•Schwartz (1992) Resultant self-transcendence and resultant conservation influence theory of planned behavior factors.•The theory of planned behavior factors affect tourists’ visiting ...intentions.•Environmental consciousness moderates between Schwartz bipolar dimensions and attitude.•The findings confirm the proposed conceptual framework.
To address research gaps, this study develops a conceptual framework that integrates the personal values of Schwartz (1992) and the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and aims to examine tourists’ visiting intentions towards eco-friendly destinations. The authors collected data from 503 Chinese tourists. The majority of the hypotheses were accepted. The results show that resultant self-transcendence and resultant conservation values have positive relationships with three TPB anchors, i.e. (1) attitude, (2) subjective norms, and (3) perceived behavioral control. Contrarily, the authors found an insignificant relationship between value of resultant conservation and perceived behavioral control. Furthermore, TPB factors exert positive effects on tourists’ visiting intentions. Moreover, environmental consciousness positively moderates relationships between Schwartz personal values and attitude. The findings offer strong theoretical and practical implications.
Research that involves agricultural animal welfare has typically aimed to improve welfare by decreasing disease, distress, and pain. Positive welfare does not necessarily occur with the absence of ...suffering but in combination with opportunities for behaviors or affective states desired by animals. Our objectives were to describe Canadian bovine veterinarians' and veterinary students' attitudes, professional normative values, and perceived ability to promote positive welfare for dairy cows, and to explore participants' provided rationale. With an online cross-sectional survey, Canadian veterinary practitioners (n = 78) and veterinary students (n = 148) were asked, on a 7-point Likert scale, about their attitudes, perceived professional normative values, and perceived ability of veterinarians to promote positive welfare for dairy cows. We used an applied thematic analysis approach within the qualitative description methodology to analyze participants' open-ended text responses. Quantitatively, participants had very favorable attitudes (mean ± SE; 6.3 ± 0.04) and perceived favorable values (5.7 ± 0.06) in the veterinary community toward positive welfare opportunities for dairy cows. Three themes were identified to explain the professional normative values: influences from within the veterinary profession, influences from outside the veterinary profession, and personal views of participants. Participants were confident that veterinarians could suggest positive welfare opportunities for dairy cows (6.1 ± 0.06) but were uncertain that the decision to suggest these opportunities to producers was within a veterinarian's control (4.3 ± 0.11) and were not confident that implementation of positive welfare opportunities was under a veterinarian's control (2.1 ± 0.07). Three themes were identified to explain the barriers to veterinarians promoting positive welfare opportunities for dairy cows: not practical to implement, resistance to change, and concern for the animal. Participants stated that many positive welfare opportunities were impractical or expensive to implement. We conclude that positive attitudes and positive professional values exist in the veterinary community toward positive welfare for dairy cows but that much uncertainty exists regarding a veterinarian's ability to influence change to current practices.
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to develop a comprehensive research model that can explain potential customers’ behavioral intentions to adopt and use smart home services.
...Design/methodology/approach
This study proposes and validates a new theoretical model that extends the theory of planned behavior. Partial least squares analysis is employed to test the research model and corresponding hypotheses on data collected from 216 survey samples.
Findings
Mobility, security/privacy risk, and trust in the service provider are important factors affecting the adoption of smart home services.
Practical implications
To increase potential users’ adoption rate, service providers should focus on developing mobility-related services that enable people to access smart home services while on the move using mobile devices via control and monitoring functions.
Originality/value
This study is the first empirical attempt to examine user acceptance of smart home services, as most of the prior literature has concerned technical features.
The trans-contextual model outlines the processes by which autonomous motivation toward activities in a physical education context predicts autonomous motivation toward physical activity outside of ...school, and beliefs about, intentions toward, and actual engagement in, out-of-school physical activity. In the present article, we clarify the fundamental propositions of the model and resolve some outstanding conceptual issues, including its generalizability across multiple educational domains, criteria for its rejection or failed replication, the role of belief-based antecedents of intentions, and the causal ordering of its constructs. We also evaluate the consistency of model relationships in previous tests of the model using path-analytic meta-analysis. The analysis supported model hypotheses but identified substantial heterogeneity in the hypothesized relationships across studies unattributed to sampling and measurement error. Based on our meta-analysis, future research needs to provide further replications of the model in diverse educational settings beyond physical education and test model hypotheses using experimental methods.
