scholarly journals Understanding the Relationship between Intention and Cat Containment Behaviour: A Case Study of Kitten and Cat Adopters from RSPCA Queensland

Animals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 1214
Author(s):  
Lynette J. McLeod ◽  
Di Evans ◽  
Bidda Jones ◽  
Mandy Paterson ◽  
Sarah Zito
Keyword(s):  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Motivational Factors ◽  
Change Strategies ◽  
Animal Shelter ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
The Relationship

In Australia, cat owners are encouraged to keep their pet cats contained on their property at all times. This study explores the relationship between the intentions and behaviours of 72 kitten and cat adopters from a RSPCA Queensland animal shelter, to provide a more in-depth understanding of the factors influencing the adoption of cat containment behaviours. At the time of adoption, 64 participants (89%) indicated they were intending to keep their cat fully contained. Eight weeks after adoption, 63 participants (87%) reported they were doing so (59 who had stated their intention at the time of adoption, and 4 who had not). We found cat owner containment behaviour was moderately correlated with containment intentions. For some of the participants when it came to enacting this behaviour, their intentions and the provided education information was not enough to overcome the more compelling capability, opportunity and motivational factors which presented themselves once they got home. We were able to identify these factors and suggest additional behaviour change strategies that would assist. Although it is important to provide cat adopters with advice about how to contain their cats properly, these results also highlight the importance of focusing attention on other behaviour change strategies that address the particular barriers faced by some cat-owners who are unsuccessful in keeping their cat contained on their property.

scholarly journals Planning for sedentary behaviour interventions: office workers’ survey and focus group responses

2017 ◽  
Vol 137 (6) ◽  
pp. 316-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teneale McGuckin ◽  
Rebecca Sealey ◽  
Fiona Barnett
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Sedentary Behaviour ◽  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Intervention Strategies ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Office Workers ◽  
Sitting Time ◽  
Change Strategies ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Behavioural Strategies

Aims: As sedentary behaviour is becoming more prominent in office-based work environments, this study aimed to explore office workers’ perceptions of sedentary behaviour, explore potential behavioural strategies to reduce sedentary behaviour in the workplace and identify barriers which may hamper behaviour change. Methods: A total of 140 office workers were recruited and surveyed from the same workplace. The survey included questions regarding perceptions of the relationship between sitting time and health. Following the survey, 12 employees also participated in focus groups to identify potential sedentary behaviour intervention strategies and barriers. The responses from the survey and focus groups were thematically analysed. Results: In total, 88% of all participants surveyed agreed that there was a relationship between sitting time and their health. The most prominent theme identified was musculoskeletal complaints followed by general health and weight gain or obesity. The focus groups identified that interventions targeting reducing sitting time should include education, supportive and knowledgeable managers, and a variety of behaviour change strategies to address individual preferences and barriers. Conclusion: Multiple behavioural strategies were identified, which appear to be appropriate for sedentary behaviour change.

scholarly journals Why Ecological Footprint Calculators Should Move beyond Information Provision – An Empirical Study of the Relationship between Environmental Knowledge and Ecological Footprint

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne L. Kok ◽  
Wolmet Barendregt
Keyword(s):  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Information Provision ◽  
Climate Impact ◽  
Exploratory Analysis ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Change Strategies ◽  
Environmental Behaviour ◽  
The Relationship

Ecological footprint calculators are digital tools that help individuals calculate their environmental or climate impact, with the aim of stimulating pro-environmental behaviour change. These footprint calculators typically take an information-provision approach, but this strategy assumes that increased levels of knowledge result in increased levels of pro-environmental behaviour (i.e., a reduced footprint). This is not a given – existing literature on the relationship between environmental knowledge and pro-environmental behaviour is inconclusive, and this relationship may be different from that of environmental knowledge and ecological footprint. As such, we investigated the relationship between environmental knowledge and ecological footprint as estimated by a footprint calculator. 448 Dutch participants completed an online survey, including an ecological footprint calculator. We found no evidence for a relationship between environmental knowledge and ecological footprint calculator outcome. Rather, an exploratory analysis of our data showed that environmental values were more important predictors of ecological footprint. The finding that increased levels of knowledge are not related to a reduced ecological footprint suggests that calculators would do well to move beyond information provision, and employ additional behaviour change strategies. Based on our exploratory analysis, we provide several concrete examples of potential strategies.

