scholarly journals Waste Separation Intention of China’s Urban Residents and its Influencing Factors

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Situational Factors ◽  
Household Waste ◽  
Ecological Environment ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Urban Household ◽  
Waste Separation

<p>Urban household waste causes serious pollution of the urban ecological environment. Waste separation and processing is an effective approach to reduce the ecological environment damage caused by household waste. From the perspective of the source of urban household waste separation, this paper investigates the influencing factors of the willingness of urban residents to separate household waste based on the theory of planned behavior. Through regression analysis, it was found that: Firstly, waste separation attitude, waste separation cognition, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, and situational factors have significant positive impacts on the willingness of urban residents to separate waste, and the degrees of these impacts show a decreasing order; Secondly, the willingness to separate waste has a significant positive impact on the implementation of urban residents’ actions to separate waste.</p>

scholarly journals Factors influencing on residents’ household waste separation behavioral intention: Evidence from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-135
Author(s):  
Tran Pham Khanh Toan
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Intention ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Household Waste ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Pilot Programs ◽  
Control Knowledge ◽  
Waste Separation

Household solid waste has become a serious problem in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam over the last 10 years, resulting in significant side effects on the environment. Although various programs of waste separation at source have been deployed, they have stopped at the level of the pilot - programs and have generally not been replicable. Based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB), this study was examined the key factors influencing waste separation behavioral intention of residents in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam’s economic center. By using SPSS 20.0 software for the sample size of 487 residents, the regression models are used to process and explain data. The research detects six factors, namely Attitude towards waste separation; Social norms; Perceived behavioral control; Knowledge about waste separation; Laws and regulations; Propaganda that significantly directly affected residents ‘behavioral intention, Knowledge about waste separation being the strongest construct significantly to predict individuals’ intention. Of the six above-listed constructs, only Perceived behavioral control had a negative impact on residents’ waste separation behavioral intention. The findings from this research may help policy-makers have a better understanding of residents’ waste separation behavioral intention.

scholarly journals Analysis of Influencing Factors of College Students’ Intention to Repeated Blood Donation Based on Structural Equation Modeling

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lingling Pan ◽  
Wei Hu ◽  
Wenjuan Han ◽  
Yingying Wang
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Blood Donation ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Behavior Intention ◽  
Donation Behavior

AbstractTo research the influencing factors of college students' blood donation behavior intention and propose intervention strategies to improve the repeated blood donation rate of college students. Questionnaire survey was used to research and analyze the influencing factors of behavior intention. Amos 21.0 software was used to establish structural equation modeling and perform confirmatory factor analysis. SPSS 20.0 was used for statistic. The model was proved with highly adaptability, with χ2/df = 2.956 < 3. Factors influencing college students' intention of repeat blood donation behavior can be summarized into four: attitude, external motivation, advice-taking, and perceived behavioral control. Among them, attitude and perceived behavioral control have a great direct impact on behavioral intention, while the external motivation and recommendation acceptance have an indirect impact by influencing the other two factors. In view of those evaluation items with high path coefficient in each factor, we can develop recruitment strategies to influence college students’ repeated blood donation behavior and provide scientific suggestions for improving their repeated blood donation rate.

Using the theory of planned behavior to understand the students’ pro-environmental behavior: a case-study in a Portuguese HEI

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabete Correia ◽  
Sara Sousa ◽  
Clara Viseu ◽  
Joana Leite
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Latent Variables ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Environmental Behavior ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Environmental Attitude ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Main Determinants

Purpose Through the application of the theory of planned behavior (TPB), this study aims to explore the main determinants of higher education students’ pro-environmental behavior. Design/methodology/approach An online survey was conducted among the students of a public higher education institution (HEI) in Portugal, from March to May of 2020. The data were analyzed with the structural equation modeling technique, considering environmental attitude, knowledge, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control as exogenous latent variables, and pro-environmental intention and behavior as endogenous latent variables. Findings The results show that the students’ environmental attitude and knowledge have no significant impact on their pro-environmental intention, while the students’ subjective norm and perceived behavioral control have a positive impact on their pro-environmental intention. The results also reveal that the students’ perceived behavioral control and pro-environmental intention have a strong and positive impact on their pro-environmental behavior. Research limitations/implications This study focuses on the students from a single public HEI, in accounting and administration area, and deepens environmental behavior in relation to resources’ consumption. Practical implications This study provides findings that can be useful for HEIs to be more effective in their policies, strategies and practices to improve students’ environmental behavior. Originality/value The paper contributes to the literature by exploring the main determinants of higher education students’ pro-environmental behavior in a Portuguese HEI and extending the TPB considering the additional variable environmental knowledge.

