Studying Ethical Judgments and Behavioral Intentions Using Structural Equations: Evidence from the Multidimensional Ethics Scale*

2008 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 627-640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nhung T. Nguyen ◽  
Michael D. Biderman
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
Ethical Judgments ◽  
Multidimensional Ethics Scale

Individual Difference Variables, Ethical Judgments, and Ethical Behavioral Intentions

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Bass ◽  
Tim Barnett ◽  
Gene Brown
Keyword(s):  
Individual Difference ◽  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Just World ◽  
Ethical Judgments ◽  
Individual Difference Variables ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Ethical Behavioral Intentions ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract:This study examined the relationship between the individual difference variables of personal moral philosophy, locus of control, Machiavellianism, and just world beliefs and ethical judgments and behavioral intentions. A sample of 602 marketing practitioners participated in the study. Structural equation modeling was used to test hypothesized relationships. The results either fully or partially supported hypothesized direct effects for idealism, relativism, and Machiavellianism. Findings also suggested that Machiavellianism mediated the relationship between individual difference variables and ethical judgments/behavioral intentions.

Enhancing the Mobile User Experience Through Colored Contrasts

2019 ◽  
pp. 863-876
Author(s):  
Jean-Éric Pelet ◽  
Basma Taieb
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Negative Contrast ◽  
Positive Contrast ◽  
Mobile User ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
Color Contrast ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Green Background ◽  
Managerial Implications

This chapter examines the effects of the mobile-phone website colored contrasts and the affective states of the consumer (emotions and moods) and trust, respectively, on intention to revisit, buy on, and recommend the mobile website. For this purpose, a factorial plan 2x2 was developed, and a mobile website, with two different alternatives, was designed especially for the experiment: positive contrast (yellow text on green background) and negative contrast (green text on yellow background). The research was conducted on French consumers. Three-hundred twelve valid responses were collected through online and personal survey questionnaires. Data was analysed using the method of structural equations. The results show the significant effects of mobile website's color contrast on behavioral intentions. Perceived dominance and trust towards the website have positive effects on behavioral intentions, whereas mood has non-significant effects on behavioral intentions. Managerial implications are discussed.

Enhancing the Mobile User Experience Through Colored Contrasts

2018 ◽  
pp. 6070-6082
Author(s):  
Jean-Éric Pelet ◽  
Basma Taieb
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Negative Contrast ◽  
Positive Contrast ◽  
Mobile User ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
Color Contrast ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Green Background ◽  
Managerial Implications

This study examines the effects of the mobile-phone website colored contrasts and the affective states of the consumer (emotions and moods) and trust respectively on intention to revisit, buy on and recommend the mobile website. For this purpose, a factorial plan 2x2 was developed and a mobile website, with two different alternatives, was designed especially for the experiment: positive contrast (yellow text on green background) and negative contrast (green text on yellow background). The research was conducted on French consumers. 312 valid responses were collected through online and personal survey questionnaires. Data was analysed using the method of structural equations. The results show the significant effects of mobile website's color contrast on behavioral intentions. Perceived dominance and trust towards the website have positive effects on behavioral intentions, whereas mood has non-significant effects on behavioral intentions. Managerial implications are discussed.

scholarly journals Customer Experience and Behavioral Intentions: The Mediation Role of Customer Perceived Value

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fortune Edem Amenuvor ◽  
Kwasi Owusu-Antwi ◽  
Richard Basilisco ◽  
Bae Seong-Chan
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Perceived Value ◽  
Customer Experience ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Hedonic Value ◽  
Customer Perceived Value ◽  
Utilitarian Value

The overarching aim of this research is to empirically test the effect of customer experience on customer perceived value and behavioral intentions while assessing the mediating role of customer perceived value. To achieve this aim, we collect data from 338 customers of restaurants in South Korea. The hypotheses intended to achieve this aim are tested using the structural equations modeling technique. The outcome of the research reveals that customer experience positively and significantly affects behavioral intentions. Additionally, customer experience has a significant positive effect on both hedonic and utilitarian value respectively. Hedonic value positively and significantly predicts behavioral intents while utilitarian value is negative but significantly related to behavioral intentions. The study further finds support for a mediating effect of hedonic value on the relationship between customer experience and behavioral intentions. The current study provides managerial and theoretical insights into understanding customer experience management, customer perceived value, and customer behavioral intentions.

