OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to examine associations between intention to smoke, and 3 constructs of the Theory of Planed Behavior, including attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control related to smoking among adolescents in South Korea. METHODS We used a cross-sectional correlational design. The survey was conducted on 13- to 15-year-old adolescents (N = 740) in ...

This paper examines human motivations underlying individual acceptance of business-to-consumer (B2C) electronic commerce services. Such acceptance is the key to the survival of firms in this intensely competitive industry. A modified theory of planned behavior (TPB) is used to hypothesize a model of e-commerce service acceptance, which is then tested using a field survey of 172 e-brokerage user...

This study examined the direct and indirect associations of general and smoking-specific parenting practices with Chinese adolescents' smoking behaviors. Adolescents aged 14-17 years (N = 658) and their parents were recruited from three high schools in mainland China. Adolescents completed an anonymous online survey on their smoking behaviors, perceptions of parenting behaviors, and smoking-rel...

The purpose of this study is to compare the difference of attitude, subjective norm and intention toward using the statistical software between two groups. There are two groups under a natural experimental setting. The experimental group is learning to use the statistical software in a course of software application. The control group is learning to apply the statistical software for analyzing ...

This study empirically investigated the influence of technology acceptance model factors, social influence factors and demographic factors on instant messaging adoption in the workplace. The research model addresses the need articulated by researchers to include social influence factors in the study of new technology adoption. An interesting finding is that in a factor analysis of the data, sub...

The purpose of this research is to investigate whether the relative influences of attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control on consumers’ purchase intentions will be different when consumers possess different levels of product knowledge (subjective and objective) and attention to social comparison information (ATSCI). As proposed by the theory of planned behavior, consumers’ p...

BACKGROUND Many healthcare organizations have implemented adverse event reporting systems in the hope of learning from experience to prevent adverse events and medical errors. However, a number of these applications have failed or not been implemented as predicted. OBJECTIVE This study presents an extended technology acceptance model that integrates variables connoting trust and management su...

The present study sought to test the efficacy of a brief theory-based intervention to promote regular consumption of breakfast, and to expand previous results suggesting that the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) can be meaningfully applied to breakfast consumption. A four-armed randomised controlled trial was conducted. Participants (n=349) were allocated to receive either a (1) positively fra...

0747-5632/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.chb.2008.08.007 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +82 11 2 3408 3980; E-mail addresses: [email protected] (S. Lee), bg The extent of intranet implementation and use within individual organizations has significant implications for organizational performance. Previous studies on technology adoption in the workplace suggest that accept...

This study investigated how and why Chinese adolescents choose between playing online games and doing homework, using the model of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) in which the subjective norm was manipulated as two sub-elements (peer support and parental monitoring). A total of 530 students from an elementary school and a middle school in China were asked to complete the measures assessing...