What drives willingness to purchase and stated buying behavior toward organic food? A Stimulus–Organism–Behavior–Consequence (SOBC) perspective

The consumption of organic food is gaining ground globally due to consumers’ concerns for personal health and food safety. Several countries, such as Japan, are turning their focus to promoting organic food consumption, but research is scarce on Japan’s organic food market. Additionally, despite consumers’ positive predisposition, retail sales in Japan for organic food are low, and there is a need to understand the reason for this disparity. The present study addressed this need by examining factors that may drive consumers’ willingness to purchase (WTP) and stated buying behavior (SBB) toward organic food through the StimuluseOrganismeBehavioreConsequence (SOBC) paradigm. The developed model was tested using cross-sectional data collected from 928 Japanese consumers. Study findings suggest that food safety concerns (FSC) and health consciousness are positively related to openness to change, and ethical self-identity. Further, openness to change and ethical self-identity are positively associated with WTP, while SBB is positively associated with WTP. In addition to this, buying frequency positively moderated the association of self-identity with WTP and WTP with SBB. The study offers critical im- plications for researchers, marketers and retailers.publishedVersio

Purchasing natural personal care products in the era of fake news? The moderation effect of brand trust

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Exploring Antecedents of Cyberchondria During Pandemics: An integration of Stress and Coping and SOR

Online health information seeking (OHIS) has become the main approach to obtaining health information especially during Covid-19 pandemic. Being increasingly exposed to online health information, cyberchondria, one of the dark sides of excessive online information exposure, has attracted increasing attention. Prior research has concentrated primarily on how information overload can affect cyberchondria. As a pattern composed of cognition, emotion and behavior, cyberchondria may be affected by the subjective emotional and behavioral factors, such as fear of missing out (FoMO) as well as excessive communication online via social media. Based on the theory of stress and coping and stimulus-organism-response (SOR) framework, a research model was proposed to examine the mechanism underlying the impact of exposure to online health information on information overload and communication overload with FoMO as a moderator, which subsequently affects cyberchondria. Online survey will be conducted for data collection. Data analysis methods and the expected contribution is discussed

What drives willingness to purchase and stated buying behavior toward organic food? A Stimulus–Organism–Behavior–Consequence (SOBC) perspective

The consumption of organic food is gaining ground globally due to consumers’ concerns for personal health and food safety. Several countries, such as Japan, are turning their focus to promoting organic food consumption, but research is scarce on Japan’s organic food market. Additionally, despite consumers’ positive predisposition, retail sales in Japan for organic food are low, and there is a need to understand the reason for this disparity. The present study addressed this need by examining factors that may drive consumers’ willingness to purchase (WTP) and stated buying behavior (SBB) toward organic food through the Stimulus–Organism–Behavior–Consequence (SOBC) paradigm. The developed model was tested using cross-sectional data collected from 928 Japanese consumers. Study findings suggest that food safety concerns (FSC) and health consciousness are positively related to openness to change, and ethical self-identity. Further, openness to change and ethical self-identity are positively associated with WTP, while SBB is positively associated with WTP. In addition to this, buying frequency positively moderated the association of self-identity with WTP and WTP with SBB. The study offers critical implications for researchers, marketers and retailers.</p

Using Social Media for Online English Assignments: Problems and Solutions

Social media are widely used in today’s activities for all levels of humans. In students’ daily activities, updating their status through social media is like a must. Thus, the writer wants to highlight her teaching activity to something that her students love doing in it. English and social media become her concern to write this paper. Therefore, the aim of this research is to find out the kind and examples of vocabulary learned and appropriate grammar that appear in the students’ social media during this online learning era. She will also tell the steps, challenges and solutions based on her English teaching experience. The method is qualitative research, by finding, describing and analyzing the data in students’ social media after online learning English. The data shows that many students apply correct grammar, but only a few students use vocabularies learned from online class to update their status in social media. Besides, the lecturer provides some suggestions to fix their errors in using the words in a sentence. This research is supported by other relevant studies about the advantage of social media in learning and it  tries to contribute ideas toward different opinions from other researchers. The findings also more detailed on the use of correct English grammar and vocabulary in social media

Life events, depression and supportive relationships affect academic achievement in university students

