RÉSUMÉ L’étude de l’acceptabilité renvoie à de nombreux modèles (Modèle d’acceptation des technologies : Davis, Bagozzi, & Warshaw, 1989 ; P3, Pouvoir, performance, perception : Dillon & Morris, 1999 ; ou encore Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology : Venkatesh, Morris, Davis, & Davis, 2003) pour prédire le comportement de l’utilisateur. Dans ces modèles le poids des variables sociales pour prédire l’intention d’usage ou le comportement de l’utilisateur est variable (de .02 à .51). Cet article a pour objectif d’analyser les déterminants de cette variabilité en convoquant deux dimensions permettant de mieux cerner l’intervention des variables sociales : la prise en compte des normes descriptives et injonctives (Cialdini, Reno, & Kallgren, 1990) d’une part et d’autre part la pesanteur sociale du comportement réalisé par l’utilisateur alors qu’il recourt à la technologie qu’on lui présente.
The goal of this research was to develop the work of Py and Somat (1991) concerning normative clearsightedness. Although they were interested in the norm of internality, they de®ned normative clearsightedness as`the knowledge of the normative or counternormative aspect of certain types of behaviour or certain types of judgements'. However, even though they placed the concept`normative clearsightedness' within a broad normative perspective that goes beyond merely the norm of internality, it remains to be explored what this broad perspective consists of. In this study, we have turned towards the notion of individualism which testi®es, just like the norm of internality, to a certain social desirability (Somat, Doisneau & Gouin, 1994, unpublished manuscript) in testing the generalizability of normative clearsightedness to other norms. The results obtained in this study demonstrate that normative clearsightedness is applicable to at least one norm other than the norm of internality. In fact, the normative clearsightedness of internal explanations seems to be associated with the normativity of individualistic beliefs. In other words, we ®nd that subjects who are clearsighted with regard to internality are also clearsighted with regard to individualism.
If dissonance theory rightly predicts short-term attitude changes, it has yet to prove its ability to predict long-term changes. Therefore, this paper will try to assess the persistence in attitude change following dissonance arousal in an induced-compliance paradigm. To this end, undergraduate students took part in two induced-compliance experiments (N = 52 in Study 1 and N = 40 in Study 2) following a 2 (free choice vs. no choice) X 2 (time of measure: short vs. long term) mixed design. The attitude change was measured immediately after the counterattitudinal essay and one month later. The results suggest that dissonance-provoked attitude change is durable over time. In fact, only the participants in the free-choice condition changed their attitude in the short term; their attitude change persisted one month after the experimental situation.
International audienceThis article examines if individual differences in preference for consistency affect the behavioral change in the induced-hypocrisy paradigm. Undergraduate students (N=108) completed the PFC scale either one month (no PFC-focus condition) or immediately before (PFC-focus condition) the induced-hypocrisy procedure; this procedure includes pro-socialadvocacy, transgression recall, and a behavioral change measure. Results demonstrated 1) that PFC-level predicts behavioral change only when the participants were focused on their own PFC, 2) a relationship between the number of recalled transgressions and behavioral change only for high-PFC participants in PFC-focus condition. The necessity of consideringsimultaneously PFC-level, PFC-focus and the number of recalled transgressions to better predict behavioral change in the hypocrisy-paradigm, is discusse
(1) Background: Climate change is a major threat to human health and new research is highlighting its effects on physical health. However, there is still little research on the psychological effects, particularly on young people, who seem to be disproportionately affected. (2) Objectives: In this context, we conducted a study focusing on the young adult population to identify psychosocial and behavioral factors that may modulate the intensity of this anxiety. (3) Method: A cross-sectional study by questionnaire was carried out on a sample of 369 young French adults. Data were analyzed via structural equation modelling. (4) Results: The main results suggest that: (1) CFC and information seeking predict climate anxiety, which in turn predicts the emotional consequences of exposure to information about the negative consequences of climate change; (2) information seeking moderates the effects of CFC on climate anxiety. (5) Conclusions: This study highlights both the role of temporal orientation and information seeking on the climate anxiety experienced by young adults. These results provide an interesting lever for health professionals to work with this population who may be more vulnerable to climate anxiety than others.
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