Factors which Influence Students Enterpreneurship Intentions: The Role of Education Programs, Subjective Norms and Perceived Behavioral Control

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-179
Author(s):  
Elona Cera ◽  
Nevila Furxhiu
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Subjective Norms ◽  
The Other ◽  
First Year ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

Abstract The entrepreneur aim is a very important factor, which is considered as a key element in youth employment and the development of the country's welfare. Literature suggests that same of factors which influence enterpreneurship intention are educatin programs, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control. This study was conducted based on an intentional sample, which consisted of master's student, respectively the first year Business Administration and Public Administration, in Economic Faculty of Tirana University. The sample is composed with 63 people. The empirical analysis is based in the main two elements: first, the use of a standardized instrument and secondly, statistical analysis, factor analysis, correlation and linear regression. The study shows that education programs and subjective norms don’t relate positively with the entrepreneur aim. On the other hand, it emerges that perceived behavioral control has a positive impact on the development of entrepreneurial goal.

Examining the Intention to Invest in Cryptocurrencies

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 59-79
Author(s):  
Quoc Trung Pham ◽  
Hiep Hai Phan ◽  
Matteo Cristofaro ◽  
Sanjay Misra ◽  
Pier Luigi Giardino
Keyword(s):  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Perceived Control ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
Financial Behavior ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Herding Behavior ◽  
Socio Demographic Factors

Among investors of cryptocurrencies there are supporters and detractors; this claims for the identification of the behavioral and socio-demographic factors that push to invest (or not) in cryptocurrencies. A survey has been administered to 275 Italian investors. Together with socio-demographic features (gender, income, age, and education), behavioral factors derived from the theory of planned behavior (attitude, subjective norm, and perceived control behavior) and from the financial behavior literature (illegal attitude, herding behavior, perceived risk, perceived benefit, and financial literacy) have been collected and analyzed. While attitude, illegal attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, herding behavior, and perceived risk have a positive impact on investors' intentions. Socio-demographic factors and financial literacy have no influence on the intention to invest in cryptocurrencies. This is the first study that comprehensively investigates the influence of behavioral and socio-demographic factors on the intention of investors to invest in cryptocurrencies.

Distinguishing the sources of normative influence on proenvironmental behaviors

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 623-635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferdinando Fornara ◽  
Giuseppe Carrus ◽  
Paola Passafaro ◽  
Mirilia Bonnes
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Waste Recycling ◽  
Household Waste ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Normative Influence ◽  
Proenvironmental Behavior ◽  
Local Norms ◽  
Independent Effects

The aim of this study was to assess whether different kinds of social norms make a distinct contribution and are differently associated to a place-related behavior, such as household waste recycling. The construct of “local norms” is introduced to identify the normative influence that derives from people sharing the same spatial-physical setting. This kind of influence is expected to hold particular relevance when dealing with individual behaviors that have spatially defined collective implications. Participants were 452 residents of various Italian cities, who filled in a questionnaire measuring intentions to recycle, attitudes towards recycling, perceived behavioral control, and 4 kinds of norms stemming from a 2 x 2 combination (i.e., injunctive vs. descriptive, and subjective vs. local norms). Structural equation modelling analyses confirmed the empirical distinction of the 4 kinds of norms, and showed their independent effects on recycling intentions. In particular, descriptive norms (both subjective and local) emerged as powerful predictors of the target proenvironmental behavior, both directly and indirectly through their influence on perceived behavioral control. The implications of the distinction among different kinds of social norms and their relationship with the other dimensions are discussed.

scholarly journals A Qualitative Study on the Influencing Factors of Public Participation in the Construction of “Waste-Free City” Exploratory Analysis Based on Grounded Theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 290 ◽  
pp. 03018
Author(s):  
Mao Chai ◽  
Jing Jiao ◽  
Yu Han
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Driving Factors ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
The Public ◽  
City Construction

