Personal Intentions Research Articles

Employees’ Career Growth and Development: Outlook and Challenges of a First-Class Accounting Unit

This study focused on identifying the outlook and challenges on career growth and development of all seventeen employees of the accounting office of a local government unit and is anchored on Systems Theory Framework of Career Development. Descriptive qualitative research design was employed and utilized total enumeration purposive sampling. Respondents were interviewed and data was gathered, transcribed, and thematically analyzed. Findings revealed that employees shared positive and negative outlook on career growth and development citing promotion, annual salary appraisal, and skills enhancement. Furthermore, challenges included demographic factors like age, educational background, market competition, lack of vision and personal purpose, slow promotion process, and management support. Therefore, the outlook and challenges of the employees focused on the career planning intervention, especially in ensuring that employees are given enough exposure and awareness on professional development and training to acquire skillset and qualifications to advance their careers and provide robust development of core policies to ensure everyone is treated fairly and just with regards to career advancement. Self-awareness, self-development, inclusive work environment and management support will help employees in their careers and professions.

Media culture as a sign of liberalism of the modern information society

The relevance of the study is determined by the definition and communicative accompaniments of the fact that the majority of business representatives from the production of examples of information culture continue to deny the problem of free-thinking bias in the functioning of information culture. The fact that media workers who create the content of information culture admit that most media still approach the interpretation of this media product from a liberal, free-thinking point of view is undeniable. The object of research is media culture as a factor in the system of social communications. The subject is carriers of Ukrainian liberal information culture. The purpose of the study is to reveal the key factors of the modern aspect of Ukrainian information culture carriers in the context of its free interpretations in the information society. To achieve this goal, the following tasks were set: to identify patterns and features of information media culture as a means of communication; to outline the mass of information culture as a sign of free-thinking; to find out the functionality of free-thinking information culture. The methodological basis is a combination of general scientific methods and special methods and approaches to the study of regularities and features of information processes and phenomena. As a result of the study, it was found that information media culture involves, in particular, following one's own media, which have the authority of knowledge and experience. It is precisely in this that information culture helps to consolidate the content of those norms that are given special importance in society. At the same time, the consolidation of one specific version of the model of information culture becomes the basis for its content to reach the audience not in the form of its constant change and processing, but in the form of the creation of new symbolic meanings of integral complexes of no longer traditional meanings. Ukrainian information culture is a socio-cultural phenomenon that is still developing today. Having fixed one version of the content, this phenomenon does not so much try to interpret a certain traditional phenomenon of the “correct past” by its very essence. This leads to the need for new content, new contexts, new messages that take into account the necessary changes that have taken place, but solely based on the personal intentions of the audience.

COMPETITION IN BUSINESS: ANALYSIS OF FACTORS AFFECTING CUSTOMERS SWITCHING INTENTION OF CONVENTIONAL BANKS TO ISLAMIC BANKS IN CENTRAL JAVA

This study uses a combination of two theories, namely Theory Reasoned Action (TRA) and Theory Push-Pull-Mooring (PPM). This study aims to determine the effect of religious attitude, alternative attractiveness and subjective norm on customers switching intention. The research method used is quantitative. This study uses primary data distributed to respondents with purposive sampling technique. The population in this study are Islamic bank customers who have previously been customers of conventional banks in Central Java who are Muslim. The sample used is 100 respondents obtained through distributing questionnaires. This research uses multiple regression analysis technique with Smart-PLS software. The results of hypothesis testing indicate that religious attitude, alternative attractiveness and subjective norm have a positive and significant effect on customers switching intentions on Islamic bank customers. The result of the highest influence is shown by the subjective norm variable with a regression coefficient value of 0,375 with a significance value of 0,000. This means that a person's intention to perform a behavior can be built through their social environment. The greater the support from the social environment such as family, friends, neighbors and religious leaders can influence the intention of conventional customers to immediately switch to Islamic bank.

