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Anxiety Disorders Linked to Superstitious Beliefs in Festish-Motivated Footballers
Portejoie Jean Aimé Tsiama,
Edouard Bakembo Mayoukou
Issue:
Volume 11, Issue 3, June 2022
Pages:
72-79
Received:
6 April 2022
Accepted:
28 April 2022
Published:
7 May 2022
Abstract: The objective of our study was to examine the development of superstitious beliefs in footballers in relation to their emotional instability. This was a descriptive study based on the clinical research interview conducted with a sample of university footballers. Sixteen semi-structured interviews made it possible to collect information on present and past fetishist practices, attitudes and emotions. The participants were recruited by snowball sampling among students enrolled in the 3rd year of a sports license, football option at the Higher Institute of Physical and Sports Education. The average age of the subjects was 21.76±1.95 years. The average duration of football practice in the community was 4.37 years. Cultural expectations related to the obsession with sports victory demonstrated the traditional use of fetishes such as Nkama (22.22%), Mokoyi (42.85%), Ndami (22.22%), Mutoyo (22.22%), Pimba (44.44%), Soukaka (11.11%). For 39.17% of respondents, the emotion of folk music exerts a repulsive force on the adversary. This is intended for the personification of the spirit tamed by the witch doctor by 34.82% of footballers. It is an exhibition of the drive body for 12.31% of footballers in order to limit the opponent's attentional resources. And, 13.7% consider it as the cause of the opponent's falls on the field. The permanent immersion of footballers in superstitious rituals almost explains their adherence to ancestral beliefs in relation to pseudoscientific ideas of the environment. On the one hand, the results consider that the perpetuation of these beliefs leads to abnormal behaviors, which interfere with cognitions prone to anxious emotions. But the level of environmental alienation constitutes a brake against the importance of a psychological consultation, which is almost absent or almost unthought. On the other hand, fetishistic consultations are the consequence of the ignorance of the appropriate techniques of mental preparation by the sportsmen. Beyond that, the results show how the psychopathologist can seize this object by managing to overcome these irrational and paralyzing beliefs through cognitive and behavioral techniques.
Abstract: The objective of our study was to examine the development of superstitious beliefs in footballers in relation to their emotional instability. This was a descriptive study based on the clinical research interview conducted with a sample of university footballers. Sixteen semi-structured interviews made it possible to collect information on present a...
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Modeling Consumer Purchase Intentions in Mobile Shopping Scenarios from a Social Presence Perspective
Chen Daozhi,
Wang Huijuan
Issue:
Volume 11, Issue 3, June 2022
Pages:
80-85
Received:
31 May 2022
Published:
1 June 2022
Abstract: With the rapid development of mobile Internet and the rise of mobile e-commerce in recent years, mobile shopping has become one of the most popular shopping methods nowadays, and how to promote consumers' willingness to purchase online has gradually received widespread attention from the majority of e-commerce companies as well as scholars. The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between the sense of social presence and consumers' purchase intention in the mobile shopping context, by reviewing and deducing the research literature on social presence theory, customer perceived value theory, and consumers' purchase intention, based on the "S-O-R" theory and explanation level theory, the social presence of consumers in the mobile online shopping context is taken as the antecedent variable of consumers' purchase intention, with consumers' different value perceptions as mediating variables, a model of consumer purchase intention was constructed to explore the mechanism of social presence sense on consumer purchase intention, and also to examine the contextual moderating role of explanation level in this process. The results of the study indicate that, 1. The three dimensions of social presence, such as consumers' awareness presence, emotion presence, and cognition presence in mobile online shopping contexts, stimulate different value perceptions of consumers, and different value perceptions further promote different behavioral responses of consumers, i.e., manifest as different purchase intentions. 2. The three dimensions of perceived value, namely functional value, entertainment value, and social value, as abstract feature reflections, at different levels of consumer interpretation Customer perceived value will also have a differential impact on purchase intentions and behaviors.