scholarly journals Ethical Attitudes toward COVID-19 Passports: Evidences from Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (24) ◽  
pp. 13098
Author(s):  
Mario Arias-Oliva ◽  
Jorge Pelegrín-Borondo ◽  
Ala Ali Almahameed ◽  
Jorge de Andrés-Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sufficient Condition ◽  
Ethical Judgments ◽  
Multidimensional Ethics Scale ◽  
User Attitudes ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Evaluation

A so-called COVID-19 passport or Immunity passport (IP) has been proposed to facilitate the mobility of individuals while the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic persists. A COVID-19 passport can play a key role in the control of the pandemic, specifically in areas with a high density of population, and the help of smart city technology could be very useful to successfully implement IPs. This research studies the impact of ethical judgments on user attitudes toward using vaccine passports based on a Multidimensional Ethics Scale (MES) that contains five ethical constructs: moral equity, relativism, egoism, utilitarianism, and contractualism. Regression analysis shows that MES satisfactorily explains attitude (R2 = 87.82%, p < 0.001) and that a positive evaluation in moral equity, egoism and utilitarianism is significant (p < 0.001). The objective of the passport (variable leisure) shows a significant negative moderating effect on moral equity (coefficient = −0.147, p = 0.0302) and a positive one on relativism (coefficient = 0.158, p = 0.0287). Adjustment by means of fsQCA shows that five ethical constructs satisfactorily explain both favorable and unfavorable attitudes toward IPs. Solutions explaining acceptance attain an overall consistency (cons) = 0.871 and coverage (cov) = 0.980. In the case of resistance, we found that cons = 0.979 and cov = 0.775. However, that influence is asymmetrical. To have a positive attitude toward the passport, it is a sufficient condition to attain a positive evaluation on a single ethical factor. On the other hand, when explaining resistance, and with the exception of the recipe ~utilitarianism (cons = 0.911 and cov = 0.859), explanatory prime implications require the interaction of at least two variables. Likewise, the context in which the passport is required is significant to explain rejection.

Consumer ethics: an application and empirical testing of the Hunt‐Vitell theory of ethics

2001 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott J. Vitell ◽  
Anusorn Singhapakdi ◽  
James Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Large Degree ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Empirical Testing ◽  
Ethical Judgments ◽  
Moderating Variables ◽  
Ethical Norms ◽  
Perceived Consequences

Analyzes how consumers make decisions involving ethical issues. In particular, investigates the extent to which consumers rely on ethical norms (deontology) versus the perceived consequences of behaviors (teleology) in forming their ethical judgments and in determining behavioral intentions in situations involving ethical issues. The results based upon three studies, including a national sample of adult consumers, reveal that consumers tend to rely primarily on ethical norms and less on perceived consequences in forming ethical judgments. Results also indicate that consumers, to a large degree, rely primarily on ethical norms in determining their behavioral intentions in situations involving ethical issues. Finally, a number of personal characteristics were tested as moderating variables, but results were generally inconclusive, despite some evidence that education and religiosity may be moderators.

scholarly journals Effects of colored contrast of mobile websites on behavioral intentions

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Eric Pelet ◽  
Basma Taieb
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Negative Contrast ◽  
Positive Contrast ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
Color Contrast ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Consumer Emotions ◽  
Green Background ◽  
Managerial Implications

This study examines the effects of the mobile-phone website colored contrasts and the affective states of the consumer (emotions and moods) and trust respectively on intention to revisit, buy on and recommend the mobile website. For this purpose, a factorial plan 2x2 was developed and a mobile website, with two different alternatives, was designed especially for the experiment: positive contrast (yellow text on green background) and negative contrast (green text on yellow background). The research was conducted on French consumers. 312 valid responses were collected through online and personal survey questionnaires. Data was analysed using the method of structural equations. The results show the significant effects of mobile website’s color contrast on behavioral intentions. Perceived dominance and trust towards the website have positive effects on behavioral intentions, whereas mood has non-significant effects on behavioral intentions. Managerial implications are discussed.