Over the past decade, the markets for mobile and wireless services have been among the world's fastest-growing, especially in Asian countries, presenting financial institutions with significant ...opportunities to offer value-added services. Mobile banking has since emerged as a new channel enabling the banks to react strategically to changes in competitive forces and to enhance customer convenience.
Based on Diffusion of Innovations (DOI) theory, the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), the Decomposed Theory of Planned Behavior (DTPB) model, this study develops an integrated model to provide a fuller understanding of factors facilitating or impeding the adoption of mobile banking, focusing on consumers in Taiwan and Vietnam. While subjective norms had a significant effect on the intention to adopt, three attributes of mobile banking (compatibility, perceived usefulness, and perceived risk) were found to have indirect effects on intention to adopt mobile banking through attitude toward adoption for consumers in both Taiwan and Vietnam. Intention to adopt mobile banking was indirectly influenced by self-efficacy and facilitating conditions, and directly affected by perceived behavioral control in both nations. Some differences in intention to adopt mobile banking between Taiwanese and Vietnamese are also discussed. Based on the research findings, managerial implications for financial institutions and mobile service providers are discussed.
•Mobile banking has not well adopted in consumer markets.•An integrated model was applied to mobile banking adoption in Taiwan and Vietnam.•The theory of innovation diffusion is sustained except the perceived ease of use.•The theory of perceived behavioral control is sustained except the subjective norms.•Differences between the two nations are in trialability and innovativeness.
Agricultural non-point source (NPS) pollution in water source protection areas poses serious challenges for governments in developing countries. It is important to consider the environmental behavior ...of farmers when exploring the causes of NPS pollution as well as when establishing scientific controls and management measures. However, the poor understanding of factors influencing the environmental behavior of farmers and the lack of a suitable environmental socio-psychological model limit the application of the environmental behavior of farmers in NPS pollution management. In this study, we therefore integrated the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and the protection motivation theory (PMT) to identify the main determinants of the NPS pollution-related environmental behavior and intention of farmers in the Water Source Area of the Middle Route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project in China. Results indicated that the integrated model provided a better understanding of the environmental behavior and intention of farmers than that provided by each component when used individually, and revealed that farmers perceived that the susceptibility and severity of threats caused by water deterioration influenced environmental intention through the mediating effects of subjective norm and attitude toward adopting pro-environmental behavior. At the same time, the perceived vulnerability of farmers was relatively high and their perceived severity was relatively low. Furthermore, the subjective norm, attitude, self-efficacy (i.e., the perceived behavioral control), and response efficacy positively and significantly influenced intention. However, response cost had a significantly negative effect on intention. Among them, subjective norm had the largest effect on intention. Intention was the key determinant for the actual environmental behavior of farmers, while self-efficacy also had a significantly positive effect on behavior. Managing and controlling agricultural NPS pollution requires a multi-disciplinary and comprehensive approach. Therefore, an integrated theoretical framework was developed in this study by integrating TPB and PMT to gain insight into the environmental behaviors and intention of farmers. The results provided a theoretical basis for NPS pollution control.
•Integrated TPB and PMT to study farmers' environmental behavior.•Subjective norm had the greatest effect on farmers' environmental intention.•Attitude and subjective norm mediate the effects of threat appraisal on intention.•Pro-environmental behavior should be facilitated through comprehensive measures.
The use of chemical pesticides in agriculture has damaged agricultural land, fisheries, fauna, and flora. Furthermore, increased mortality and morbidity of humans due to the unsafe use of chemical ...pesticides are the most prevalent and serious occupational hazards faced by farmers. The present study aimed to examine farmers’ intention to use green pesticides using two models – the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and the health belief model (HBM) – as the research framework (moral norms and self-identity were used on the TPB framework as additional constructs). The population was composed of farmers in the provinces of Kermanshah, Lorestan, and Hamedan in Western Iran of whom 480 farmers were sampled using the stratified random sampling method. The research instrument was a questionnaire. Structural equation modelling was used for data analysis. Results showed that in TPB, the constructs of moral norms, attitude, and self-identity accounted for 52.2 percent of the variance in the intention to use green pesticides. According to HBM, perceived benefits, perceived susceptibility, cues to action, and motivation could capture 61.2 percent of the variance in the intention. It was revealed that both theories could potentially predict intention, but HBM outperformed TPB in this sense. It is recommended to hold local and regional meetings for knowledge and technology sharing, develop infrastructure for production and distribution of inputs, emphasize the role of green pest management in the safety of agricultural crop producers and consumers through mass media, and farms with follow-up training programs.
