Can 'Openness-to-change' and 'Conservation' Values Predict the Diffusion of the Internet into European Homes?
This study investigated whether openness-to-change values (self-direction and stimulation) and conservation values (security and tradition) could predict the diffusion of the internet into homes by 2014, at the level of 159 European regions. All four value scales were correlated with the diffusion o...
| Publicado en: | Comparative Sociology Vol. 18; no. 5/6; pp. 735 - 757 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
Dec2019
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