@article {1073,
	title = {SOCIAL INFLUENCE AND DEPENDENCE IN THE FACEBOOK USE BY ROMANIAN AND LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS},
	journal = {Problems of Education in the 21st Century},
	volume = {75},
	year = {2017},
	month = {August/2017},
	pages = {Continuous},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {354-365},
	abstract = {The time spent on Facebook by university students is continuously increasing. This fact is raising many questions as regards the relation between the social networking websites and the university. The educators are challenged to understand the factors that are driving the adoption of social networking websites, the characteristics of the daily use as well as the positive and negative effects on the university work. The social influence has been recognized as one of the factors that are driving the adoption of information systems. On another hand, the excessive use may lead to addiction. The first objective of this research is to explore the correlation between the social influence and the Facebook dependence. A model with these latent variables has been specified and tested on two samples of university students, the first from Romania and the second from Lithuania. The second objective of the research is to comparatively discuss the measures in each country. A multi-group confirmatory factor analysis has been carried on to test the configural and metric invariance. The comparison of means shows that university students reporting higher social influence have a higher risk of Facebook dependence. The comparative analysis revealed that for both variables, the mean values are higher for the Romanian sample.},
	keywords = {e-learning process, Facebook dependence, invariance analysis, social influence},
	issn = {1822-7864},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.33225/pec/17.75.354},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2017/457-1503750787.pdf},
	author = {Vincentas  Lamanauskas and Dragos Daniel Iordache and Costin   Pribeanu}
}
@article {421,
	title = {SOCIAL INFLUENCES ON THE STUDYING OF MATHEMATICS BY BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN LEARNERS},
	journal = {Problems of Education in the 21st Century },
	volume = {23},
	year = {2010},
	month = {July/2010},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {30-40},
	abstract = {This study sought to explore how social factors influence learner{\textquoteright}s Mathematical development. The respondents were selected according to a mixed method approach, where the dominate approach was quantitative method. The study was undertaken in was one science college in East London. Data analysis was with the aid of both descriptive and inferential statistics. Independent variables for this study were grouped into: (i) characteristics of mathematics achievement (MA) and (ii) characteristics of MA members. Results revealed that the social variables significantly predicted learners{\textquoteright} mathematics achievement. These were status of parent, duration of parental ship, parents{\textquoteright} attendance at school meetings. Other significant predictors included financial and material contributions to learners from parents. },
	keywords = {mathematics education, social influence, South Africa},
	issn = {1822-7864},
	url = {https://journals.indexcopernicus.com/search/article?articleId=2594591},
	author = {Anass  Bayaga and Xoliswa  Mtose and Kofi Poku  Quan-Baffour}
}
