Ajzen’s (1985) Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) was referred to as the architecture by this study, using SEM to construct the behavioral tendency causal model for university students participating in in-line hockey. The university students participating in in-line hockey were taken as the research subjects and Ajzen’s (1985) Theory of Planned Behavior was used as the reference. In addition, the...

We present a preference foundation for Chance Theory (CT), a model of decision making under uncertainty where the evaluation of an act depends distinctively on its lowest outcome. This outcome is evaluated with the riskless value function  and the potential increments over it are evaluated by subjective expected utility with a risky utility function . In contrast to earlier approaches with mo...

This survey of attitude theory and research published between 1996 and 1999 covers the conceptualization of attitude, attitude formation and activation, attitude structure and function, and the attitude-behavior relation. Research regarding the expectancy-value model of attitude is considered, as are the roles of accessible beliefs and affective versus cognitive processes in the formation of at...

Attitudes guide behavior. The socialcognitive approach to decision-making has been building on this assumption for almost a century (Allport, 1935). In this field, the model of reasoned action (Fishbein and Ajzen, 1974) was probably the most influential advance in describing the relation between attitudes and behavior. Accordingly, attitudes are the key predictor of behavioral intentions. They ...

Title of Dissertation: REVISITING THE ROLE OF DELINQUENT ATTITUDES ON CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR Kyle J. Thomas, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Dissertation Directed By: Associate Professor, Jean McGloin, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice By employing global attitude measures, which ask respondents to evaluate the abstract idea of a behavior absent of context, rather than specific measures that...

Design: Cross-sectional. Objective: Aim 1 was to preliminarily explore the contributions of the following factors to adherence to LBP practice guidelines using regression modeling: 1) the credential qualification of Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy (MDT); 2) balance of biomedical and behavioral (i.e. biopsychosocial) oriented approach for low back pain (LBP); 3) demographics; 4) academic degree...

Many multichannel retailers are now offering customers the option to place their orders online and then pick them up from the retailers’ physical stores. As a relatively new type of multichannel retail service, the factors that influence consumers to use “online order/in-store pickup” (OOIP) remains largely unknown. This study uses the Behavioral Reasoning Theory to examine the factors that inf...

We evaluated if the theory of planned behavior explains students activity in a web-based learning environment. Two of the considerations of the theory, attitude toward the behavior (behavioral beliefs and outcome evaluations) and perceived behavioral control (computer selfefficacy), were evaluated. The scope was also widened to students approaches to learning and anxiety in computer using situa...

While on-line shopping is considered as a special type of e-service, the adoption rate of this service in Taiwan has been paid attention recently. The initial adoption of on-line shopping is the important driving force to further influence the use and continued use of this service. The model of Trust and technology acceptance model (TAM) in Gefen et al. [1] has been well studied in on-line shop...

This study developed a model that examined the relationship between undergraduate students' beliefs, norms and pro-environment behavioral intentions in the context of global climate change (GCC). The model was further evaluated to determine whether latent variables, such as sustainability value, environmental concern, social norms, perceived risk, pro-environmental attitude, as defined by the t...