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Adolescents' response to parental Facebook friend requests: The comparative influence of privacy management, parent-child relational quality, attitude and peer influence
(2015)
As adolescents increasingly use smartphones to access the Internet, parental ability to monitor their online activities diminishes. An established surveillance technique ls for parents to 'friend' their adolescent children ...
Ethical issues in online therapy: Assessing compliance with best practice in Ireland and the United Kingdom
(2017)
Online therapy has been an accepted treatment option for mental health professionals and their clients for almost 20 years and offers many advantages. Despite evidence of its efficacy, the adoption rate for online therapy ...
The influence of personality traits on impulsive online shopping behaviours
(2018)
The objective of this research was to seek and understanding of how the role of demographics and personality traits influence impulsive shopping behaviours within online retail platforms. Whilst previous research has focused ...
Analysing the relationship between personality traits and use of emoji in the workplace
(2017)
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between personality, age and gender and the use of emoji in the workplace. To date, there is a gap in knowledge of how emoji are used in professional communication. ...
Diabetes technologies; An investigation into diabetes-related distress, satisfaction and perceived usability improvements
(2021)
Type one diabetes is characterised by the body’s inability to produce insulin. Individuals with type one diabetes use glucometers and insulin pumps to manage their blood sugar levels. With no prospect of a cure, it is ...
The impact of unconscious gender bias on online professional networking & recruitment
(2018)
The differences in how men and women communicate has been a popular debate and of interest to researchers for many years. Conflict and misunderstanding derived from different gender communication styles have had an impact ...
A cross-cultural analysis of personality traits in Irish and American online dating profiles
(2011)
This research used language analysis to determine personality traits from written text, in the profiles of Irish and American online daters. The free text element of 150 Irish and 150 American Caucasian, male, online daters’ ...
Where have all the good men gone? An exploration of misogyny and anti-feminist discourse in the ‘Mansophere’
(2021)
The Manosphere is a newly theorized online anti-feminist space that has been implicated in the execution of several violent attacks (Van Valkenburgh, 2018). This qualitative thematic analysis adds to conceptualizations of ...
The conscious and compulsive connection - An exploratory investigation into potential predictors of nomophobia among Irish smartphone users
(2019)
The concept of Nomophobia is recognised among researchers when describing smartphone separation anxiety. This has been a subject of growing interest; however little research has been done into the phenomena’s correlational, ...
Music’s interaction with virtual environments: Emotion and perception
(2021)
The emotional and perceptual impact of music on visuals has been widely researched. This study explored the opposite relationship and was designed to determine if different visual conditions would influence the perception ...