Evidence that intentions based on attitudes better predict behaviour than intentions based on subjective norms

✍ Scribed by Paschal Sheeran; Paul Norman; Sheina Orbell

• Book ID: 101276837
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 83 KB
• Volume: 29
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0046-2772
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0992(199903/05)29:2/3<403::aid-ejsp942>3.0.co;2-a

✦ Synopsis

Self-determination theory suggests that better prediction of behaviour will be observed from intentions based on attitudes than intentions based on subjective norms. Analyses of the intention±behavior relationship for both attitudinally versus normatively controlled people and attitudinally versus normatively controlled behaviours supported this hypothesis.