OBJECTIVE With the advent of personal health records and other patient-focused health technologies, there is a growing need to better understand factors that contribute to acceptance and use of such innovations. In this study, we employed the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology as the basis for determining what predicts patients' acceptance (measured by behavioral intention) and ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine and predict users’ information-seeking intention regarding academic digital library services, using the theory of reasoned action (TRA) and the theory of planned behavior (TPB). Design/methodology/approach – Data are collected from 224 Taiwanese undergraduate and graduate students to assess the influence of attitude, subjective norm, and perceiv...

OBJECTIVE Excess alcohol consumption extorts significant social and economic costs that are increasing despite the presence of mandatory warning labels on packaged alcoholic beverages. We used a novel approach by adding a brief statement based on self-affirmation theory to alcohol warning labels. METHOD In two studies (N = 85 and N = 58), we randomized regular wine drinkers recruited from uni...

The purpose of the present study was to verify the motivational factors underlying the theory of planned behavior (TPB) predicting the driving behavior of lifetime driving license revoked offenders. Of a total of 639 drivers whose licenses had been permanently revoked, 544 offenders completed a questionnaire constructed to measure attitudes toward behaviors, subjective norms, perceived behavior...

The theory of planned behavior (TPB) has been used extensively to predict a wide range of behavior and behavioral intention, but little of this research has been in the vocational realm. We advance on existing knowledge by testing the capacity an extended version of TPB to explain intentions to work for the UK’s National Health Service as a nurse, physiotherapist or radiographer amongst three g...