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Showing 1 to 20 of 101 for “"Perceived Behavioral Control"”.
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Attitudes and Perceived Behavioral Control of First-Year College Student's Alcohol Use: A Study of an Instructional Software Intervention
… women in regard to their attitude and personal control from pre-test to post-test. Greek students had a more favorable attitude toward alcohol and less personal control of alcohol than non-Greeks at pre-test and post-test and poorer intention at post-test. Greek students did not improve …
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Breaking the Muscular Mold: The Application of Homophily, Credibility, and Physical Attractiveness within Attitude and Perceived Behavioral Control towards Weight Lifting
… people are more likely to be hired, get a raise, perceived positively, and/or live happily within certain professions. Extant work has shown this trend is not generalizable across all fields. For example, scientists who are viewed as relatively unattractive and unsociable are perceived as …
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An investigation of perceived behavioral control (PBC), and environmentally responsible behavior (ERB): a case study of occupants in a high performing building
… Previous studies suggest that if ERB and Perceived Behavioral Control (PBC) are positively correlated, indicating that the rate of ERB will be higher by building occupants in high performing buildings. This study focuses on the relation between ERB and PBC in regard to thermal conditions. …
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Video Technology and the Subjective Norm, Perceived Behavioral Control, and Attitudes Toward Physical Activity of Middle School Students: Does P.E.TV make a difference?
… middle school students' subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, and attitudes toward physical activity. Four intact 8th grade physical education/health classes were selected for the study. The students were randomly assigned to the classes by school administrators at the beginning …
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“The Impact of Attitudes, Subjective Norms and Perceived Behavioral Control on Whistleblowing Intention in Pakistani Banks: The Indirect Effects of Organisational Cynicism and Religiosity”
… the impacts of attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control on whistleblowing intention in bankers living in Pakistan. The purpose of the study was also to assess whether organisational cynicism plays a crucial role as a mediator and whether religiosity plays a role as a …
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Attitude, Subjective Norm, and Perceived Behavioral Control as Indicators for Nurse Educators’ Intention to Use Critical Thinking Teaching Strategies: a Structural Equation Model Analysis
… characteristics, attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control in a hypothesized model that may influence nurse educators’ intention to use instructional methods that promote critical thinking in this study referred to as evidence-based critical thinking (EBCT) teaching strategies …
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An Examination of Dimensions of Perceived Behavioral Control Regarding Genetic Counseling and Testing for BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 in African-American Women at Moderate to High-Risk for Breast Cancer
… services would be an important part of cancer control for this group but in this fast moving area of medicine African-American women are being "left behind". It is unclear why AAW have not readily adopted these preventive services. In light of the paucity of evidence regarding explanations of …
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Identifying Determinants of Physical Activity in Maritime Union Members Using the Theory of Planned Behavior
… to predict how attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, and intention are associated with physical activity in longshoremen from the Hampton Roads Shipping Association-International Longshoreman's Association (HRSA-ILA). The study was conducted in two phases. In the first …
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Beliefs about Complementary and Alternative Medicine in HIV-infected Black Women Using the Theory of Planned Behavior
… Black women’s attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control are related to intention of dietary supplements and spiritual practices use in their HIV treatment.</p> <p><strong>Method.</strong> In phase one, Grounded Theory methods (N= 29) were used to explore salient beliefs …
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Factors affecting the entrepreneurial intentions of students at Lilongwe technical college.
… between entrepreneurial intention, attitude, perceived subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control amongst students at Lilongwe Technical College in Malawi. The study was based on a sample of 130 students and findings revealed that students’ attitude, subjective norms and perceived …
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Factors affecting the entrepreneurial intentions of students at Lilongwe technical college.
… between entrepreneurial intention, attitude, perceived subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control amongst students at Lilongwe Technical College in Malawi. The study was based on a sample of 130 students and findings revealed that students’ attitude, subjective norms and perceived …
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Hodgkin's Lymphoma survivors' intentions to follow survivorship care plans
… of this study was to determine the attitudes, perceived subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control that Hodgkin's Lymphoma (HL) survivors had towards survivorship care plans (SCPs) and how those factors impact their intentions to follow a care plan. Participants were HL survivors who …
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Applicability of the Theory of Planned Behavior to explain clinicians’ intention to screen men who have sex with men for syphilis infection
… populations remains an important prevention and control measure. Research consistently demonstrates the relative advantage of greater testing frequency in at-risk populations such as men who have sex with men (MSM) using both cost-effectiveness analyses and mathematical modeling. Despite this, …
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College Students' HPV Knowledge and Intention to be HPV Vaccinated
… HPV knowledge, attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control towards the vaccination. A descriptive, correlational, cross-sectioned research design was employed. Two hundred and eight (208) male college students at a mid-sized public university participated in the study and …
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Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Predict International Students' Help-Seeking Intentions and Behaviors
… counseling services, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control. A total of 132 international students completed a cross-sectional online survey. Contrary to TPB, the results indicated that attitudes toward help-seeking and subjective norms were not correlated with help-seeking …
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Norms, attitudes, perceptions, and intentions for benzodiazepine prescription drug abuse among adolescents
… (TPB) regarding the prediction of adolescents’ behavioral intentions for benzodiazepine abuse. Subjective norms, perceived harm, and perceived behavioral control were measured to predict intentions to abuse such drugs. Similar measures for alcohol and marijuana also were assessed for comparison …
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Predicting Intention to Wean from the Bottle Among Hispanic Mothers
… was regressed on attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control for the total sample, and for each of the four subject groups. Each core TpB construct was regressed on the appropriate composite variables for the total sample, then for each of the four language-experience groups.</p> …
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Entrepreneurship education in fashion study programs: The instructor's perspective
… (TPB), explored the impacts of universities' perceived confirmation regarding EE on instructors' attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and their intention to include EE into their fashion studies course(s). A survey was distributed to a purposive sample of instructors to …
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Understanding family violence assessment practices of pediatric emergency department nurses and physicians
… TPB constructs of attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, and intention to perform routine family violence assessment were explored, as well as self-reported assessment behaviors. Multiple regression analyses were performed to explore the predictive power of TPB constructs and …
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The Role of Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Organizational Justice on Intention to Cyberloaf through a General Deterrence Theory Lens
… characteristics, work stressors, locus of control (Blanchard & Henle, 2008; Henle & Blanchard, 2008; Liberman, Seidman, McKenna, & Buffardi, 2011), this research adopted attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, and organizational citizenship behavior to predict the intention …
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