Shirley Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 6035703 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shirley Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shirley |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sexual Risk Behaviors of African American Adolescent Females: The Role of Cognitive and Religious Factors
Introduction: African American (AA) high school-age girls are more likely to have had sex before age 13 years and have higher rates of all sexually transmitted infections. Cognition and religion/spirituality are associated with adolescent sexuality, therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify cognitive and religious substrates of AA girls’ risky sexual behaviors. Method: A descriptive study was conducted with 65 AA girls aged 15 to 20 ye…
Magical Thinking and Consumer Coping
Magical thinking is often regarded as a cognitive distortion, whereby consumers irrationally invoke mystical, supernatural forces to cope with stressful situations. Adopting a culture-based theoretical lens, this article examines magical thinking as an integral element of contemporary consumer society, a cultural practice of meaning negotiation that works to restore the experience of interconnectedness when this experience has been broken. The an…
Lay and Professional Perspectives of the Causes of Health: A Comparative Network Approach
Lay and professional interpretations of the structure of causal factors previously demonstrated to be influencing health were examined through network analysis. Fifty-three first level registered nurses and sixty-three social science students were asked to complete network adjacency grids for factors that affect health. There is considerable agreement between the lay and professional view – with stress , lifestyle , health knowledge , work and ho…
Assessing IT Usage: The Role of Prior Experience
A variety of models that incorporate attitudinal, social, and control factor have been advanced to explain IT usage, of which the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) is the most well know. One goal of such models is to develop diagnostic tools to predict information systems acceptance and facilitate design changes before users have experience with a system. However, empirical tests of these models have generally focused on either systems that were …
Understanding Information Technology Usage: A Test of Competing Models
The Technology Acceptance Model and two variations of the Theory of Planned Behavior were compared to assess which model best helps to understand usage of information technology. The models were compared using student data collected from 786 potential users of a computer resource center. Behavior data was based on monitoring 3,780 visits to the resource center over a 12-week period. Weighted least squares estimation revealed that all three models…
Decomposition and crossover effects in the theory of planned behavior: A study of consumer adoption intentions
Correlations between the Offer Self-Image Questionnaire for Adolescents and the minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory in a psychiatric hospital population
Magical Thinking and Consumer Coping
Magical thinking is often regarded as a cognitive distortion, whereby consumers irrationally invoke mystical, supernatural forces to cope with stressful situations. Adopting a culture-based theoretical lens, this article examines magical thinking as an integral element of contemporary consumer society, a cultural practice of meaning negotiation that works to restore the experience of interconnectedness when this experience has been broken. The an…
Correlations between the Offer Self-Image Questionnaire for Adolescents and the minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory in a psychiatric hospital population
Correlations between the Offer Self-Image Questionnaire for Adolescents and the minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory in a psychiatric hospital population
Assessing IT Usage: The Role of Prior Experience
A variety of models that incorporate attitudinal, social, and control factor have been advanced to explain IT usage, of which the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) is the most well know. One goal of such models is to develop diagnostic tools to predict information systems acceptance and facilitate design changes before users have experience with a system. However, empirical tests of these models have generally focused on either systems that were …
Understanding Information Technology Usage: A Test of Competing Models
The Technology Acceptance Model and two variations of the Theory of Planned Behavior were compared to assess which model best helps to understand usage of information technology. The models were compared using student data collected from 786 potential users of a computer resource center. Behavior data was based on monitoring 3,780 visits to the resource center over a 12-week period. Weighted least squares estimation revealed that all three models…
Decomposition and crossover effects in the theory of planned behavior: A study of consumer adoption intentions
Lay and Professional Perspectives of the Causes of Health: A Comparative Network Approach
Lay and professional interpretations of the structure of causal factors previously demonstrated to be influencing health were examined through network analysis. Fifty-three first level registered nurses and sixty-three social science students were asked to complete network adjacency grids for factors that affect health. There is considerable agreement between the lay and professional view – with stress , lifestyle , health knowledge , work and ho…
Magical Thinking and Consumer Coping
Magical thinking is often regarded as a cognitive distortion, whereby consumers irrationally invoke mystical, supernatural forces to cope with stressful situations. Adopting a culture-based theoretical lens, this article examines magical thinking as an integral element of contemporary consumer society, a cultural practice of meaning negotiation that works to restore the experience of interconnectedness when this experience has been broken. The an…
Sexual Risk Behaviors of African American Adolescent Females: The Role of Cognitive and Religious Factors
Introduction: African American (AA) high school-age girls are more likely to have had sex before age 13 years and have higher rates of all sexually transmitted infections. Cognition and religion/spirituality are associated with adolescent sexuality, therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify cognitive and religious substrates of AA girls’ risky sexual behaviors. Method: A descriptive study was conducted with 65 AA girls aged 15 to 20 ye…
Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Technology Adoption and User Behaviour (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works) · Cognition (2 works) · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification (2 works) · Control (management) (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works)