Predicting and Changing Behavior: The Reasoned Action Approach

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Taylor & Francis, 2011 M02 14 - 538 pages

This book describes the reasoned action approach, an integrative framework for the prediction and change of human social behavior. It provides an up-to-date review of relevant research, discusses critical issues related to the reasoned action framework, and provides methodological and conceptual tools for the prediction and explanation of social behavior and for designing behavior change interventions.

 

Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
1
Chapter 2 Defining and Predicting Behavior
29
Chapter 3 Attitudes and Their Determinants
75
Chapter 4 Perceived Norms and Their Determinants
129
Chapter 5 Perceived Behavioral Control and Its Determinants
153
Chapter 6 Attitudes Norms and Control as Predictors of Intentions and Behavior
179
Chapter 7 Background Factors and Origins of Beliefs
221
Chapter 8 General Attitudes and the Prediction of Behavior
255
Theoretical Considerations
321
Sample Interventions
369
Chapter 12 Conclusion
397
References
411
Constructing a Reasoned Action Questionnaire
449
Subject Index
465
Author Index
509
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Chapter 9 Challenges to the Reasoned Action Approach
281

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