Knowledge and the Prediction of Behavior: The Role of Information Accuracy in the Theory of Planned Behavior

Ajzen, Icek; Joyce, Nicholas; Sheikh, Sana; Cote, Nicole Gilbert

doi:10.1080/01973533.2011.568834

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“…Some of this disconnect may be due to a lack of Bmeasurement correspondence^between general attitudes and specific behaviors. As Ajzen et al (2011) highlight, we would expect more general attitudes to correlate less with specific environmental behaviors than when compared to more specific attitudes on specific behaviors (e.g., attitudes about recycling will be more highly correlated with recycling behavior compared to overall support for general environmental policy). Whitmarsh et al (2011) similarly find a disconnect between behavior and both attitudes and knowledge.…”

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Local is not always better: the impact of climate information on values, behavior and policy support

Schoenefeld

McCauley

2015

J Environ Stud Sci

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In the current research, we experimentally examined the effect of providing local or global information about the impacts of climate change on individuals' perceived importance of climate change and on their willingness to take action to address it, including policy support. We examined these relationships in the context of individuals' general value orientations. Our findings, from 99 US residents, suggest that different kinds of climate information (local, global, or none) interact with values vis-à-vis our dependent variables. Specifically, while self-transcendent values predict perceived importance and pro-environmental behavior across all three information conditions, the effect on policy support is less clear. Furthermore, we detected a Breactance effect^where individuals with self-enhancing values who read local information thought that climate change was less important and were less willing to engage in pro-environmental behavior and support policy than self-enhancing individuals in the other information conditions. These results suggest that policy makers and public communicators may want to be cognizant of their audience's general value orientation. Local information may not only be ineffective but may also prove counterproductive with individuals whose value orientations are more self-enhancing than self-transcendent.

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Local is not always better: the impact of climate information on values, behavior and policy support

Schoenefeld

McCauley

2015

J Environ Stud Sci

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“…accurate) financial knowledge relates to more saving (Babiarz and Robb 2013;Mahdzan and Tabiani 2013), it only explains modest amounts of variance in self-reported financial behaviours (Lusardi 2008;Lusardi and Mitchell 2005). Furthermore, knowledge about behaviour has little to do with actually performing it (Ajzen et al 2011). Subjective knowledge, however, has a greater impact on behaviour (Lusardi, Keller, and Keller 2009;Wang 2009;Xiao et al 2011).…”

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“…First, a broad attitude might not be a good predictor of behaviour. Attitude can, after all, measure general knowledge instead of predicting a particular, personal intention (Ajzen et al 2011). Second, risks are approached differently per domain (Nicholson et al 2005;Weber, Blais, and Betz 2002), with for example investment risk propensity unrelated to recreational risk propensity but correlating positively with social risk propensity (Markiewicz and Weber 2013), implying that attitude towards risk affects different domain-specific intentions.…”

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Psychological determinants of financial buffer saving: the influence of financial risk tolerance and regulatory focus

Magendans

Gutteling

Zebel

2016

Journal of Risk Research

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With governments redistributing more responsibilities unto citizens, individuals have an increasing need for financial resources acting as a buffer against life's setbacks and unexpected expenditures. The purpose of this study was to examine psychological determinants of saving for a financial buffer, for which a theoretical model was formulated based on the theory of planned behaviour with three new, domain-specific psychological constructs: financial risk tolerance, regulatory focus and perceived saving barriers. Data were collected with an online questionnaire that utilised convenience and snowball sampling to target both students and working individuals (N = 272). Regression analyses offered support for the proposed model, showing that participants' financial risk tolerance (i.e. an individual's attitude towards financial risk taking) was significantly associated with their subjective financial knowledge and regulatory focus. Furthermore, perceived financial self-efficacy and financial risk tolerance both predicted participants' intention to save for a financial buffer. In turn, perceived financial selfefficacy and saving intention predicted self-reported saving behaviour. Importantly, perceived saving barriers mediated the relationship between saving intention and self-reported saving behaviour. In line with the proposed model, results also showed that a specific attitude-based construct (financial risk tolerance) is a considerably better predictor of saving intention than general measures of attitude towards saving. This study is also the first to demonstrate that regulatory focus influences financial risk tolerance. Implications of these findings for stimulating saving behaviour are discussed.

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“…TAX GENERAL KNOWLEDGE Ajzen et al (2011) finnd that knowledge on a specific issue can affect behavior related to that specific issue either positively or negatively depending upon the accuracy of the knowledge concerning the specific issue. The change from the Formal Assessment System (FAS) to the Self Assessment System (SAS) creates a new requirement on the part of taxpayers to have enough and appropriate knowledge of the tax law.…”

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Factors Influencing E-Filing Usage Among Malaysian Taxpayers: Does Tax Knowledge Matters?

Tallaha¹,

Shukor²,

Hassan³

2014

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Knowledge and the Prediction of Behavior: The Role of Information Accuracy in the Theory of Planned Behavior

Cited by 546 publications

References 32 publications

Local is not always better: the impact of climate information on values, behavior and policy support

Local is not always better: the impact of climate information on values, behavior and policy support

Psychological determinants of financial buffer saving: the influence of financial risk tolerance and regulatory focus

Factors Influencing E-Filing Usage Among Malaysian Taxpayers: Does Tax Knowledge Matters?

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