Exploring the lower rates of entry into undergraduate engineering among female students through the application of the reasoned action approach

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Grace Moloney ◽  
Aoife Ahern
Keyword(s):  
Reasoned Action ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Reasoned Action Approach ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering

scholarly journals A reasoned action approach to understand vaccination intention among healthcare professions students

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
F De Nard ◽  
S Rivolta ◽  
M Letzgus ◽  
M Gaiazzi ◽  
D Carnevali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reasoned Action ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Medical Residents ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Reasoned Action Approach ◽  
Flu Vaccination ◽  
Vaccination Behavior ◽  
Healthcare Professions ◽  
Prevention Techniques ◽  
Vaccination Knowledge

Abstract Background Understanding the predictors of vaccination intention among healthcare workers, including students in healthcare professions (SHPs), is crucial for policy making and for the development of evidence-driven training programs. The reasoned action approach (RAA) model includes three components to predict intention: attitude (experiential/instrumental), perceived norm (injunctive/descriptive), and perceived behavioral control (capacity/autonomy). We aimed to investigate the predictors of seasonal Flu vaccination intention among SHPs of the University of Milan. Methods We spread an e-survey to all medical residents and first- and last-year SHPs (medicine, nursery, midwifery, healthcare assistance and prevention techniques). The strength of association between measures of RAA components (as well as sociodemographic data, past vaccination behavior, vaccination knowledge, and perceived vaccination facilitation strategies), and vaccination intention was estimated using uni- and multivariate logistic regression models. Results Among 5743 invited SHPs, 884 participated in the survey and were included in the descriptive analyses (52,3% medical residents, 19,9% medicine, 21,1% nursing, 3,6% healthcare assistance, 2,7% prevention techniques and 0,5% midwifery students). Twenty-nine psycho-attitudinal items with an overall Cronbach alpha >0.7 were included in the analyses. The regression analyses were performed on 751 subjects who filled in completely the survey. Past vaccination behavior, vaccination knowledge, experiential attitudes, and perceived vaccination facilitation strategies were positive predictors of Flu vaccination intention (OR 8.16, 2.42, 1.96 and 1.15 respectively, p < 0.05). Conclusions Our results indicated knowledge, experiential attitudes and facilitation strategies as modifiable predictors of vaccination intention among SHPs. Targeted and lasting interventions are needed in order to pursue a change in the strongest predictor, past vaccination behavior. Key messages Past vaccination is the strongest predictor of vaccination intention among students in healthcare professions. Knowledge, attitudes and perceived facilitators predict vaccine propensity among students in healthcare professions.

Identifying beliefs behind boys’ use of mobile phones to monitor girlfriends and girls’ acceptance: a reasoned-action approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 922-939 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ainara Nardi-Rodríguez ◽  
Mª Ángeles Pastor-Mira ◽  
Sofía López-Roig ◽  
Victoria Ferrer-Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Reasoned Action ◽  
Reasoned Action Approach

Pregnant Smokers’ Intention to Switch From Cigarettes to E-Cigarettes: A Reasoned Action Approach

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Page D. Dobbs ◽  
Paul Branscum ◽  
Amy M. Cohn ◽  
Alayna P. Tackett ◽  
Ashley L. Comiford
Keyword(s):  
Reasoned Action ◽  
Reasoned Action Approach ◽  
Pregnant Smokers

scholarly journals Meta-Analysis of the Reasoned Action Approach (RAA) to Understanding Health Behaviors

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 592-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemary McEachan ◽  
Natalie Taylor ◽  
Reema Harrison ◽  
Rebecca Lawton ◽  
Peter Gardner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Reasoned Action ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Reasoned Action Approach

Beliefs Underlying Eating Better and Moving More

2012 ◽  
Vol 640 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan E. Middlestadt
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Interventions ◽  
Cardiovascular Health ◽  
Reasoned Action ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Reasoned Action Approach ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Belief Elicitation ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Salient Beliefs

The reasoned action approach has been used to identify the determinants of a behavior to be modified by social and behavioral interventions. Information on the specific beliefs underlying behavioral decisions is vital to intervention design. More attention is needed on the salient belief elicitation—a critical step in a theory-based formative research process. This article considers the methodological issues involved in conducting a salient belief elicitation with special attention to an elicitation that allows the comparison of results across several behaviors and priority groups. The author uses the behaviors underlying overweight and obesity as her central example. To support the development of interventions to improve cardiovascular health and to explore methods for a comparative analysis of salient belief elicitations, semistructured interviews were conducted with 243 adults from two rural and two urban worksites in Indiana and 344 students from three middle schools in rural Indiana. Content and frequency analyses identified the modal salient beliefs underlying several eating and physical activity behaviors. Illustrative results are presented, and recommendations for salient belief elicitation are discussed.