INCREASING THE SENSE OF IDENTITY AND INTEGRITY: AN INTERVENTION STUDY OF ACTIVE AGING AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS

Abstract Identity and integrity (i.e., a sense of coherence and wholeness) are important elements for psychosocial development in later stages of life as described in Erikson’s life-span developmental theory. This study aimed to develop an intervention program to increase the sense of identity and integrity among older adults. The program included two types of workshops to examine the combined impact of searching for one’s post-retirement identity and clarifying personal goals and purpose for later life. The first workshop, Introductory of Active Aging, focused on providing the knowledge and skills necessary to prepare for life after retirement. The second workshop, Creating Your Life History, focused on a life review and composing one’s life history using the guided autobiography method developed by Birren. The study used a crossover design with a one-week break interval between the two workshops. Each workshop was conducted weekly with a two-hour session over four weeks. Thirty-eight participants aged 60 to 80 attended both workshops between October and December 2021 at a community center in Tokyo, Japan. The sense of identity and integrity were assessed using the Japanese version of the Erikson Psychosocial Inventory Scale (EPSI) at baseline and after completing both workshops (9th week). The scores of both identity and integrity increased significantly among participants who completed two workshops in sequence. This crossover study showed no statistical difference in the effects of each workshop. Further work is needed to monitor the long-term impact of these workshops in clarifying one’s identity and achieving satisfaction with self in later life.

Presidential Address, 2022-Dismantling Systemic Barriers: Re-Envisioning Equity and Inclusion.

Presidential Address, 2022-Dismantling Systemic Barriers: Re-Envisioning Equity and Inclusion.

Development and Validation of the Youth Purpose Orientation Scale Among Chinese Sample.

Purpose orientation has an important impact on the development of adolescence. An effective instrument is needed to describe the purpose orientation of youth. The aim of this research is to develop a reliable and valid scale to measure life purpose orientations of youth. Study 1 established a preliminary pool of items based on a literature review, an open-form questionnaire, and some expert opinions. Study 2 used exploratory factor analysis and performed internal consistency and reliability tests. The sample consisted of 442 young Chinese students, divided into males (49.3%) and females (50.7%) with an age range of 13 to 22 years. Study 3 performed confirmatory factor analysis and tested the scale's calibration validity and test-retest reliability. The confirmatory sample comprised 91,635 young Chinese students, divided into males (43.2%) and females (56.5%) with an age range of 12 to 23 years. The calibration validity sample consisted of 572 participants, aged 12 to 22. The test-retest reliability sample consisted of 200 participants. Through exploratory factor analysis, the four-factor structure revealed contains personal growth, social promotion, family well-being, and personal well-being purpose orientations. This four factor-structure revealed a 65.26% cumulative variance. The four factors' alpha reliability was 0.89 for personal growth, 0.87 for social promotion, 0.86 for family well-being, and 0.87 for personal well-being, respectively. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the model fitting index had a good four-factor structure. The calibration validity and test-retest reliability were acceptable. These findings demonstrated that the 19-item findings demonstrated that the Youth Purpose Orientation Scale is a valid and reliable measure. In future research, it can be used to measure purpose orientation in youth.

Shaping a Career as a Clinician Educator.

Shaping a Career as a Clinician Educator.

DETERMINANTS OF THE INTENTION TO PARTICIPATE IN WAQF: ALTRUISM, TRUST, AND RELIGIOSITY

This study aims to determine community groups' behavior in participating in waqf. One of the motives that waqf marketers must capture is altruistic behavior in waqf. Altruism is a feeling of wanting to prosper others so that personal interests are sometimes not always important. The feelings of people who always want to help others must be seen and converted into one of the marketing tools in the future. Religiosity is proposed as a moderation of one's altruistic nature in participating in waqf. This study uses the Partial Least Square – Structural Equation Model (PLS-SEM) model, with a total of 61 active waqf in Indonesia. The main finding revealed that altruism significantly affected trust, although it did not affect the intention to participate in waqf. Another significant result reveals that Islamic religiosity moderates the effect of altruism on the intention to participate in waqf if the customer (wakif) has felt trust. In this case, someone with a higher level of religiosity has a greater intention to participate in waqf compared to those with lower religiosity. The significant contribution of this research is the developed theory about the relationship between altruistic attitude, belief, and intention to participate in waqf. This study also recommends practitioners making marketing strategies (segmentation-targeting-positioning) that use customer journeys in altruistic and religious programs. The marketing program is structured in order to find the interest of new wakif candidates as well as to prove credibility so that it will gain trust and in the end will increase a person's intention to participate in waqf.

