Konformitet ses som att människor anpassar sitt beteende utifrån andra och betraktas ofta som något negativt i västerlänska samhällen. Syftet med undersökningen var att framhäva om konformitet gynnade människor när andra ansågs bidra med nyttig information, konstruera ett mätinstrument för normativ och informativ social influens samt undersöka samband mellan personlighetsindexar och konformitet. En enkätstudie genomfördes med totalt 83 deltagare från en högskola i Mellansverige. Deltagarna delades in i två grupper, där konformitetsgruppen fick, tillskillnad från kontrollgruppen, en procentsats vid varje kunskapsfråga. Resultaten visade att konformitet förekom och att det gynnade sig att följa strömmen vid lätta och medelsvåra kunskapsfrågor. Ytterligare förekom det inga samband mellan personlighetsindexarna och konformitet. Slutsatsen var att människor inte borde se konformitet som något negativt, utan bör ibland ta del av det majoriteten har att erbjuda i vardagliga situationer. Förhoppningsvis kommer det konstruerade mätinstrumentet användas i framtida forskningar.

Software piracy, the illegal and unauthorized duplication, sale, or distribution of software, is a widespread and costly phenomenon. According to the Business Software Alliance, more than one third of the PC software packages installed worldwide in 2006 were unauthorized copies. This behavior costs the software industry billions of lost dollars in revenue annually. Software piracy behavior has been investigated for more than thirty years. However, there are two voids in the literature: lack of studies in Non-Western countries and scarcity of process studies. As such, this study contributes to the literature by developing a software piracy model to understand the decision making process that underlies this illegal behavior among Jordanian university students. Based on a literature review in various disciplines, including social psychology, psychology, and criminology, several important variables have been incorporated into the proposed model. The model was tested using data collected from a sample of 323 undergraduate business students. The resulting data was analyzed by two main statistical techniques, structural equation modeling (SEM) and hierarchical multiple regression. The results indicated that the model was useful in predicting students' intention to pirate software. Seven out of eight hypotheses were supported. Consistent with The Theory of Reasoned Action, attitudes toward software piracy and subjective norms were significant predictors of intention to pirate software. However, our findings are inconsistent with previous studies with regard to the relative importance of attitude and subjective norms; subjective norms had a stronger effect. Also, the results suggested that ethical ideology, public self-consciousness, and low self-control moderated the effect of these variables on intention to pirate software. Lastly, the results indicated that the effect of subjective norms on afintention to pirate software was both direct and indirect through attitudes. The results have important practical implications for the software industry and governments to curtail software piracy. Limitations of the study and recommendations for future studies are discussed as well.

Syftet med den här undersökningen är att ta reda om det finns ett samband i relationen mellan social ångest och publik självmedvetenhet och hur denna relation skiljer sig mellan ålder samt kön. Med hjälp av vår enkät som innehöll två mätinstrument som dels mäter social ångest; Social Interaction Anxiety Scale (Mattick & Clarke, 1998), och som mäter självmedvetenhet; Self-Consciousness Scale (Scheier & Carver, 2013), fick vi 319 deltagare där 232 var kvinnor, 94 var män och 2 var icke-binära. Det vi kunde se var att det fanns en relation mellan social ångest och publik självmedvetenhet, och även att yngre åldrar (18–30) kan förutse publik självmedvetenhet tillsammans med social ångest. Det är även tydligt att kvinnor rapporterar mer social ångest än män, men enligt analyserna finns det ingen skillnad mellan kvinnor och män i rapporterad publik självmedvetenhet. Med hjälp av våra analyser hoppas vi väcka större intresse för sambandet mellan publik självmedvetenhet och social ångest, och hur det skiljer sig mellan olika åldrar och kön. / The purpose of this study is to find out whether there is a connection between public self-consciousness and social anxiety, and how this connection differs in different ages and between the sexes. By our questionnaire using two measures that 1; measures social anxiety; Social Interaction Anxiety Scale (Mattick & Clarke, 1998) and 2; measures self-consciousness; Self-Consciousness Scale (Scheier & Carver, 2013), we got 319 participants of which 232 were women, 94 were men and 2 were non-binary. What we could see from the research was that there is a relationship between social anxiety and public self-consciousness, and that younger adults (18-30) can predict public self-consciousness along with social anxiety. It is also clear that women report higher levels of social anxiety, but according to the research there is no difference between women and men in reported public self-consciousness. With the help of our research, we hopefully contribute to answering the question of why these feelings arise in people, or arouse interest in the relationship between social anxiety and public self- consciousness and how it differs between different ages and sexes.

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