OBJECTIVE To investigate associations of self-perceived eating-related peer norms (called 'subjective peer norms') with adolescents' healthy eating intentions and intake of healthy and unhealthy food. DESIGN Cross-sectional data were collected in a large international survey. SETTING Two types of subjective peer norms were assessed: perceived peer encouragement of healthy eating and perceiv...

Although safe firearm storage is a promising injury prevention strategy, many parents do not keep their firearms unloaded and locked up. Using the theory of planned behavior as a guiding conceptual framework, this study examines factors associated with safe storage among married women with children and who have firearms in their homes. Data come from a national telephone survey (n=185). We exam...

BACKGROUND There is limited evidence of the influence of psychosocial factors and health beliefs on public dental patient's patterns of service use in Australia. The research aims were to examine associations between dental attitudes and beliefs of public dental service users and dental visiting intention and behaviour using the Theory of Planned Behaviour. METHODS 517 randomly selected adult...

background: since type-2 diabetes is the most common chronic disease among iranian female adolescents, we applied theory of planned behavior to examine the effect of training to intention to preventative nutritional behaviors for type-2 diabetes among female adolescents.   methods: in this experimental study 200 (11-14 year old) girls from 8 schools of tehran city (100 in each intervention and ...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the Planned Behavior Theory and entrepreneurship education in triggering students' entrepreneurial intentions. This research conducted at Mercu Buana University. respondents were students Faculty Economics Business, with a total sample 250 student respondents. uses quantitative methods. data collection technique used snowball technique. Data processing s...

In today's dynamic world economy, traditional business approaches no longer meet the needs of market survival, growth and profitability, and entrepreneurship is presented to families, institutions, and individuals as a necessity. One of the main concerns is to create productive employment for young people in the country, which requires the necessary platform for entrepreneurship. The favorable ...

Background Given that school-age students, as active road users, are more vulnerable to injury compared with other pedestrians, a large number of them, following an injury, may either fail to go to school at least for a short time or even suffer from disabilities for the rest of their lives. The aim of this study was to determine safe behavior in road crossing using the theory of planned behavi...

The aim of this study was to identify factors affecting HIV risk reduction among 150 Black and 150 White South Africans chosen by systematic random sampling. Main outcome measures included sexual behavior and condom use, knowledge about correct condom use, intention of condom use, behavioural norms, attitudes, normative beliefs, and subjective norms about condoms, HIV/AIDS health beliefs, and H...

The primary purpose of this study is to identify the key predictor of undergraduate students’ intentions to use social networking sites. Technology acceptance model with three main unobserved variables, attitude, perceived behavior control, and subjective norms was employed as research framework. Seven other unobserved variables were added to the research framework. A technology acceptance ques...