Empirical analysis of tenants’ intention to exit public rental housing units based on the Theory of Planned Behavior – The case of Wuhan, China

2017 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 27-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jintao Li ◽  
Cynthia C. Wang ◽  
Jun Sun
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Planned Behavior ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Planned Behavior ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Public Rental Housing ◽  
Housing Units

Growing up in Hong Kong before and after 1980

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yue Chim Richard Wong
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Public Rental Housing ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Upward Social Mobility ◽  
Poor Children ◽  
Housing Estates ◽  
Housing Units

Hong Kong’s public housing estates are transforming into areas of growing poverty, with more divorced households. They are increasingly weak neighborhoods for motivating children to higher aspirations. There are doubts about the wisdom of continuing the development of more public rental housing units to solve our shortage of housing units. A far better solution is to build subsidized homes for ownership so that families have a stake to stay together and work for a better future. By keeping families together, more children will be prevented from falling into a state of disadvantage that will be detrimental to their future upward social mobility. Why foster and concentrate the poor and the divorced in publicly subsidized ghettos? Poor children deserve a better deal. A city of homeowners is also less politically divided.

scholarly journals An empirical analysis of the moderating effect of consumer skepticism between social value orientations and green advertising effectiveness

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ali ◽  
Umar Hassan ◽  
Ishamuddin Mustapha ◽  
Sharina Osman
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Planned Behavior ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Planned Behavior ◽  
Advertising Effectiveness ◽  
Activation Model ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Green Advertising ◽  
Consumer Skepticism ◽  
Prosocial Orientation ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this study is to add a reliable factor that can contribute theoretically and methodologically to explain prosocial and proself behaviors. The study also signifies that green advertising approaches enable the consumer to develop an intention for green purchases. The basic idea is to investigate consumer social orientations and align them with green advertising initiatives to elicit the desired response as green purchase to manifest environmentally conscious behavior. Design/methodology/approach The empirical analysis is based on data collection through questionnaires. Data is analyzed through structural equation modeling to assess the relationship of constructs. Findings The results of the study are empirically drawn through the measurement of relationships among consumer skepticism and the effectiveness of green advertising initiatives. Mediation of proself and prosocial orientation exists for public self-awareness but does not exist for benefit distance. Consumer skepticism moderates the relationship between prosocial orientation and green advertising effectiveness (GAE) but has no moderation between proself orientation and GAE. Originality/value The limitation of conventional prosocial theory does not explain the environmental behaviors driven by proself orientations. Hence, the addition of factors such as public awareness and social benefit distance coupled with signaling theory with foundations on theory of planned behavior and norm activation model to explain environmental conservation add an element of originality to the existing literature. Contribution to Impact The contribution of this study is the incorporation of social orientations as the antecedent for consumer behavior in an environmental context particularly as a response to green advertising initiatives to purchase green products. The use of theory of planned behavior in conjunction with the norm activation model and signaling theory adds to the literary bank.

Reflections on Old Age Poverty in Public Rental Housing Estates

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yue Chim Richard Wong
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Market Value ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Rental Housing ◽  
Old Age Poverty ◽  
Nontraded Assets ◽  
Housing Estates ◽  
Housing Units

Privatizing the public rental housing estates would create a very large client pool of elderly homeowners willing to take advantage of mortgage-backed annuity schemes in the era of modern finance. This would create better opportunities for diversifying risks associated with the uncertainty of life expectancy. A bigger market could lead to better terms to the benefit of all participants. And, if the elderly poor in our public housing estates became homeowners, perhaps their children would pay them more attention. In principle, recurrent government funding is not required because it would be financed by land that currently has no market value because public rental housing units are nontraded assets. Selling public rental housing units to sitting tenants would restore the market value of a non- traded asset that could provide old age support for elderly people.

Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Predict Faking in Selection Exercises Varying in Fidelity

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Dürr ◽  
Ute-Christine Klehe
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Planned Behavior ◽  
Planned Behavior ◽  
Predictive Validity ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Role Play ◽  
Selection Procedure ◽  
High Fidelity ◽  
Selection Research ◽  
Play Group

Abstract. Faking has been a concern in selection research for many years. Many studies have examined faking in questionnaires while far less is known about faking in selection exercises with higher fidelity. This study applies the theory of planned behavior (TPB; Ajzen, 1991 ) to low- (interviews) and high-fidelity (role play, group discussion) exercises, testing whether the TPB predicts reported faking behavior. Data from a mock selection procedure suggests that candidates do report to fake in low- and high-fidelity exercises. Additionally, the TPB showed good predictive validity for faking in a low-fidelity exercise, yet not for faking in high-fidelity exercises.

Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Explore Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients’ Dietary Behavior

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-52
Author(s):  
Jo Wray ◽  
Claire Orrells ◽  
Helen Latch ◽  
Michael Burch
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Planned Behavior ◽  
Heart Transplantation ◽  
Planned Behavior ◽  
Vegetable Consumption ◽  
Graft Loss ◽  
Dietary Behaviors ◽  
Food Groups ◽  
Tpb Model ◽  
Eating Fruit ◽  
End Stage

Abstract. Heart transplantation is the treatment of choice for children with end-stage heart disease. Coronary artery vasculopathy is, however, a significant morbidity and leading cause of late graft loss, and hyperlipidemia a risk factor for its development. Improving diet in this population could have important benefits for patients. We wanted to understand what influences decisions about food intake in this patient group. Dietary intentions and behavior were examined using a questionnaire based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) with 67 children who had undergone heart transplantation at least 12 months previously. The TPB model was significant for both healthy and unhealthy dietary behaviors, explaining 55% and 38% of the variance, respectively. Ten percent of children reported not eating any fruit and/or vegetables in the previous week and only 29% reported eating fruit and/or vegetables every day. The Theory of Planned Behavior provides a framework for explaining some specific dietary behaviors related to individual food groups in children who have undergone heart transplantation. These preliminary data support using this approach to inform the development of interventions to improve fruit and vegetable consumption but the approach may be less useful for explaining and developing interventions to reduce the consumption of unhealthy foods.

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