We were guided by the Protection Motivation Theory to test the motivational interviewing effects on attitude and intention of obese and overweight women to do regular physical activity. In a randomized controlled trial, we selected using convenience sampling 60 overweight and obese women attending health centres. The women were allocated to 2 groups of 30 receiving a standard weight-control pro...

While existing literature has explored how hazard experience, salience, and demographics characteristics shape threat appraisal adjustment intentions, this study expands on past studies by exploring additional factors such as qualitative of the hazard, political ideology, oil entanglements appraisals, coping intentions in response to a techna hazard. This builds protection motivation theory (PM...

Invasive forest plants are a growing concern because of their perceived and actual negative ecological, economic, social impacts. To effectively manage invasive in ecosystems, it is paramount to understand the management decisions made by family owners (FFOs), who collectively own 36% forestlands United States. We contribute literature on plant factors that influence FFOs' likelihood property i...