In general, people are poorly protected against cyberthreats, with the main reason being user behaviour. For the study described in this paper, a ques-tionnaire was developed in order to understand how people’s knowledge of and attitude towards both cyberthreats and cyber security controls affect in-tention to adopt cybersecure behaviour. The study divides attitude into a cog-nitive and an affective component. Although only the cognitive component of attitude is usually studied, the results from a questionnaire of 300 respond-ents show that both the affective and cognitive components of attitude have a clearly positive, albeit varying, influence on behavioural intention, with the affective component having an even greater effect on attitude than the cog-nitive aspect. No correlation was found between knowledge and behavioural intention. The results indicate that attitude is an important factor to include when developing behavioural interventions, but also that different kinds of attitude should be addressed differently in interventions.
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To find, design and create solutions to global challenges, 21st century engineering professionals work in multi-disciplinary and international teams that are expected to work effectively, efficiently and innovatively. Universities are following this trend, as they acknowledge the importance of soft skills for employability. The integration of soft skills in higher education curricula is not straightforward, especially in engineering education. At our university, soft skills courses score low in student satisfaction surveys. This is the reason why we study the motivation, attitude and anxiety of computer engineering students toward learning soft skills. To do so, we performed a quantitative study using an online survey based on the mini-AMBT. Overall, our data indicate that computer engineering students have a positive motivation and attitude toward learning soft skills from both an integrative and an instrumental perspective. The obtained results do not give clear insights as to what causes the low satisfaction scores for soft skill courses. All of the above calls for further, qualitative research. We studied the motivation and attitude of computer engineering students in a Dutch university of applied sciences; the motivation and attitude of students in other disciplines and countries may differ and should be studied separately. Full text for members of IEEE : https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8363231/
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Het lectoraat Image in Context van het Kenniscentrum Kunst en Samenleving in Groningen heeft in de afgelopen acht jaar van zijn bestaan gezocht naar nieuwe rollen voor kunstenaars en ontwerpers in sociale contexten. Zoekend naar de specifieke rol die de kunsten (als een verzamelnaam voor de disciplines die binnen een kunstacademie gedoceerd worden) kunnen innemen in sociale omgevingen, ontstond er als vanzelf een focus op de artistieke attitude als datgene waarmee een kunstenaar, naast zijn beeldende kwaliteiten, zich onderscheidt. Immers zonder een artistieke attitude komen beeldende kwaliteiten minder tot hun recht en wordt kunstenaarschap een ambacht. En in een sociale omgeving maakt de artistieke attitude van de kunstenaar het verschil met bijvoorbeeld een sociaal werker of een zorgprofessional. Het is een attitude die door hem of haar wordt ontwikkeld binnen het kunstonderwijs.
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Background: The purpose of this study was to explore physiotherapists’ knowledge, attitude, and practice behavior in assessing and managing patients with non-specific, non-traumatic, acute- and subacute neck pain, with a focus on prognostic factors for chronification. Method: A qualitative study using in-depth semi-structured interviews was conducted with 13 physiotherapists working in primary care. A purposive sampling method served to seek the broadest perspectives. The knowledgeattitude and practice framework was used as an analytic lens throughout the process. Textual data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis with an inductive approach and constant comparison. Results: Seven main themes emerged from the data; physiotherapists self-estimated knowledge and attitude, role clarity, therapeutic relationship, internal- and external barriers to practice behavior, physiotherapists’ practice behaviors, and self-reflection. These findings are presented in an adjusted knowledge-attitude and practice behavior framework. Conclusion: A complex relationship was found between a physiotherapist’s knowledge about, attitude, and practice behavior concerning the diagnostic process and interventions for non-specific, non-traumatic, acute, and subacute neck pain. Overall, physiotherapists used a biopsychosocial view of patients with non-specific neck pain. Physiotherapists’ practice behaviors was influenced by individual attitudes towards their professional role and therapeutic relationship with the patient, and individual knowledge and skills, personal routines and habits, the feeling of powerlessness to modify patients’ external factors, and patients’ lack of willingness to a biopsychosocial approach influenced physiotherapists’ clinical decisions. In addition, we found self-reflection to have an essential role in developing self-estimated knowledge and change in attitude towards their therapeutic role and therapist-patient relationship.