Students often simultaneously deal with shifting support networks, stressful life changes and psychological distress which may affect academic achievement. Methods: 285 students completed the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) to assess depression and the Computerized Life Events Assessment Record (CLEAR), to establish life events and supportive relationships. Module grades were used to measure academic achievement. A general linear model was used with student grade as the dependent variable and life events, depression and supportive relationships as independent variables. Confounding variables included age and sex. Results: A three-way interaction between life events, depression and lack of supportive relationships was found. It indicated the performance of depressed students depended on whether they had supportive relationships and that this interaction also depended on whether they had experienced a life event in the past year. Conclusions: Universities need to provide more support to students with life stress as they transition into university life

Understanding Digital Hoarding Behaviors of Social Media Users from a Stress Coping Perspective

Despite the information value brought by social media, the abundance of information on social media also contributes to digital hoarding. However, the underlying mechanisms about how digital hoarding behaviors in the social media context are formed has not been well studied. Thus, capturing the unique features of social media, this study tries to explore the impacts of information characteristics on digital hoarding from a stress coping perspective. Specifically, we identify three key information characteristics of social media namely information narrowing, information redundancy and information overload, and proposes that these information characteristics affect digital hoarding through two key cognitive appraisals namely perceived value uncertainty and cognitive load. Further, individuals\u27 information-seeking self-efficacy is proposed to moderate the relationship between cognitive appraisals and digital hoarding. A survey was administered to examine the proposed research model. The theoretical and practical implications are thoroughly examined and discussed finally

Analisis pengaruh overload penggunaan media sosial terhadap performa akademik mahasiswa menggunakan stressor strain outcome perspective

Fenomena penggunaan media sosial dan internet telah menjadi hal yang berkembang pesat. Mahasiswa memiliki tingkat penggunaan yang besar dalam menggunakan media sosial dan internet untuk menunjang aktivitas mereka, baik aktivitas akademik maupun non akademik. Meskipun internet dan media sosial berperan penting dan memiliki dampak positif, tentunya terdapat dampak negatif seperti stress dan kelelahan dari penggunaan media sosial yang berlebihan. Apabila penggunaan media sosial tidak diatur dengan baik, maka overload dari penggunaan media sosial dapat terjadi dan menyebabkan technostress serta exhaustion. Dengan menggunakan model Stressor Strain Outcome, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengukur bagaimana faktor overload (information, communication dan social overload) dari penggunaan media sosial yang berlebihan dapat memberikan kondisi technostress dan exhaustion pada mahasiswa sehingga mempengaruhi performa akademik mereka. Model tersebut diujikan pada 202 mahasiswa Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Ampel Surabaya dengan teknik analisis data menggunakan SEM (Structural Equation Model) dengan bantuan SmartPLS versi 3.0. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan ketiga faktor overload (information, communication dan social overload) merupakan pengaruh signifikan yang menciptakan kondisi technostress pada mahasiswa, namun hanya information overload saja yang memberikan pengaruh terhadap exhaustion. Selain itu, technostress terbukti memberikan pengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap performa akademik. Berlawanan dengan exhaustion yang memberikan pengaruh negatif signifikan terhadap performa akademik. Pada variabel kontrol, umur dan jenis kelamin tidak memberi pengaruh signifikan terhadap performa akademik mahasiswa, namun variabel kontrol spirituality memberikan pengaruh positif signifikan terhadap performa akademik mahasiswa

Why do People Share Misinformation during the COVID-19 Pandemic?

The World Health Organization have emphasised that misinformation - spreading rapidly through social media - poses a serious threat to the COVID-19 response. Drawing from theories of health perception and cognitive load, we develop and test a research model hypothesizing why people share unverified COVID-19 information through social media. Our findings suggest a person's trust in online information and perceived information overload are strong predictors of unverified information sharing. Furthermore, these factors, along with a person's perceived COVID-19 severity and vulnerability influence cyberchondria. Females were significantly more likely to suffer from cyberchondria, however, males were more likely to share news without fact checking their source. Our findings suggest that to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 misinformation and cyberchondria, measures should be taken to enhance a healthy skepticism of health news while simultaneously guarding against information overload