Alertness, self-efficacy, and intention: Mediating effects encouraging students entrepreneurship behavior

This study examined the interaction of alertness, self-efficacy, and intention in entrepreneurial behavior. This research departed from the efforts of educational institutions to produce graduates with entrepreneurial profiles. Data was collected through questionnaires distributed to 530 respondents who had taken sharia entrepreneurship classes at a university in Indonesia. The results showed that education positively affected students' alerts and self-efficacy. Alertness and subsequent self-efficacy also positively impact entrepreneurial intention and behavior. Next, the entrepreneurial intention has a positive effect on entrepreneurial behavior. Contradictory findings show entrepreneurship education does not significantly impact entrepreneurial intention, self-efficacy, and behavior. The indirect effect found that the mediating role of alertness, self-efficacy, and purpose could fully bridge the relationship between education and entrepreneurial behavior. The results implied the importance of alertness, self-efficacy, and intention to promote entrepreneurial behavior in educational institutions. The study results highlighted an important message for universities and schools to put more effort into students' self-efficacy, vigilance, and personal intention to maximize learning activities on campus. The action can support the efforts of educational institutions through the entrepreneurship curriculum to increase the profile of alums as entrepreneurs.

Experimental evidence of the impact of framing of actors and victims in conservation narratives.

Media narratives play a crucial role in framing marine conservation dilemmas by depicting human actors, such as fish consumers or the fishing industry, as responsible for negative effects of their actions on species and ecosystems. However, there is little evidence documenting how such narratives affect preferences for reducing bycatch. Behavioral science research shows that people can act less prosocially when more actors are responsible for a collective outcome (responsibility diffusion effect) and when more victims need to be helped (compassion fade effect); thus, the media's framing of actors and victims may have a significant effect on preferences. We conducted the first test of responsibility diffusion and compassion fade in a marine context in an online experiment (1548 participants in the United Kingdom). In 9 media narratives, we varied the type of actors responsible for fisheries bycatch (e.g., consumers and industry) and victims (e.g., a single species, multiple species, and ecosystems) in media narratives and determined the effects of the narratives on participants' support for bycatch policies and intentions to alter fish consumption. When responsibility for negative effects was attributed to consumers and industry, the probability of participants reporting support for fisheries policies (e.g., bycatch enforcement or consumer taxes) was ∼30% higher (odds ratio=1.32) than when only consumers were attributed responsibility. These effects were primarily driven by female participants. Narratives had no effect on personal intentions to consume fish. Varying the type of victim had no effect on policy support and intentions. Our results suggest that neither responsibility diffusion nor compassion fade automatically follows from increasing the types of actors and victims in media narratives and that effects can depend on the type of outcome and population subgroup.

Industrial psychologist intern: Professional purpose, skills and practice confidence

Orientation: Internships are a practical way for students to operationalise their professional purpose, acquire key occupation-related skills and practise their professional capability in real-world work settings.Research purpose: This study explored industrial and organisational psychology (IOP) interns’ views of their professional purpose and their perceptions of the applied skills they developed as a result of the internship programme, including their confidence about setting up an independent practice.Motivation for the study: There is currently a dearth of South African research on IOP interns’ views about the internship programme.Research approach/design and method: The study utilised a qualitative research approach. An open-ended question survey was conducted among 17 South Africa-based IOP interns. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the collected data.Main findings: Data analysis revealed the intrinsic motivational self-determination of the interns as an influencing force for their personal purpose and vision as practising industrial psychologists (IPs). Views about the skills developed were aligned with HPCSA minimum competency requirements as manifested within the digital-era work space. Interns felt more confident about practising within an organisational setting rather than a private practice.Practical/managerial implications: Understanding the psychological self-determination needs that motivate the IOP intern may help to improve coursework training and supervision support practices for the IOP intern.Contribution/value-add: The study extends the internship research literature and revealed the dire need for enhancing the confidence of the IOP intern about setting up and successfully managing an independent professional IP practice.

