Microcomputer playfulness: development of a measure with workplace implications

TL;DR: The analysis suggests that learning style does influence training effectiveness and that on-line training is significantly less effective for some learning styles.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed several alternative theories from the literature to TAM, including cognitive dissonance, social judgment theory, theory of passive learning, and self-perception theory, which reveal a reverse relationship in contrast to the traditional attitude-behavior relationship in TAM.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that creativity can be explained partly by personality characteristics but also by situational variables related to changing or enhancing affective states, such as personality characteristics and situational variables.

TL;DR: This study investigates the impact of jigsaw cooperative learning on academic motivation, hardiness, and self-efficacy of English Foreign Language learners, finding significant improvements in these factors among learners who received the JCL treatment compared to a control group.

TL;DR: Regression analyses suggest that perceived ease of use may actually be a causal antecdent to perceived usefulness, as opposed to a parallel, direct determinant of system usage.

TL;DR: An integrative theoretical framework to explain and to predict psychological changes achieved by different modes of treatment is presented and findings are reported from microanalyses of enactive, vicarious, and emotive mode of treatment that support the hypothesized relationship between perceived self-efficacy and behavioral changes.

TL;DR: This transmutability of the validation matrix argues for the comparisons within the heteromethod block as the most generally relevant validation data, and illustrates the potential interchangeability of trait and method components.

TL;DR: The development of an instrument designed to measure the various perceptions that an individual may have of adopting an information technology IT innovation, comprising eight scales which provides a useful tool for the study of the initial adoption and diffusion of innovations.