scholarly journals The influence of transport offer on passenger traffic in the railway transport system in a post-socialist country: case study of Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (53) ◽  
pp. 33-42
Author(s):  
Wojciech Jurkowski ◽  
Mateusz Smolarski
Keyword(s):  
Socialist Country ◽  
Spatial Diversity ◽  
Railway Transport ◽  
Passenger Traffic ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Country Case Study ◽  
Weighted Number ◽  
Spatial Terms ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The study examines factors influencing the number of rail passengers in Poland. The subjects of observation were 62 cities with poviat rights. The main factors influencing demand are the number of connections and the speed of trains. Therefore, we developed an original indicator – weighted number of connections, which takes into account the number of rail connections and the speed of trains. The article can be divided into two main parts: an assessment of the diversification of transport offer and transport demand in spatial terms, and an evaluation of the relationship between the variables. Poland has a large spatial diversity in terms of public rail transport offer and passenger traffic. There are three levels of city hierarchy according to the passenger number indicator: [1] Warsaw, [2] the largest agglomerations [3] other regional cities. Transport offer was found to have a statistically significant impact on transport demand.

scholarly journals Behaviour Change for Open Science

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Norris ◽  
Daryl Brian O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Intervention Development ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Barriers And Facilitators ◽  
Change Strategies ◽  
Behaviour Change Wheel ◽  
Change Principles

This Editorial presents a discussion of behaviour change strategies that could be used to increase uptake of Open Science behaviours. It explores what we mean by behaviour in Open Science, barriers and facilitators of Open Science behaviours and the potential for intervention development using behaviour change principles using a case-study of the Behaviour Change Wheel.

The Place of the Dog in the Family

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Cora Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Animal Shelter ◽  
Adoptive Families ◽  
The Family ◽  
Animal Rescue ◽  
The Relationship

This paper explores how perspectives on the appropriate place of the dog in the family shape the practice and experience of dog adoption. This research is based on a comparative case study of a traditional shelter and an independent animal rescue organization. The data were collected through participant observation and interviews with directors and volunteers at these organizations, and with people who adopted dogs through shelter or independent animal rescue organizations. The independent rescue organizations tended to use “dog-centric” discourse to describe the relationship between the dog and its prospective family, while the traditional animal shelter and some adoptive families used “human-centric” discourse. These perspectives were tied to the adoption practices of the organizations and individuals’ experiences while adopting a dog. The implications of these findings for the practice of dog adoption are discussed, and suggestions for shelters and animal rescue organizations are presented.

scholarly journals Employee Compensation a Panacea for Increasing Workers Productivity: A Case Study of Benin Owena River Basin Development Authority

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-37
Author(s):  
Adedeji Adebola Daramola
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Organizational Effectiveness ◽  
Motivational Factors ◽  
Monetary Incentives ◽  
Basin Development ◽  
River Basin Development ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Increase Productivity ◽  
The Relationship

Employees are a company's livelihood. How they feel about the work they are doing and the results received from that work directly impact an organization's performance and, ultimately, its stability. An unstable organization ultimately underperforms. The study had the following objectives: to establish the relationship between motivation and higher productivity among workers, to find out any relationship between motivational factors and work of staff and to determine how incentives influence workers approach to work and their performance. To achieve these goals, a questionnaire was designed based on the objectives. The completed questionnaires were processed and analyzed using the Simple Percentage. The findings of this study revealed that alongside monetary incentives, another key factor in motivating employees is to involve them in the process aimed at attaining organizational effectiveness because without their co-operation and support a great deal of managerial energy may be wasted. The study concluded that efforts should be aimed at motivating staff of all levels in order to increase productivity for higher returns. This study revealed that the higher motivation of workers leads to increasing productivity in BORBDA.

