Tiempo destinado a Internet por los adolescentes españoles: diferencias según la práctica de deporte y el afecto recibido

Adolescents are currently the age group that devotes the most time to using the Internet and are the most vulnerable to its harmful use. Fostering strategies aimed at reducing anxiety and depression, and increasing self-steem may help reduce overuse of new technologies. Using the 2016 National Survey on Drug Use Among High School Students in Spain, we analyze, estimating a linear Seemingly Unrelated Regression system, the time devoted by Spanish teenagers to the following online activities: email and messaging, social networking, games, gambling and pornographic and violent websites. The results suggest that fostering the practice of sports and advising parents about the benefits of caring relationships with their children can be useful strategies to reduce the time devoted to new digital technologies

On Online Banking Authentication for All: A Comparison of BankID Login Efficiency Using Smartphones Versus Code Generators

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SCAview: an Intuitive Visual Approach to the Integrative Analysis of Clinical Data in Spinocerebellar Ataxias

With SCAview, we present a prompt and comprehensive tool that enables scientists to browse large datasets of the most common spinocerebellar ataxias intuitively and without technical effort. Basic concept is a visualization of data, with a graphical handling and filtering to select and define subgroups and their comparison. Several plot types to visualize all data points resulting from the selected attributes are provided. The underlying synthetic cohort is based on clinical data from five different European and US longitudinal multicenter cohorts in spinocerebellar ataxia type 1, 2, 3, and 6 (SCA1, 2, 3, and 6) comprising > 1400 patients with overall > 5500 visits. First, we developed a common data model to integrate the clinical, demographic, and characterizing data of each source cohort. Second, the available datasets from each cohort were mapped onto the data model. Third, we created a synthetic cohort based on the cleaned dataset. With SCAview, we demonstrate the feasibility of mapping cohort data from different sources onto a common data model. The resulting browser-based visualization tool with a thoroughly graphical handling of the data offers researchers the unique possibility to visualize relationships and distributions of clinical data, to define subgroups and to further investigate them without any technical effort. Access to SCAview can be requested via the Ataxia Global Initiative and is free of charge

Consumer–brand identification revisited: An integrative framework of brand identification, customer satisfaction, and price image and their role for brand loyalty and word of mouth

Consumer–brand identification has received considerable attraction among scholars and practitioners in recent years. We contribute to previous research by proposing an integrative model that includes consumer–brand identification, customer satisfaction, and price image to investigate the interrelationships among these constructs as well as their effects on brand loyalty and positive word of mouth. To provide general results, we empirically test the model using a sample of 1443 respondents from a representative consumer panel and 10 service/product brands. The results demonstrate that identification, satisfaction, and price image significantly influence both loyalty and word of mouth. Moreover, we find significant interrelationships among the constructs: Identification positively influences both satisfaction and price image, which also increases satisfaction. By disclosing the relative importance of three separate ways of gaining and retaining customers, this study helps managers more appropriately choose the right mix of branding, pricing, and relationship marketing. From an academic point of view, our research is the first to explicitly examine the effects of the concept of identification for price management and to integrate variables from the fields of branding, relationship marketing, and behavioral pricing, which have separately been identified as particularly important determinants of marketing outcomes

Cues adopted by consumers in examining corporate website favorability: an empirical study of financial institutions in the UK and Russia

The purpose of this paper is to explore, reconcile and depict corporate website favorability (CWF), its antecedents and consequences in the financial setting in the UK and Russia context. To achieve the goals of this study, the research adopted a mixed method research design by using a survey, which is supported by insights from in-depth interviews and focus group discussions. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and Structural equation modeling (SEM) were applied to gain insight into the various influences and relationships. The paper develops and empirically validates the framework of CWF antecedents and consequences. The paper indicates essential guidance for cross-functional managers and designers regarding the integrated and holistic utilization of building favorable corporate websites as part of the corporate identity management. The paper adds to the understanding of CWF and discusses the antecedents of CWF by drawing upon the existing literature. Furthermore, it offers possible consequences of CWF and provides a framework for future testing

Consumer devotion to a different height How consumers are defending the brand within Facebook brand communities

Purpose - Effective handling of negative word of mouth in the social media has dramatic impact on customer retention, deflects potential damage and improves profitability. Although marketers enact various defensive strategies to combat such negative publicity, consumers are increasingly acting on behalf of marketers and new value creating behaviors are noticed within virtual brand communities. The purpose of this paper is to explore the kind of consumers' defensive behaviors present within Facebook brand communities (FBCs).Design/methodology/approach - A netnographic approach guided the data collection. Data were gathered by downloading messages; only the threads related to member's defensive behaviors were downloaded and archived. This resulted to 34 pages of data with 418 individual comments and 6,257 words in total.Findings - Data reveals that defensive behavior is practiced within Facebook, noticing that more diverse types of defensive behaviors are practiced in high involved products. Also, defensive behaviors are more prevalent within utilitarian rather than hedonic brands.Research limitations/implications - This study suggests that marketers should be open to engage and empower consumers to fulfill the role of defending the brand within brand communities first.Originality/value - This work adds to previous literature on handling complaints in social media by analyzing how devoted consumers may defend the brand against negative remarks done by other consumers in FBCs. This study not only confirms that defensive behaviors are apparent within the eight FBCs considered, but also investigates possible differences between high and low involved brands and also utilitarian and hedonic brands

Citizen Adoptation of E-government Based on TAM and TPB Models

The increasing use of the Internet has enabled government to promote online initiatives to connect government to citizens. Indeed, the provision of public e-services may be understood as an improvement in the public function of the Administration. However, e-government initiatives are sometimes fruitless since citizens do not accept them. To move on this topic, the objective of this work is to propose a model based on TAM and TPB theories to better understand e-government adoption. In addition, we also integrate trust in the proposed model since this variable has an especial relevance in e-transactions. Finally, we propose some recommendations for the management of e-government initiatives.E-Government adoption; TAM; TPB; Trust; G2C relationship

The role of usability and satisfaction in the consumer's commitment to a financial services website

In this paper, we have analysed the antecedents of affective commitment to a website, due to the fact that commitment is a key factor in order to maintain a long-term relationship between the consumer and the business in the online context. In terms of affective commitment, we have found a positive, direct and significant relationship between website perceived usability and consumer's affective commitment. So, higher levels of website usability might lead to higher levels of consumer's affective commitment to the website. In addition, in this research we have also noticed a direct, positive and significant relationship between satisfaction in previous interactions and the consumer's commitment to a financial services website.internet banking; customer satisfaction; website usability; affective commitment; financial services websites; online banking; electronic banking; e-banking; electronic finance.

A homogeneous matrix approach to 3D kinematics and dynamics—II. Applications to chains of rigid bodies and serial manipulators

In this paper we present applications of the new approach to the kinematic and dynamic analysis of systems of rigid bodies presented in Part I. An extension of the method to the Lagrangian formulation of the dynamics of chains of rigid bodies is also presented. The kinematic and dynamic analysis is preformed for a generic serial manipulator either in open and closed loop. Two numerical examples concerning an open loop and a closed loop are presented too. Two software packages based on our approach are also briefly introduced