female players of the Physical Education and Sports Science Colleges basketball teams in the Middle Euphrates universities for the academic year 2018-2019, totaling 48 students. From this community, a sample of 32 students was randomly selected, with 8 students from each college, and 5 students for the pilot study. The researchers then selected and applied the mental toughness and social interaction scales to the sample. Statistical treatments were used to analyze the results. The findings were …

A Comparative Study Of Psychological Resilience Between Male And Female Students Of The College Of Physical Education And Sports Sciences At The University Of Kufa, Salman Aqab Sarhan, Abbas Mahdi Saleh, Aqil Kazem Hadi

Modern Sport

The problem of the research was manifested and it dealt with many psychological factors that affect students’ learning in the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, in addition to that these factors, including psychological flexibility, affect the level of physical fitness and the students’ ability to continue with correct and coordinated learning from the scientific side. The aim of the research: to identify the differences in flexibility Psychology between male and female students of the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, University of Kufa, the research hypothesis: There are no differences in psychological flexibility between male and female …

Focusing Attention And Its Relationship To The Accuracy Of Close Shooting In Basketball, Weam Amer Abdullah, Luqman Saleh Karim, Mohammed Thamer Karim

Modern Sport

Through the researchers' follow-up to this aspect, they found that there are many cases of failed corrections, which waste the chances of winning in critical situations, and one of the reasons for this failure may be a deficiency in the process of focusing attention, as identifying this psychological phenomenon helps us develop one of the important factors and help in Correction success and herein lies the research problem

An Analytical Study Of The Reality Of School Sports For The Intermediate Stage In Al-Qadisiyah Governorate, Mudar Abdul-Baqi Salem, Bassem Sami Shaheed, Ola Salam

Modern Sport

School sports are the basic structure of the sports movement that we must pay the greatest attention to in order to ensure our sports movement development and spread, and in line with the visions and goals aimed at raising the level of the sports field, and in line with the needs of the era in which we live and its positive and negative effects, especially within the Egyptian society, and with the aim of Activating and developing work mechanisms in the field of school sports activities, which are among the effective means of training and educating young people, as they …