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Student Motivations for Social Media Use and Their Effects on Academic Performance: A Meditational Approach in Emerging Market
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Kalam, Abul; Goi, Chai Lee; Tiong, Ying Ying – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2023
Purpose: Due to the incredible criticisms by scholars of the excessive use of social media networks, this study aims to explore students' motivation for social media use (SMU) and its effects on academic performance (AP) in the light of uses and gratification theory. Design/methodology/approach: Using the simple random and snowball sampling…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Social Media, Academic Achievement, Mediation Theory
Predictors of Online Search Performance: A Uses and Gratification Perspective
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Thongmak, Mathupayas – Knowledge Management & E-Learning, 2021
A study of online search, especially search performance, is vital because people heavily rely on the Internet nowadays. The purposes of this study are thus to examine the gratification needs affecting Internet users' intention to search information online, to explore the antecedents of online search performance, and to investigate online…
Descriptors: Online Searching, Need Gratification, Internet, Users (Information)
English Teachers' Intention to Use Flipped Teaching: Interrelationships with Needs Satisfaction, Motivation, Self-Efficacy, Belief, and Support
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Jiang, Lianjiang; Zang, Ning; Zhou, Nan; Cao, Hongjian – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
While the role of flipped teaching in students' language performance is well documented, English teachers' perspective about flipped teaching remains underexplored. Informed by the self-determination theory and the motivation-opportunity-ability theory, this study examined English teachers' intention to use flipped teaching and its…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Intention
Student Intention to Engage in Leisure-Time Physical Activity: The Interplay of Task-Involving Climate, Competence Need Satisfaction and Psychobiosocial States in Physical Education
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Di Battista, Rossana; Robazza, Claudio; Ruiz, Montse C.; Bertollo, Maurizio; Vitali, Francesca; Bortoli, Laura – European Physical Education Review, 2019
Grounded in achievement goal theory and basic psychological needs theory, the aim of this study was to examine the impact of the interaction of perceived motivational climate in physical education with psychological needs satisfaction (relatedness, competence and autonomy) and psychobiosocial states on student intention to engage in leisure-time…
Descriptors: Intention, Leisure Time, Physical Activities, Physical Education
Fostering Teacher-Parent Communication: Line Plays a Significant Role in Taiwan
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Lin, Luc Chia-Shin – SAGE Open, 2019
The convenience and pervasiveness of smartphones have created an environment where teacher-parent communication can be easily fostered through mobile apps. The current study aims to explore the role of instant messaging apps in teacher-parent communication. Social capital and the uses and gratifications theory were used to develop a theoretical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Interpersonal Communication, Telecommunications
Extending the Trans-Contextual Model in Physical Education and Leisure-Time Contexts: Examining the Role of Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction
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Barkoukis, Vassilis; Hagger, Martin S.; Lambropoulos, George; Tsorbatzoudis, Haralambos – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
Background: The trans-contextual model (TCM) is an integrated model of motivation that aims to explain the processes by which agentic support for autonomous motivation in physical education promotes autonomous motivation and physical activity in a leisure-time context. It is proposed that perceived support for autonomous motivation in physical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Needs, Physical Education, Physical Activities