scholarly journals The reasoned action approach applied to health behavior: Role of past behavior and test of some key moderators using meta-analytic structural equation modeling

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin S Hagger ◽  
Juho Polet ◽  
Taru Lintunen
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
Health Behavior ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Reasoned Action ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Reasoned Action Approach ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Past Behavior

Rationale: The reasoned action approach (RAA) is a social cognitive model that outlines the determinants of intentional behavior. Primary and meta-analytic studies support RAA predictions in multiple health behaviors. However, including past behavior as a predictor in the RAA may attenuate model effects. Direct effects of past behavior on behavior may reflect non-conscious processes while indirect effects of past behavior through social cognitive variables may represent reasoned processes. Objective: The present study extended a previous meta-analysis of the RAA by including effects of past behavior. The analysis also tested effects of candidate moderators of model predictions: behavioral frequency, behavior type, and measurement lag.Method: We augmented a previous meta-analytic data set with correlations between model constructs and past behavior. We tested RAA models that included and excluded past behavior using meta-analytic structural equation modeling and compared the effects. Separate models were estimated in studies on high and low frequency behaviors, studies on different types of behavior, and studies with longer and shorter measurement lag.Results: Including past behavior attenuated model effects, particularly the direct effect of intentions on behavior, and indirect effects of experiential attitudes, descriptive norms, and capacity on behavior through intentions. Moderator analyses revealed larger intention-behavior and past behavior-behavior effects in high frequency studies, but the differences were not significant. No other notable moderator effects were observed.Conclusion: Findings indicate a prominent role for habitual processes in determining health behavior and inclusion of past behavior in RAA tests is important to yield precise estimates of model effects.

scholarly journals Reasoned Action Frameworks

Communication ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Yzer ◽  
Brian Southwell
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Reasoned Action ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Situational Factors ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
Behavioral Performance ◽  
Reasoned Action Approach ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Individual

Reasoned action frameworks, which include the Theory of Reasoned Action and its extensions, the widely used Theory of Planned Behavior and the more recent Integrative Model of Behavioral Prediction, describe that intention to perform a behavior follows reasonably (but not necessarily rationally) from specific beliefs that people hold about the behavior and that people act on their intentions when they have the required skills and when situational factors do not impede behavioral performance. Reasoned action research has two broad foci. A first seeks to advance theoretical understanding of human social behavior as based on expectancy beliefs about consequences of behavioral performance. A second applies reasoned action research to development or evaluation of interventions that seek to modify a specific behavior in a particular population. The relevance of the reasoned action approach for communication scholars lies in its direct applicability to a wide range of important communication questions, including the explanation of communication as a socially relevant behavior and intra-individual processes to explain how exposure to information leads to behavior change. Although reasoned action propositions embed belief-based processes in a multilevel system of influence, the individual is nonetheless the primary level of analysis. The range of citations included in this bibliography addresses the decades-long time frame during which scholars have explicitly employed core reasoned action concepts. Beyond the introductory works, the examples presented here are illustrative rather than exhaustive, by necessity, as few other behavioral theories have generated more citations in communication research.

scholarly journals Theory of Reasoned Action dan Literasi Teknologi terhadap Adaptasi Perubahan Teknologi

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-61
Author(s):  
Amelia Setiawan ◽  
Hamfri Djajadikerta ◽  
Haryanto Haryanto ◽  
Samuel Wirawan
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Theory Of Reasoned Action ◽  
Reasoned Action ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Employee Attitudes ◽  
Technology Literacy ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Reasoned Action Approach ◽  
Older Employees

One of the company's goals is business continuity. Companies can maintain their survival if supported by human resources who are also ready to follow the demands of changes in their environment. The COVID-19 pandemic is bringing very significant changes in human life today. This study aims to identify the influence of employee profiles and attitudes, subjective norms and information technology literacy on the willingness to adapt to the necessity of using information technology, especially during this pandemic time. This study uses the Theory of Reasoned Action approach as a theoretical basis, electronic questionnaires as a data collection method, and structural equation modeling to observe causal relationships between variables. The results of this study found that the model in this study had met the criteria for the model-fit test, and the only variable affecting employee attitudes was age. Subjective norm variables and information technology literacy have affected employees' intentions to adapt to information technology. The results of this study can be used by companies to design training programs that aim to improve information technology literacy and skills, especially for older employees.

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