scholarly journals Reducing the Outflow of CBRN Soldiers from the Perspective of Motivation

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-19
Author(s):  
Attila Csóka
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Psychological Factor ◽  
Motivational Factors ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Mass Outflow ◽  
The Relationship

Outflow itself and the turnover of personnel are natural phenomena and occur in any organisation. The motivational factors influencing outflow can be classified as financial, medical and psychological factors. Compared with the two other factors, the psychological factor is the most complex one. In the research, the author examined these psychological factors among the soldiers of the HDF 93rd CBRN Battalion in 2008 and in 2018 and compared the differences. The author also analysed the relationship between salary-motivated outflow and age, defining a key amount that should be taken into consideration in order to prevent the mass outflow.

scholarly journals Knowledge, attitude and practices pertaining to healthy lifestyle in prevention and control of chronic diseases: a rapid review

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 5106
Author(s):  
Saba Naaz
Keyword(s):  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Rapid Review ◽  
Change Strategies ◽  
Awareness Campaigns ◽  
Unhealthy Diet ◽  
Epistemological Analysis ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Relationship

With the emergence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), healthy lifestyle has become critical to not only reduce the burden of NCDs, but also to prevent complications and severity of these diseases. Knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) pertaining to healthy lifestyle play an important role in determining the occurrence and progress of NCDs. KAP elements are interrelated and dependent on each other. While awareness campaigns provide necessary information to people on healthy lifestyle, how well this information is utilised is a grey area. The objective of this rapid review is to understand the relationship between KAP elements pertaining to healthy lifestyle among individuals who are at risk of developing NCDs and those who are living with NCDs. For this purpose, a rapid review of articles available on Google scholar and Pubmed was conducted. Articles focusing on KAP elements pertaining to healthy lifestyle from the year 2015-2021 were reviewed. Findings from the reviewed studies suggested that people have knowledge about the harmful effects of unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, tobacco and alcohol. People have a positive attitude towards healthy lifestyle, however, being knowledgeable and having a positive attitude did not translate into practicing healthy lifestyle due to multiple barriers to translate existing knowledge into practice. Since practice scores are poor among people, existing behaviour change strategies must be re-examined. An epistemological analysis of existing human behaviour with identified barriers and facilitators to adopt healthy lifestyle can help in formulating sustainable and effective social and behaviour change interventions.

scholarly journals Factors Influencing the Willingness of Dairy Farmers to Adopt Biogas Plants: A Case Study in Hokkaido, Japan

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7809
Author(s):  
Atsushi Shimahata ◽  
Mohamed Farghali ◽  
Masahiko Fujii
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Multivariate Analyses ◽  
Dairy Farmers ◽  
Local Economies ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Financial Investments ◽  
Willingness To Adopt ◽  
Biogas Plants ◽  
The Relationship

Intensification of the livestock industry has become environmentally problematic due to the uncontrolled treatment of large amounts of watery manure. One solution is the adoption of biogas plants (BGPs). Hokkaido, Japan, has significant potential for BGP adoption, however, the large financial investments and lack of grid space for selling electricity are barriers. We investigated the relationship between the willingness of farmers to adopt BGPs and their current farming situations. Using a questionnaire survey and multivariate analyses, the results showed that large-scale farmers, particularly those with more than 100 mature cows, were clearly willing to adopt BGPs and expand their businesses in the future, while farmers who planned to downsize their businesses did not exhibit strong willingness to adopt BGPs. In addition, farmers willing to adopt BGPs thought the plants would help solve problems with manure treatment. BGPs might be more accepted by dairy farmers if there were greater incentives for installation given the role BGPs can play in providing stable energy and revitalizing local economies.

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