Understanding seat-belt use: A test of Bentler and Speckart's extension of the ‘theory of reasoned action’
✍ Scribed by Richard J. Budd; Derek North; Christopher Spencer
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 658 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0046-2772
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✦ Synopsis
It is shown that Fishbein's 'theory of reasoned action' can be used to explain people's intentions to wear seat belts. As Bentler and Speckart (1 979) have proposed, a self-report measure of past behaviour is shown to significantly improve the model's power; this extended Fishbein model being capable of accounting for the majority of the effects that extraneous variables, which are known to influence seat-belt use, have upon a person's behavioural intentions. In addition, it is shown that the model's motivation to comply term is, as Ajzen and Fishbein (1 980) have proposed, a unipolar rather than a bi-polar construct, but that even when this construct i s scored as uni-polar, it does not significantly add to the model's predictive power.