Background: Smoking among youths is a main public health concern, and detecting predictors of smoking is essential for designing preventive programs. Any interventional program should plan with highlighting on behavioral change models and based on operative interventional program. So, this study aimed to investigate school-based smoking prevention programs for middle school students in Nowshahr...

results: the finding revealed that intention of family physicians to reduce referral rate of patients to specialists was significantly related to two theory-based variables of subjective norms (r = 0.38, p < 0.001) and perceived behavioral control (r = 0.43, p < 0.001), and not to attitudes. a stepwise regression entering direct measures of the theory variables explained 35% of the variance on ...

Introduction: Nowadays, use of virtual socail networks is increasing . However, few studies have been conducted&nbsp; about&nbsp; factors influencing the use of social networks by using theories of health education&nbsp; among students.&nbsp; The present study was to determine predictive factors of virtual social networks among students of Yazd university of medical sciences based on the constr...

current research examines the impact of perceived justice (including distributive justice, procedural justice and interactional justice) on perceived service quality and customer behavioral intentions (including word of mouth, trust and revisit intention).statistical sample comprises 120 customers of iran insurance company in shiraz holding automobile insurance and have record of visiting the c...

To reduce carbon emissions resulted from tourism industry, low-carbon tourism is advocated and has become an important tourism policy in many countries. Previously, studies concerned about low-carbon tourism were focused on how to plan and design low-carbon tourism activities and itinerary products. However, little research was paid attention to the low-carbon tourism behavior of tourists and t...

This study is the first empirical research that compares three well known technology adoption models in the in the field of e-banking. It aims to determine the dominant factor(s) which influence the user intention to use Internet banking. Three models (TAM, TPB and TRA) were used to test the impact of five factors (perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, attitude, subjective norms and perc...

OBJECTIVE There is considerable hope that genetic susceptibility testing will motivate behavior that can prevent or reduce the risk of complex conditions such as obesity. This study examined potential behavioral consequences of such testing. METHODS Participants (n = 249) were randomly assigned to review one of four vignettes that asked them to imagine that they had been tested for their risk...

BACKGROUND Exploration of the degree to which perceived chronic stress is heritable is important as these self-reports have been linked to stress-related health outcomes. The aims of this study were to estimate whether perceived stress is a heritable condition and to assess whether heritability estimates vary between subjective stress reactivity and stress related to external demands. METHOD ...

The main motivation of this research is how the issue of volitional control might affect the application of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to research decisions related to information ethics. Specifically, a TPBbased model provides the best fit to the sample collected for the present study. In this model, the contribution of both the attitude and perceived behavioral control to the intent...