OFW Reintegration Program Beneficiaries Towards Economic Sustainability

This research assessed the Philippine governments Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) reintegration program beneficiaries towards crafting an economic sustainability framework. It sought to profile the OFW reintegration program beneficiaries by age, sex, civil status, educational attainment, last job classification as an OFW, last country they worked in as an OFW, and the number of years spent as an OFW. Further, it pursued to determine to what extent OFWs economic sustainability in terms of financial capacity, economic sustainability, and social mobility were impacted and influenced by the level of availment of reintegration programs in terms of program relevance, availability and ease of access of the program, and personal intention of OFWs to improve their economic status. Lastly, it aimed to provide recommendations on how to strengthen reintegration programs and craft a reintegration program economic sustainability framework. The results of the study could serve as baseline information and guide for the government and policymakers in looking at how effective reintegration programs are in improving economic status and sustainability of OFWs, and developing further and improving policies, programs, and services that would help OFWs and their families. Additionally, it would also float existing issues and concerns on the current policies based on the experiences of OFWs that could be appropriately addressed by concerned government offices should they be made aware of the realities. The study covered OFWs in the National Capital Region who availed of reintegration programs. This study used quantitative research method to examine the reintegration program beneficiaries and the effect of such reintegration program in their economic sustainability. A survey was conducted on a sample of OFWs who availed of the programs to look into the effect of these reintegration programs to them, as well as their assessment, experiences, and recommendations for improvement of the program. A survey questionnaire was devised to gather the profile of the sample. Frequency and percentage distribution was used to see the demographic characteristics of the respondents. Multiple regression analysis was employed in determining whether economic sustainability in terms of financial capacity, economic capacity, and social mobility was affected by the level of availment of reintegration program of OFW beneficiaries.

PERAN BRAND IMAGE MEMEDIASI PENGARUH CELEBRITY ENDORSER TERHADAP REPURCHASE INTENTION

Celebrity endorsers are one of the factors that influence a person's intention to buy or reuse (repurchase intention) a product or service. The use of celebrity endorsers in promotions can increase repurchase intention. This study wants to explain the role of brand image in mediating celebrity endorsers on repurchase intention. This research was conducted in Denpasar City involving 80 respondents. The data collection method used is purposive sampling. Data was collected by distributing questionnaires containing statements related to celebrity endorser variables, brand image and repurchase intention. Furthermore, the data from the questionnaire collection was processed using validity and reliability tests to determine the feasibility and consistency of indicators in the questionnaire. In addition to validity and reliability tests, other tests were conducted, namely path analysis and Sobel test. The results showed that celebrity endorser had a positive and significant effect on repurchase intention. Meanwhile, brand image has a positive and significant effect on repurchase intention. So it can be said that to increase repurchase intention, it can be done by increasing the use of celebrity endorsers and growing a good brand image.

O44 - Midwives and maternity vaccination programs: critical learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic

IntroductionVaccination against COVID-19 is an urgent global public health strategy. Health professionals including midwives and doctors support and influence vaccination uptake by childbearing women in their care. The aim of this study was to address the gap in knowledge and explore the perceptions and intentions regarding COVID-19 vaccination from consumers and providers of maternity care in Australia from early in the vaccination roll-out.MethodsA national cross-sectional online study conducted in May 2021 in Australia. Recruitment was undertaken through parenting and health professional social media sites and professional college distribution lists. A total of 853 completed responses were received, from women of childbearing age (n=326), doctors (n=58), midwives (n=391) and midwifery students (n=78).FindingsEarly on in the vaccination roll-out, personal intention to be vaccinated ranged from 48-89% with doctors most likely and women least likely. Doctors and midwifery students were significantly more likely to recommend the vaccine to pregnant women in their care than midwives (p<0.001). More than half of the midwives (53%) had concerns about the COVID-19 vaccine for the women in their care compared with 35% of doctors and 46% of midwifery students. More than half of the practitioners (54%) surveyed were willing to delay or not offer vaccination to pregnant women, with many citing a lack of information to scaffold supportive conversations with those in their care.ConclusionThis is the first study to explore the perceptions and intentions regarding COVID-19 vaccination from both the perspective of those who receive and those who provide maternity care in Australia. Findings have utility to support targeted public health messaging for these and other cohorts. In light of new evidence, critical discussion will reveal the complex and important public health role of midwives and doctors in national maternity vaccination programs.