Abstract: With the rapid development of mobile Internet and the rise of mobile e-commerce in recent years, mobile shopping has become one of the most popular shopping methods nowadays, and how to promote consumers' willingness to purchase online has gradually received widespread attention from the majority of e-commerce companies as well as scholars. The pur...
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Factors Influencing the Purchase of Face Masks in the USA During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Sauda Afrin Anny,
Rezoyana Kabir Rasha,
Fatema Sarker
Issue:
Volume 11, Issue 3, June 2022
Pages:
86-91
Received:
17 May 2022
Accepted:
8 June 2022
Published:
20 June 2022
Abstract: COVID-19, one of the most challenging unprecedented global pandemics of human history, has changed people's work life and social life tremendously. Wearing a face mask is one of the most visible habits that people had to adapt to reduce the transmission of the Coronavirus. The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of respondents' socio-demographic factors and working place on their face mask purchasing behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA. Secondary cross-sectional data were used in this study. An online survey administered on social media (between 20-30 March 2020) was used to collect data from adult research participants that reside in the United States through Qualtrics. From total of 6602 data, after deducting the missing values, 4949 data were used in this study for further analysis. The binary logistic regression model was used to conduct the study. The study found gender, age, education, and workplace as significant factors that influence people's face mask purchasing behavior. In addition, college education, gender, and workplace are positively associated with face mask purchase. Conversely, young age is negatively associated with respondents' face mask purchases. Though the study has limitations in the case of data representation and uses only a few variables, its findings provide some critical insights to the marketers to restructure their market segmentation. Besides, results could offer essential understandings to the relevant stakeholders, who are working to ensure face cover by people to reduce transmission of Coronavirus.
Abstract: COVID-19, one of the most challenging unprecedented global pandemics of human history, has changed people's work life and social life tremendously. Wearing a face mask is one of the most visible habits that people had to adapt to reduce the transmission of the Coronavirus. The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of responden...
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When Society Deteriorates: Political Intolerance, Perceived Anomic Threat and Participation in Anti-system Collective Actions in the Context of Authoritarian Democracy
Gustave Adolphe Messanga,
Hermann Kevin Ekango Nzekaih
Issue:
Volume 11, Issue 3, June 2022
Pages:
92-104
Received:
27 May 2022
Accepted:
13 June 2022
Published:
20 June 2022
Abstract: The literature reports that individuals living in repressive environments tend to avoid participating in collective actions, in particular because of the risks of confrontation with intimidation, arbitrary arrests, violence, and even death. However, some researches has begun to document the psychosocial mechanisms that could motivate them to overcome these risks: feeling of outrage generated by state repression, identification with civil society and moral obligation to resist, for example. The present study, conducted in the context of authoritarian democracy, is situated in this line of research by proposing anomic threat, considered as the perceived disintegration and deregulation of society, as an incentive variable of the propensity to protest against the system in a repressive environment. It suggests that when individuals perceive the degradation of society from the points of view of its leadership and values, they may realize that inaction is likely to accentuate it and may be inclined to participate in collective actions with a view to restore the fractured social structure and leadership, despite the risks of repression from the governing system. In this logic, the hypothesis tested predicts that perceived anomic threat reinforces the relationship between perceived political intolerance and participation in anti-system collective actions in the context of authoritarian democracy. 275 Cameroonians, aged between 17 and 47 years (M. = 24.24; S.D. = 5.71) agreed to participate in the research. Measures focused on perceived political intolerance, perceived anomic threat, perceived efficacy of collective actions, participation in anti-system collective actions, distrust and grievances towards political authority. The results show that when participants are experimentally confronted with the degrading character of society, their perception of anomic threat reinforces the relationship between political intolerance and participation in anti-system collective actions, due to the activation of negative emotions and the perceived efficacy of the said actions. The theoretical implications of these results are discussed.
Abstract: The literature reports that individuals living in repressive environments tend to avoid participating in collective actions, in particular because of the risks of confrontation with intimidation, arbitrary arrests, violence, and even death. However, some researches has begun to document the psychosocial mechanisms that could motivate them to overco...
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