April 2011

Gender and age variations in perceptions of situational appropriateness of academic integrity among students in Kwara State, Nigeria

  This study investigated the extent to which male and female students differ in their endorsement of academic integrity across the variables of age, institution type and marital status. One thousand students from ten secondary and tertiary institutions in Kwara state, Nigeria, responded to three hypothetical scenarios created to measure their academic integrity status. Findings of the study indicated that high...

Author(s):   Olasehinde-Williams Olabisi, Olawuyi Olabisi and Yahaya Lasiele Alabi    

April 2011

Happiness and worry in an Iranian adolescents and young adults sample

  The purpose of the present study was to examine the happiness and worry in adolescents and young adults, the effects of gender and age group in these constructs, and the role of happiness in prediction of worry. Participants were 200 adolescents and 200 young adults from Eghlid in Iran and they were selected through random sampling in this survey. A demographic questionnaire, the Oxford Happiness...

Author(s):   Siamak Khodarahimi    

April 2011

The impact of the sellers’ perceived ethical behaviour on consumers’ emotions and behaviour intention

  This research aims to verify the effect of consumers’ evaluation of sellers’ ethical behaviour on their emotion and behaviour intention. Actually, the concept of ethics have been partially studied before Reidenbach and Robin’s work and its consideration as an antecedent of consumer behaviour has not been proven. Previous studies have integrated few indirect effects of ethics on behaviour...

Author(s):   Asma Bouguerra, Nabil Mzoughi, Karim Garrouch and Hallouma Bouazza