Modelling Social Cognitive Theory to Explain Software Piracy Intention
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This study found evidence for a viable social cognitive model of software piracy intention using path analysis. Compared to outcome expectations, moral disengagement emerged as the stronger significant mediator in the model exerting its influence on the relationships between past behaviour and future intention and between past behaviour and outcome expectations. This study found weak evidence for the mediating influence of facilitators and impediments while their impact as a moderating variable was inconclusive.
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