Comprehensive Analysis of Privacy Attacks in Online Social Network: Security Issues and Challenges

Nowadays, users value their privacy of information is more than money but the Online Social Network is creating new platforms for cybercrime to intimidate innocent users of countries because of the privacy pitfalls in the present traditional centralized architecture like Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter, Instagram, and many more. Third-party apps and malicious attackers breach innocent users' private information, especially adolescent users for their personal purpose. Many Asian countries have no special data protection laws like a European. The main objectives of this research paper are to study the different types of privacy attacks for data confidentiality in the Online Social networks with analyzed mitigation techniques and discussed future proposed work on how to control and detect the user’s private information from unreliable people. Even then, few privacy destructions are unresolved!

Comparison analysis of the correlation between emotional stability and mental health parameters in athletes of various skill levels

The purpose of this research is to investigate the correlation between emotional stability and the following mental health parameters: personal anxiety, self-regulation, neuroticism, and life purpose in athletes of various levels of qualification. Research methods: the study used standardized valid methods including standard questionnaires, r-Pearson correlation analysis, and Student’s t-test to determine significant differences. Results. The research was based on the idea of athletes as self-organization and self-development subjects. As athletes’ sports qualifications increased, there was a statistically significant decrease in personal anxiety, neuroticism, and an improvement in self-regulation as predictors of emotional stability (р&lt;.05; р&lt;.01). Diverse life goals (.233; р&lt;.05) and belief in their implementation (.437; р&lt;.01) were vital for athletes’ dischargers. athletes of the highest level were well aware (.501; р&lt;.01) of the need for diversity (.382; р&lt;.05) and harmony (.434; р&lt;.05) of life purposes. Conclusions. The connection between respondents’ emotional stability and mental health was experimentally proven. Emotional stability has been demonstrated to have a positive impact on the development of respondents’ sports qualifications. The level of awareness of athletes’ life purposes – complex dynamic formations that reflect the nature of knowing their own life situation determined their psychological well-being.

Empirical Investigation of Work-Related Social Media Usage and Social-Related Social Media Usage on Employees' Work Performance.

The trend of using social media in the workplace is now becoming ubiquitous. Along witbenefits, social media also has negative consequences. Employees use social media for both work and social purposes. Therefore, using a quantitative approach, this study explores the impact of work-related social media usage and social-related social media usage on employees’ work performance. This study also investigates the mediating effect of extra-role behaviors on social media usage (professional and personal purpose) and work performance relationships. We examined survey data of 241 employees working in different organizations with the help of the partial least square (PLS) 3.0 version. Convenience sampling has been used to reach respondents. The outcomes of this study demonstrate that both professional and personal-related social media usage have a positive and significant impact on employees’ work performance. This study also highlighted that extra-role behavior positively and significantly mediates the relationship between social media usage (work and personal) and employees’ work performance. This study provides practical insights to managers, such as that, instead of banning social media usage in companies, there must be some limits and regulations for using social media that would facilitate firms to increase employees’ engagement and productivity.