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De afgelopen jaren brachten praktijken van kunstenaars in niet-artistieke omgevingen mijn denken in beweging. Waar ik vroeger verwonderd kon raken van de beeldende uitkomsten van het artistieke proces en wilde begrijpen hoe processen van betekenisvorming beschreven konden worden, zo raakte ik de afgelopen jaren vooral verwonderd door de wijze waarop kunstenaars aanwezig zijn, hoe zij kijken, hoe zij beslissen, wanneer en hoe ze handelen, hoe ze verantwoordelijkheid nemen. Ik spreek met hen en stel vragen om die processen beter te begrijpen en ik zoek in de literatuur naar mensen bij wie ik mijn zoektocht herken. Dat proces van bewegen en bewogen worden ligt aan de basis van De artistieke attitude.”
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Dit artikel laat zien hoe artistiek onderzoek gegrond kan worden in wat we “de artistieke attitude” noemen en begrepen kan worden vanuit het performatieve paradigma. De kern is dat artistiek onderzoek niet zozeer op zoek is naar ‘objectieve’ kennis, maar naar een meer ecologisch gevoelige benadering, waarin onverwachte verwevingen ontstaan en ontmoetingen mogen plaatsvinden.
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‘In recent years, the practices of artists in non-artistic environments have set my mind in motion. Where before I could marvel at the visual outcomes of the artistic process and would want to understand how processes of creating meaning could be described, I am now particularly struck by the way in which artists are present, by their way of looking, how they make decisions, when and how they act, how they take responsibility. I have conversations with them and ask questions to better understand their processes, and I explore literature to find people with a similar quest. This process of moving and being moved lies at the heart of the book The Artistic Attitude.’
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With the increase of Virtual Reality (VR), the importance of advertising within VR has become more relevant. However, it is unclear whether advertising strategies used in traditional media also work in VR. This study is focused on openness in advertisements, an advertisement strategy that refers to the degree of guidance towards the intended message. More open means less guidance and is often used to increase attention and attitude. However, open ads have not been researched in VR before. In this study, VR-advertisements were created and tested that differ in openness. An experiment with 87 participants revealed new ways of creating openness based on positioning and timing of anchoring cues. Moreover, the results revealed a negative effect of openness on interpretation, consistent with findings in studies using traditional media. Unexpectedly, openness in VR-advertisements did not influence (ad and brand) attitude, possibly due to the newness-effect causing high appreciation for ads in VR.
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Poster presentatie + poster award, Hanze Research Dag, 29 januari 2014 De Nederlandse overheid heeft beleid en doelstellingen geformuleerd ten aanzien van deelname aan excellentieonderwijs en het tot stand brengen van een cultuur van excellentie. Maar waarderen studenten wel de mogelijkheden die nu door onderwijsinstellingen worden georganiseerd om uit te blinken in onderwijs? In dit onderzoek wordt de vraag gesteld waar de houding van studenten ten aanzien van honoursonderwijs op gestoeld is.
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Background: Direct support professionals’(DSPs’) attitudes toward nutrition are important for supporting a healthy lifestyle of persons with intellectual disabilities. However, there are no instruments to measure it. The aim of this study was to compose a questionnaire and determine its internal validity.Method: The previously validated Health Enhancing Physical Activity questionnaire was adapted into the Attitude of DSPs for Health Enhancing Nutrition (ADSP-HENU) and completed by 31 DSPs. The internal validity of the questionnaire was investigated by Cronbach’s Alpha and an exploratorynon-parametric item response analysis (NIRT).Results: The internal consistency by Cronbach’s Alpha was good (0.87, 95% CI [0.81–0.94]). NIRT showed monotonicity with wide confidence bounds and sufficient point polyserial correlations of the items. This indicates that each attributes to the overall measured attitude.Conclusion: The internal validity of the ADSP-HENU is promising, and it can be used in daily practice for evaluation or adapting interventions to DSPs’ needs.
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