The fallacy of one-dimensional theory of planned behaviour structure in predicting health behaviour

Yap, Sheau Fen; Othman, Nor; Wee, Yu Ghee

doi:10.1504/ijbhr.2013.054516

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“…And it did not have a significantly different effect between Spanish and Portuguese students. The PBC has shown a volatility in the empirical results related to its influence on the intention and also to a certain lack of agreement regarding the concept and operationalization (Yap et al, 2013). It is a concept that is associated with high self-efficacy and effectiveness (Zhao et al, 2010).…”

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Impact of the Optimistic Perspective on the Intention to Create Social Enterprises: A Comparative Study Between Portugal and Spain

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Social entrepreneurship (SE) enables business consolidation, combined with the production of positive impact and improvements in society. Aligned with 2030 Agenda for the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, it is important to clarify the role of social entrepreneurs, as they are making visible the impact of their creative ideas in several areas, from civic engagement to the environment, health and learning. The main purpose of this study is to specify a model of social entrepreneurial intention (SEI) and explore it by country, based on the dimensions of the Theory of Planned Behavior and how these are mediated by spirituality and optimism. With a convenience sample of 1476 Portuguese and Spanish students, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used. For a deeply understanding, variables within the model were compared by country using t-rest, and multivariate analysis was done by each one separately. The mean comparison between countries, demonstrated that there are differences only between perceived behavioral control (PBC), Spirituality, Optimism and SEI, with Portuguese students scoring the highest values, in all variables except Optimism. A mediation path was carried out, and Spirituality mediate a significant effect between the three TPB dimensions in Portuguese students, but not in students from Spain. Finally, after discussing the results, theoretical and practical contributions are analyzed, with regard to the field of SE in Portugal and Spain, and alternatives are pointed out for a more social and sustainable entrepreneurial future.

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Impact of the Optimistic Perspective on the Intention to Create Social Enterprises: A Comparative Study Between Portugal and Spain

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“…Moreover, our results showed that entrepreneurial intention is best represented by three factors-choice intention, commitment to entrepreneurship, and nascent entrepreneurship. A few studies have so far investigated the factorial validity of the complete "two-component" TPB model, and even fewer have attempted to compare the predictive ability of these components on intention (e.g., Courneya et al, 2006;Huang & Chen, 2015;Yap et al, 2013). The results of these studies, which were mostly concentrated on predicting health and exercise behavior, indicate that the complete two-component TPB model fits the data better than the traditional TPB model does (Huang & Chen, 2015).…”

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“…PBC is considered as the most controversial construct in the TPB in part because of the inconsistency in the empirical findings related to its influence on intention and in part because of the disagreement regarding its conceptualization and operationalization (Yap, Othman, & Wee, 2013). The PBC concept, when introduced by Ajzen (1991) as another antecedent factor that can predict intention, was defined as a "person's perception of the ease or difficulty of performing the behavior of interest" (Ajzen, 1991, p. 183).…”

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Attitude toward entrepreneurship, perceived behavioral control, and entrepreneurial intention: dimensionality, structural relationships, and gender differences

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Drawing on the theory of planned behavior, the main purpose of this cross-sectional study was to identify gender-related differences in the levels of and the interrelations among attitude toward entrepreneurship, perceived behavioral control, and entrepreneurial intention using multi-group structural equations modeling in which the dimensions of these constructs were disentangled and treated as latent variables that were indirectly inferred from multiple indicators. The sample of the study consisted of 441 Greek tertiary education undergraduate information technology students. The results showed that attitude consists of two components-one instrumental and one affective; perceived behavioral control is comprised of two factors-perceived self-efficacy and perceived controllability; and entrepreneurial intention is best represented by three factors-choice intention, commitment to entrepreneurship, and nascent entrepreneurship. The findings indicated further that affective attitude and perceived self-efficacy are by far the strongest predictors of intention, thus highlighting the role of emotions in the entrepreneurial process. Our work revealed also that the relationship between commitment to entrepreneurship and nascent entrepreneurship is stronger in men than in women. Conceiving nascent entrepreneurship as a proxy for entrepreneurial behavior, this finding implies that gender is a moderator of the entrepreneurial intention-action translation. Despite its limitations, this study makes some important contributions and implications to the literature of entrepreneurship. These and future research suggestions are also discussed.

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“…The findings revealed that perceived behavioral control predicts significantly stronger than subjective norms on entrepreneurial intentions in both genders, and it did not have an effect significantly different between males and females. Perceived behavioral control is considered as the most controversial construct in the Theory of Planned Behavior for two reasons: the inconsistency in the empirical findings related to its influence on intention and in the disagreement regarding its conceptualization and operationalization ( Yap et al, 2013 ), and it is often associated with self-efficacy ( Zhao et al, 2010 ). Although the difference in the mean between both genders is statistically significant, the values are not high.…”

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The Roles of Psychological Capital and Gender in University Students’ Entrepreneurial Intentions

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Universities increasingly play an important role in entrepreneurship, which has contributed to gender equality in the business world. The aim of this study is to establish a causal model of entrepreneurial intentions and explore it by gender, based on the dimensions of the Theory of Planned Behavior, and how these are mediated by the individuals’ resilience and psychological well-being. The previous work experience was considered as one of the control variables, in order to analyze whether this influence the entrepreneurial intention. With a convenience sample of 644 Portuguese students, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used. For a better understanding, multivariate analyses were performed and each one was individually reported, and for appropriate comparisons by gender, the t-student test was used. The comparison of means, between genders, showed that there are differences only between perceived behavioral control, subjective norm, and entrepreneurial intention, with women scoring the highest values, and psychological well-being, with men scoring the higher. A serial mediation path was performed, and psychological resilience was found to mediate a significant effect between perceived behavioral control and intention in females, but not in males. It also mediates a significant effect between attitude and intention in females, but not in males. These results show that attitude is a determining factor for females to become entrepreneurs. Finally, after discussing the results, theoretical and practical contributions are analyzed, with regard to the field of entrepreneurship in Portugal, and alternatives are pointed out for a more entrepreneurial future, reinforcing the role of higher education institutions.

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The fallacy of one-dimensional theory of planned behaviour structure in predicting health behaviour

Cited by 14 publications

References 65 publications

Impact of the Optimistic Perspective on the Intention to Create Social Enterprises: A Comparative Study Between Portugal and Spain

Impact of the Optimistic Perspective on the Intention to Create Social Enterprises: A Comparative Study Between Portugal and Spain

Attitude toward entrepreneurship, perceived behavioral control, and entrepreneurial intention: dimensionality, structural relationships, and gender differences

The Roles of Psychological Capital and Gender in University Students’ Entrepreneurial Intentions

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