Fear of Crime remains a relevant theme in criminological research. Its associations include damage to psychological well-being, decreases in collective cohesion and trust, and populism. Located in the field of victimology, previous research found that significant predictors for Fear of Crime are: Previous Victimization, Previous Victimization with ...
Published in Preventive Medicine Reports
Older individuals who smoke are at increased risk of having severe outcomes from COVID-19, due to their long-term smoking and underlying health conditions. In this qualitative study, we explored the impact of COVID-19 on attitudes toward smoking and motivation to quit. Participants (N = 30) were enrolled in a larger ongoing randomized controlled sm...
Published in Social Science & Medicine (1982)
• Confidence in Social Institutions increase adoption protective measures. • In Brazil, confidence in the government is negative related to adopting protective measures. • Self-Confidence increases use of protective measures. • Fear and perceived risk of infection increase the adoption of protective measures.
Bachelor's / BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (HONOURS) / BACHELOR OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (HONOURS)
Published in Psycho-oncology
Elevated anxiety and breast cancer worry can impede mammographic screening and early breast cancer detection. Genetic advances and risk models make personalized breast cancer risk assessment and communication feasible, but it is unknown whether such communication of risk affects anxiety and disease-specific worry. We studied the effect of a persona...
Published in Drug and alcohol dependence
Amid changing marijuana policies in the Southern Cone, we examined relationships between marijuana-related risk factors and marijuana use among adolescents in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay from 2001 to 2016. Using cross-sectional surveys from 8th, 10th, and 12th graders and weighted time-varying effect models, we estimated associations between perc...
The sharing economy is a topic that is discussed continuously in the media as it continues to grow and large corporations continue to flourish. This disruptive technology in coalition with regulatory question marks has allowed sharing economy companies to change the business landscape in a number of industries in a short amount of time. However, th...
Purpose The purpose of this thesis is to develop a conceptualized model, which identifies the significant variables of perceived risk for current Airbnb users towards becoming a host of their own residence on Airbnb’s platform. There is a lack of information concerning the host’s risk perception to cross the trust barrier in order to become a host ...
Online grocery shopping has enjoyed strong growth and it is predicted this channel will continue to grow exponentially in the coming years. While online shopping has attracted an abundance of research interest, examinations of online grocery shopping behaviour are only now emerging. Shopping online for groceries differs considerably from general on...
In a time during which the consumer has the choice of many similar products (Burnett, 2007), retailers seek business growth and competiveness, for example through the introduction of their own private label (Pepe, 2008). Thus the interest and relevance of private labels has increased in recent years (Nielsen, 2014; Gázquez-Abad et al., 2014). As st...