•Moral norms, attitude, and self-identity had significant effects on the farmers' intention to use green pesticides, in TPB.•Perceived benefits, susceptibility, cues to action, and motivation had significant effects on the farmers' intention, in HBM.•Both theories could potentially predict intention, but HBM outperformed TPB in this sense.
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to explain the factors that affect the green buying behaviours and the relations between these factors. For this purpose, three main factors were added to the ...Ajzen’s theory of planned behaviour (TPB) to develop a more comprehensive model, namely, environmental concern, environmental knowledge and perceived consumer effectiveness (PCE). It is believed that these variables could help understanding the green buying behaviour and extending the TPB model.
Design/methodology/approach
In this study, quantitative research has been made to test the relations in the proposed model. The target population in this research is individuals living in Turkey, both sexes of age over 18 years. The data were collected through an online survey between May and August of 2017. The data were statistically analysed with structural equation modelling and interpreted using the statistical software AMOS version 20.0.
Findings
The findings show that PCE is the variable that has the highest influence on the attitudes towards behaviour, intentions and green buying behaviour in the proposed model. It is possible to say that the PCE variable added to the model is an important variable that improved and strengthened the measurement model. Variables added to the model are compatible with Ajzen’s original model.
Research limitations/implications
The obtained data may not be generalised throughout Turkey. However, it is believed that the data obtained can give a general idea for green buying behaviour of individuals in Turkey.
Practical implications
The obtained data provide a contribution to the marketing communication experts and the literature. Research findings contribute to explaining green consumption behaviours in developing countries.
Originality/value
In this research, the gap between consumers’ attitudes and their behaviours has been researched. Understanding the reason for this gap is essential to increase green consumption in developing countries. The number of studies in this field in Turkey is not very much. For this reason, this study is thought to contribute to the field.
Social media is an increasingly important yet understudied context for eating behaviors in general and veganism in particular. In four studies, we first explored and described the information ...environment the platform Instagram presents related to veganism. Second, we examined how engaging with this environment is associated with offline eating intentions via psychological mechanisms. We scraped datasets of Instagram posts tagged with #vegan (44,316 posts in total) and employed network analysis with their hashtags (Study 1), as well as clustering with images and sentiment analysis with texts (Study 2). Studies 3 (N = 117) and 4 (N = 251) used online surveys to investigate associations between different forms of engaging with social media content, psychological constructs, and offline eating intentions. Posts about veganism were frequently related to food, health and fitness, cosmetics, and photography. Images most often depicted food (34.7%), non-food products (30.4%), people (7.9%), and animals (2.0%). The sentiment of most posts was positive. Being exposed to Instagram content about veganism was more strongly and consistently associated with eating intentions than active forms of engagement. Attitude and self-identity emerged as the most relevant mechanisms for these effects. Food is the most prominent yet not sole topic among posts about veganism on Instagram, and hashtags used in this context partially relate to motives for following a vegan diet. Exposure to this information environment might influence offline eating decisions via psychological mechanisms. With growing usage and its potential influence, social media should receive increasing attention in (health) psychological research and practice.
•This study combines subjective experience with observable social media data.•Social media influences offline eating intentions via psychological mechanisms.•Attitude and self-identity appear to be the most relevant of these mechanisms.•Exposure to content shows a higher behavioral relevance than active engagement.•Posts show mostly positive sentiment and topics go beyond those found in surveys.
This editorial gives a brief introduction to the articles included in the thematic section of Europe's Journal of Psychology, which is devoted to selected recent advances and applications of the ...theory of planned behavior (TPB). The five contributions address two thematic streams: (1) adjustments and extensions of the original theory and (2) applications of the TPB in public health and the political sciences.
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