BACKGROUND Obesity and over weight is one of the causes of threatening children's present and future life. One of the factors that cause this problem is parents' attitude toward preschool children's nutritional patterns. Education can improve the parents' attitude and prevents from this big issue. This study aimed to assess changes in mother's attitude and behavioral intention using intention m...

extended abstract 1-introduction in recent years, the criminological community has witnessed a resurgence of interest in strain theory. “traditional strain theory (1955, 1960, 1970) posits that individuals are pressured into crime when they are prevented from achieving cultural goals like monetary success or middleclass status through legitimate means. this goal blockage may pressure some to pu...

in this study, attempts are made to recognize effective factors in enhancing the intension to use online stock trading application by real investors via combining the models of reasoned action and decomposed theory of planned behavior and merging it with dimensions of online stock trading. questionnaires designed and ditributed between 300 people attended in tehran stock exchange and agah broke...

background : the importance of consuming fruits and vegetables (f&v;) in prevention of chronic diseases is known. childhood play an important role in formation of healthy eating habits. the purpose of this study was to examine the effect of education, with application of the theory of planned behavior, on improvement of f&v; consumption. methods : in this quasi-experimental study, 184 fourth, f...

Background Malnutrition is an important factor affecting hypertensive incidence. Since the unhealthiest nutritional behaviors are rooted in childhood attitudes and experiences, applying educational interventions to these age groups will be most useful in the formation of preventive nutritional behaviors. Objective To determine the predictive power of the TPB on hypertension in junior high-sch...

Drawing on the compatibility principle in attitude theory, we propose that overall job attitude (job satisfaction and organizational commitment) provides increasingly powerful prediction of more integrative behavioral criteria (focal performance, contextual performance, lateness, absence, and turnover combined). The principle was sustained by a combination of meta-analysis and structural equati...

BACKGROUND The existing studies have indicated that persons with positive attitude and believe to narcotics have more addiction than those with negative or natural attitudes. The aim of the present study was to specify the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral training on increasing of self-concept's measure, and the attitude style toward narcotic drugs in addicted prisoners of Tonekabon. OBJ...

Differences with regard to the effectiveness of health information and attitude change are suggested between people with direct, behavioral experiences with a health topic and people with indirect, nonbehavioral experiences. The effects of three different methods of health education about epilepsy, frequently used in health education practice, are assessed in a pretest posttest design with cont...