As a cellular project of beautiful China and a systematic project of the whole people, the construction of “Waste Free City” cannot be separated from the extensive participation of the public. This research in China’s Henan province “no waste city” construction of public participation as the research object, using the grounded theory, first through open and spindle coding that affecting public participation “no waste city” of the construction of the six main factors: attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, driving factors and social environment and identity characteristics; Then a model of influencing factors of public participation is constructed through selective coding. The results show that participation attitude, subjective norms and perceived behavior control directly affect the willingness of the public to participate in the construction of “waste-free city”, which are internal psychological factors. Government behavior, group influence, community factor and enterprise factor constitute the external environmental factors that affect public participation. The three categories of publicity and education, reward and punishment mechanism and laws and regulations form the driving factors of public participation in the construction of “waste-free city”, which play a moderating role between internal psychological factors and external environmental factors. At the same time, identity characteristics also directly affect the public participation behavior in the construction of “waste-free city”.

scholarly journals Control interactions in the theory of planned behavior: Rethinking the role of subjective norm

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco La Barbera ◽  
Icek Ajzen
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Theory Of Planned Behavior ◽  
Planned Behavior ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Subjective Norm ◽  
Subjective Norms ◽  
Household Waste ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Relative Importance

Research with the theory of planned behavior (TPB) has typically treated attitude (ATT), subjective norm (SN), and perceived behavioral control (PBC) as independent predictors of intention (INT). However, theoretically, PBC moderates the effects of ATT and SN on intention. In three studies dealing with different behaviors (voting, reducing household waste, and energy consumption) we show that greater PBC tends to strengthen the relative importance of ATT in the prediction of intention, whereas it tends to weaken the relative importance of SN. The latter pattern was observed in relation to injunctive as well as descriptive subjective norms, and it may help explain the relatively weak relation between SN and INT frequently observed in TPB studies.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study on Pedestrians' Intention to Violate Traffic Rules: The Case of China and Djibouti

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Waiss Ali Aden ◽  
Shengchuan Zhao ◽  
Fazal Subhan ◽  
Hongmei Zhou ◽  
Irfan Ullah
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Intention ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Subjective Norm ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
The Road ◽  
Dalian City ◽  
Traffic Rules

Crashes involving pedestrians account for a higher proportion of all road traffic crashes. So, in order to develop more effective safety measures, it is important to determine the causes of the crashes that involve pedestrians. This paper adopts an extended Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to predict and explain pedestrians’ intention to violate traffic rules when crossing the road. In addition to the three traditional determinants of intention (instrumental attitude, Subjective norm and perceived behavioral control), this paper analyzes the effects of sensation seeking and conformity tendency on the intention to violate traffic rules while crossing the road. In order to analyze the relationships among the aforementioned variables, a survey was conducted in Dalian City (China) and Djibouti City (Djibouti), 452 participants from Dalian City and 828 participants from Djibouti City were interviewed. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was employed to analyze the collected data. The results indicated that the instrumental attitude, the subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control positively affected the behavioral intention to violate traffic rules when crossing the road for both cities except for perceived behavioral control which was not significant for Dalian City. Conformity tendency and sensation seeking had a significant and positive impact on behavioral intention for Djibouti City. However, for Dalian City, conformity tendency significantly and positively affected the behavioral intention, but sensation seeking did not. Several empirical and practical implications were also discussed.

scholarly journals Environmental protection and pollution prevention: What determines the intention of tea farmers’ ecosystem construction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
ShaLou ◽  
Bingru Zhang ◽  
Dehua Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Pollution Prevention ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Green Production ◽  
Private Credit ◽  
Tea Production ◽  
The Government

Abstract Pesticide is inevitable in the process of tea production. Residual chemical pesticides absorbed by human body and soil will pose a great threat to human health. The construction of tea garden ecosystem that uses the principle of mutual restriction between species can effectively reduce the number of pests and the dependence on pesticides. In order to improve the adoption and attention of green production among farmers, the government strongly supports rural financial institutions to lend to farmers and encourages resources to be inclined to farmers. The aim of this study was to find out what factors affect the intention of tea farmers’ ecosystem construction and the differences of influence on intention of Chinese tea farmers' ecosystem construction under different financing modes. The results of the empirical research showed that the attitude, perceived behavioral control and subjective norms of tea farmers have a significant positive impact on the behavioral intention. And for tea farmers who get bank financing, the influencing intensity and significance of factors are different from those who obtain private credit. This study provided a theoretical basis for government to promote the development of ecosystem construction in the agricultural section, and put forward suggestions for financial institutions to serve environmental protection.

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