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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"motivations to use"”.
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Understanding older adults’ motivations to use digital health technology
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Nontraditional and Traditional Student Motives to Use Their University Communication Center
… them for appointments as well as during tutoring sessions. This study explores possible differences in motivations to use communication centers using both traditional and nontraditional students who had used their university's communication center. Students took a survey based on Ajzen's …
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The Development and Exploration of a Twelve-Factor Model of Motivations for Using Substances
… limited application of various salient motives to use substances across substance classes and has been further limited by only measuring substance use motives by the frequency at which one uses for a given reason. The purpose of this study was the development and initial validation of the …
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Uses and Gratification of Sports Media Audiences
… the exposure of mass media, sports fans are able to enjoy games in real time in their homes (Beck & Bosshart, 2003; Phua, 2010). While just watching sports broadcasts, fans are likely to share the game experience with family, friends, and other fans who are following the same team (Gantz & Wenner, …
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Relationships between motivation to use social network sites, relational interdependent self-construal, achievement goals, social goals, and academic performance among Malaysian adolescents
… relationships between adolescents’ motivation to use social network sites (SNS), relational interdependent self-construal (RISC), social goals, achievement goals and academic performance in a Malaysian context. Motivation to learn in school is vital in energising and directing students’ …
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Exploring Maltese millennials’ main motivations for choosing Airbnb as their preferred accommodation and experience holiday
For this research study, the research topic chosen is Airbnb, focusing on the research problem of the peer-2-peer (P2P) online platform and its popular target market, millennials. Literature and research have shown, however, that studies on motivations to use Airbnb do not address specific …
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VideoTag: encouraging the effective tagging of internet videos through tagging games
… purposes, yet the majority of video search still uses this text. This problem is escalating due to the ease with which users can self-publish videos, generating masses that are poorly labelled and poorly described. This thesis investigates how users tag videos and whether video tagging games can …
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Learning by Game Design for Library Instruction: A Multiple Case Study
… learners are limited. This study contributes to the burgeoning discourse on alternative instructional approaches to teaching information literacy and focuses on the use of game design in learning environments. </p> <p>The appeal of gaming among the younger generation of learners has led to the …
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How individuals experience and make sense of their problematic mephedrone use : an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… and entering treatment for problematic club drug use in the United Kingdom. It has been suggested, based on socio-demographics, that the treatment needs of such users are different from those of users of traditional drugs, and consequently specialist club drug clinics were introduced. However, to …
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Long-Term Heroin Careers: Narratives of Persistence
This thesis seeks to understand persistence in long-term heroin careers. This includes thick description of the processes and micro level interactions experienced by heroin users. In addition, it aims to account for variation found within heroin careers as well as differences between the careers of …
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The Transnational News Diets of Russian Speakers in Germany: what news they use and trust
… nine right after its beginning (out of which I used only twenty five for the final analysis, as I focused only on the Russian speakers, associated with agressor or neutral countries in Russia’s war in Ukraine). The dissertation addresses a variety of issues, related to the media use of the …