Parental decision and intent towards COVID-19 vaccination in children with asthma: an econometric analysis

ObjectiveVaccination will be instrumental in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic, and vaccination of children will be necessary to achieve herd immunity. Given that children with chronic health conditions may be at increased risk of COVID-19, it is crucial to understand factors influencing parental decisions about whether to have their child vaccinated. The study objectives were to measure parental intent to have their child with asthma vaccinated against COVID-19 and identify the determinants of their vaccination decision.Study designThis study is based on a cross-sectional exploratory observational online survey assessing parents' risk perception in the context of COVID-19.MethodsIn this study conducted in August 2020, the primary outcome was parent’s answer to the question on their intention to get their child vaccinated if a vaccine against COVID-19 was available. Participants were also asked about their intention to get vaccinated themselves. Independent variables studied included sociodemographic, clinical data (e.g. presence of other chronic diseases), psychological, cognitive and risk perception related to COVID-19. Simultaneous equations models (3SLS) and seemingly unrelated regressions model (SUR) were carried out to identify factors associated with intention to have the child vaccinated and participants’ intention to get vaccinated themselves against COVID-19.ResultsA total of 305 participants completed the survey. Overall, 19.1% of participants reported being unlikely or very unlikely to vaccinate their child against COVID-19 if a vaccine was available. Similarly, 21.0% were unlikely or very unlikely to get vaccinated themselves. The following factors were significantly associated with parents’ decision to have their child vaccinated: parental level of education (p = 0.003), employment status (p < 0.001), sex of the child (p = 0.019), presence of other chronic diseases (p = 0.028), whether or not the child had been vaccinated against influenza in the past (p < 0.001), parental anxiety (p = 0.046), and consultation with a health professional since the beginning of the pandemic (p = 0.009). There was a strong relationship between likelihood of not intending to have one’s child vaccinated and personal intent not to get vaccinated.ConclusionThese findings are essential in planning for the communication and dissemination of COVID-19 vaccination information to parents, especially for children with asthma or other chronic medical conditions.

Turning Pirates into Subscribers: A Status Quo Bias Perspective on Online Movie Service Switching Intention

This study aims to analyze the factors that influence a person's intention to use a subscription-based streaming service application using the perspective of the inertia of piracy movie application users. This study investigates the factors that affect the inertia of movie piracy application users. The theory used is a combination of the status quo bias theory and coping theory. This research uses a quantitative approach and an online survey method for data collection. Data collection resulted in 378 responses that were subsequently analyzed using the covariance-based structural equation modeling (CB-SEM) technique. It was found that inertia (the level of user inertia) negatively affects intention to use (the intention to use a subscription-based streaming service application) and convenience. In addition, convenience, perceived controllability (a person's level of control over the application), and morality positively influence intention to use. Furthermore, it was also found that perceived cost and personalization do not affect the intention to use. Inertia is also positively and significantly influenced by the transition cost (effort to move). The factors that have the highest correlation values are transition cost and inertia. Doi: 10.28991/ESJ-2022-06-05-06 Full Text: PDF

Interactive Association of Negative Creative Thinking and Malevolent Creative Thinking.

With the existing research available on negative and malevolent creativity, this paper proposes a more narrowly defined concept: the bi-directional relationship between negative and malevolent creative thinking, which is intended to clarify the way forward for research in the area of negative and malevolent creativity. This paper uses qualitative research to identify and correlate an individual's concept of negative and malevolent creativity and uses a Inductive reasoning methodology to outline a preliminary theory. Following this, the preliminary theory was returned to the primary sources for validation, continuous optimization, and presentation. To better demonstrate the bidirectional linkage mechanism of thinking between the two types, this paper constructed a model to describe the relationships between the variables. This study concludes that negative creative thinking is a kind of native thinking based on personal interests that are developed to emphasize the benefits of an individual's interests, while malevolent creative thinking is a kind of native thinking based on the value-added of personal interests and is deliberately harmful. Both types of thinking share a value orientation, environmental stimulation, and subjective motivation. However, they differ in terms of value goals, ways of thinking, and the scale of the subject. It is concluded from the intrinsic thinking logic of individual thinking as well as the temporal dimension of the individual creative process that value-added and intentions to exploit others are factors that drive the transformation of negative creative thinking into malevolent creative thinking, and personal intention is a vital factor for establishing a linkage between negative and malevolent creative thinking.