Governments advocate for a modal shift from motorized transport modes to active modes. Various political approaches can be adopted affect travel behavior and patterns. However, interventions spread across the entire population offer limited opportunities achieve behavioral change. Furthermore, attitude has been shown cut demographic characteristics strongly influence conducted behavior. Therefo...

Background There is international evidence that people with disabilities face barriers when accessing primary healthcare services and that there is inadequate information about effective interventions that work to improve the lives of people with disabilities, especially in low-income and middle-income countries. Poor rural residents generally experience barriers to accessing primary healthcare...

This study investigates the adoption of mobile services across four different service categories. The adoption model underlying the study includes analysis of the motivational, attitudinal, social and resource-related influences on adopters' intention to use mobile services. Overall, the model explains 62-75 percent of the variance in " intention to use ". Two important findings stand out as ve...

The main objective of this study is to empirically test a fourth-order hierarchical model of experiential value in an online book and CD setting. In addition, we provide empirical evidence for the role of hedonic and utilitarian value components in creating attitudinal and behavioral loyalty. Finally, we develop an online customer typology, based on the underlying value sources. Based on a samp...

Organizations must constantly try to prevent losses resulting from unforeseen events and fraud. Whistleblowing has emerged as the most efficient mechanism for detecting such risks, but this phenomenon not yet been studied in SMEs. This research seeks analyze relationships between attitudinal, normative, control beliefs on whistleblowing of accounting professionals, contrasting behavior small la...

This study offers a phonetic description and phonological analysis of a variety of melodic contours in Brazilian Portuguese. These are commonly referred to as conveying the modal, or illocutionary, functions of intonation, as well as some attitudinal uses. The phonological analysis follows the AM framework and aims at distinguishing what is contrastive and what are merely allophonic variations ...

This study attempts to examine the effects of task characteristics and accountability on audit judgment. We found that when the audit task is less structured, such as in analytical reviews, auditors will manifest an attitudinal shift toward the preference of the agent to whom they are accountable. When the audit task is structured such as in internal control evaluations, an attitudinal shift wi...

• People can desire attitudes that differ in valence from their current attitude. • Actual–desired discrepancies lead people to feel ambivalent. • Discrepancies also reduce prediction of behavior and increase information interest. a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o The experience of attitudinal ambivalence (subjective ambivalence) is important because it predicts key consequences of attitude...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe a complex coaching intervention to help patients with cancer pain explore beliefs and attitudinal barriers interfering with pain management. Patients were coached to explore beliefs about pain, communications about pain management, and the use of analgesics and nonpharmacologic interventions. DATA SOURCES Published journal articles, abstracts, and psychology tex...