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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"information-seeking behaviors"”.
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Information Seeking Behaviors of Michigan Family Physicians
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Online Health Information Seeking Behaviors of Hispanics in New York City
… population in terms of access to online health information. The specific aims of this descriptive, correlational study were to examine factors associated with online health information seeking behaviors of Hispanics and to examine the association between online health information seeking …
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Promoting farm to market diets: A study of Hispanic women’s health information seeking behaviors
… makes decisions and the sources they turn to for information on health related matters. Key factors used in the investigation process were health behaviors, acculturation and socio-economic status indicators (SES). The objective of the project is to understand how Hispanic women acquire health …
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Use of and information seeking behaviors on Facebook among Illinois farmers and farm families
… and for what purpose? Do they use it to seek information related to farming? If so, what types of farming-related information are they looking for? This study aims to examine farmers’ acceptance, use of, and information seeking behaviors as they engage with others through Facebook. This study …
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Effects of health information seeking behaviors on anxiety, and loss among East Asian international students
… study examined the influences of anxiety, health information seeking behavior, cross-cultural loss on satisfaction with life among 186 East Asian international students while studying abroad in the U.S. The results showed that general and health anxiety are both significantly associated with …
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Self-stigma, trust in the oncologists and information seeking behaviors in breast cancer patients and survivors
… as well as the BC patients' different information seeking behaviors: (i) Self-Stigma Characteristics in BC Treatment Stages and Among Racial Groups (ii) Trust in the Oncologist as Information Source and Self-stigma in Prognosis Communication in Breast Cancer and Patients and Survivors …
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A study of the relationships among perceived job context factors, information-seeking behaviors, work engagement, and future role intent among Korean project managers
… and job autonomy), role breadth self-efficacy, information- seeking behavior, work engagement, and future role intent among employees in project management roles. The conceptual model identified coworker trust, job autonomy, and role breadth self-efficacy as antecedents of information-seeking …
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Seeking but not finding: a qualitative exploration of the influence of college women's perceptions of feminism on their sexual health service- and information-seeking behaviors
… perceptions of feminism on their sexual health information- and service-seeking behaviors. In eight narrative interviews, qualitative data related to perceptions of feminism and experiences with seeking sexual health services and information were collected from undergraduate public health women …
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Information Seeking Among Women Who Are Homeless And Pregnant: A Phenomenological Exploration
Information behavior is a comprehensive term for the interaction’s humans have with information, comprising complex practices rooted within the dynamics of an individual’s everyday personal, social, and cultural contexts. Information science research has noted associations between certain …
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Exploring the concept and application of crisis-induced uncertainty in organizational crises
… with the organization and change their information-seeking behaviors. Through reviewing current theories about uncertainty in risk communication and interpersonal communication, this dissertation created a term, crisis-induced uncertainty, and conceptualized the construct. The researcher …
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Faculty Use of the World Wide Web: Modeling Information Seeking Behavior in a Digital Environment
… long history of studying library users and their information seeking behaviors and activities. Researchers developed models to better understand these information seeking behaviors and activities of users. Most of these models were developed before the onset of the Internet. This research project …
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What's My Motivation: The Effect of Motivated Reasoning and Accountability on the Determination of Internal Control Effectiveness
… internal control audits, which encourages information seeking behaviors. These information seeking behaviors encourage the auditor to attend more to confirmatory information that supports their motivated goal more than information that conflicts with the motivated goal. I hypothesize that …
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Makeshift Information Constructions: Information Flow and Undercover Police
… a viable model of the complex interactions, information flow and information seeking behaviors among undercover officers. The SVI model was created from a combination of various philosophies and models in the literature of information seeking, communication and philosophy. The questions this …
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Organizational Information-Seeking in the Digital Era: A Model of New Media Use, Uncertainty Reduction, Identification and Culture
… process and tests the relationship between information- seeking behaviors through social media, as a socialization effort, and individuals’ identification levels. Third, this study proposes that in the relationship between information-seeking behaviors, uncertainty level serves as a …
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Applying Theory To Management: Assessing the Practicality of Leopold's Land Ethic and the Risk Information and Processing (RISP) Model for Wildlife Management
… resource management pertaining to (1) the Risk Information Seeking and Processing behaviors of northwest Minnesota deer hunters after bovine tuberculosis (Mycobacterium bovis) was detected in the local whitetail deer population, and (2) farmers' attitudes towards and motivations for …
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Computational user intent modeling
User modeling is essential for any information service system (e.g., search engines, recommender systems, and computational advertising) to optimize its service to the end users. The level of user understanding directly determines the upper bound of optimality that such a system can achieve when …
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Integrating Community with Collections in Educational Digital Libraries
Some classes of Internet users have specific information needs and specialized information-seeking behaviors. For example, educators who are designing a course might create a syllabus, recommend books, create lecture slides, and use tools as lecture aid. All of these resources are available online, …
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The Relationship between Health Literacy and Health Outcomes: A Mixed-Methods Study of African-American Adult Patients with Asthma
… interviews. Interview questions focused on information seeking behaviors, patient-provider communication, and self-management behaviors. Chi-square, t-tests, and Wilcoxon Mann-Whitney test were used to compare participants across health literacy levels. The Preacher and Hayes method of …
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University Students and the Internet: Information Seeking Study
This study explored university students' information needs and seeking behaviors on the Internet. A Web-based survey was administrated one time. Two hundred responses were received from the target sample within the two weeks period of the study. Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, …
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PATHWAYS TO DEMOCRATIC CITIZENSHIP: THE MEDIATING ROLES OF DELIBERATION AND POLITICAL EFFICACY IN THE EFFECTS OF OLD AND NEW MEDIA USE ON POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN SOUTH KOREA
… and election results. The wide availability of information, the supply of unfettered discussion forums, and constant connectedness beyond space and geographical boundaries of the Internet are believed to work efficiently in leading citizens to the political process. However, unlike in Western …