scholarly journals Intenciones de comportamiento, satisfacción y calidad percibida de los espectadores del Campeonato Asiático de Voleibol Masculino Sub-23 de 2017

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-118
Author(s):  
B. Naghi-Pour Givi ◽  
A. Hossein Monazzami ◽  
E. Mohamadi Turkmani ◽  
R. Mirfallah Nassiri
Keyword(s):  
Product Quality ◽  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Main Product ◽  
Perceived Quality ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
Service Satisfaction ◽  
Quality Of Services ◽  
Quality Service ◽  
Sport Events

El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar las intenciones de comportamiento, la satisfacción y la calidad percibida de los espectadores del Campeonato Asiático de Voleibol Masculino Sub-23 de 2017. La muestra estuvo compuesta por 351 espectadores del evento. El instrumento utilizado fue un cuestionario fiable formado por cinco sub-cuestionarios sobre calidad del servicio, calidad del producto principal, satisfacción con el servicio, satisfacción con el juego e intenciones de comportamiento. El análisis estadístico se basó en ecuaciones estructurales y se realizó con el software WarpPLS versión 6. La calidad de los servicios tuvo un efecto significativo en la satisfacción con el servicio (β = 0,504; P <0,001). La calidad del producto principal tuvo un efecto significativo en la satisfacción con el juego (β = 0,658; P <0,001). Además, la satisfacción con el juego tuvo un efecto significativo sobre las intenciones de comportamiento (β = 0,514; P <0,001). Sin embargo, el efecto de la satisfacción con el servicio sobre las intenciones de comportamiento no fue significativo. Por ello, es recomendable que los organizadores de megaeventos deportivos consideren estos resultados con el fin de mejorar las intenciones de comportamiento, la satisfacción y la calidad percibida de los espectadores. The aim of this study was to analyze behavioral intentions, satisfaction and perceived quality of the spectators of the 2017 Asian Men's U23 Volleyball Championship. The sample was composed of 351 spectators of the event. The instrument used was a reliable questionnaire with five sub-questionnaires about service quality, main product quality, service satisfaction, game satisfaction, and behavioral intentions. The statistical analysis was based on structural equations and it was carried out with the software WarpPLS version 6. The quality of services had a significant effect on service satisfaction (β=0.504, P<0.001). The core product quality had a significant effect on game satisfaction (β=0.658, P<0.001). Also, the game satisfaction had a significant effect on behavioral intentions (β=0.514, P<0.001). However, the effect of service satisfaction on behavioral intentions was not significant. Therefore, it is recommendable that the organizers of mega sport events consider these results in order to improve the behavioral intentions, satisfaction and perceived quality of the spectators.

The Nature, Measurement, and Stability of Ethical Judgments in the Workplace

1997 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 563-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald P. Robin ◽  
R. Eric Reidenbach ◽  
Barry J. Babin
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Behavior ◽  
Conceptual Models ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Ethical Judgment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Dimensional Structure ◽  
Iterative Approach ◽  
Ethical Judgments ◽  
Multidimensional Ethics Scale ◽  
Unethical Decision Making

A basic interest in the Tightness and wrongness of actions predates philosophy, and the literature of organizational psychology indicates an increased interest in ethical and unethical decision-making in the workplace. Although several conceptual models of workplace ethical behavior have been offered, researchers have little guidance and few appropriate constructs for measuring a key component of these models. This paper focuses on the historical results of the Multidimensional Ethics Scale and construct of an ethical judgment and provides an exhaustive conceptual and empirical treatment of it. This analysis offers evidence for a three-dimensional structure underlying ethical judgments common to the workplace. The structure of the Multidimensional Ethics Scale is supported through an iterative approach which involves widely varying contexts and samples. Results have potential implications for developing theories of organizational ethics as well as for employees' psychological well-being.

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