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DARWISH, JILLIAN COPPLEY. "CHANGES IN THE ATTITUDE, KNOWLEDGE AND BEHAVIOR OF BEGINNING TEACHERS ENGAGED IN A REFLECTIVE MENTOR RELATIONSHIP." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1005686100.
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Guffler, Kerstin [Verfasser], and Ulrich [Akademischer Betreuer] Wagner. "Contact Interventions in Intractable Conflicts: Long-Term Attitude and Behavior Intention Changes in Israel / Kerstin Guffler ; Betreuer: Ulrich Wagner." Marburg : Philipps-Universität Marburg, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1169312055/34.
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Tolvanen, M. (Mimmi). "Changes in adolescents’ oral health-related knowledge, attitudes and behavior in response to extensive health promotion." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2011. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789514295959.
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Abstract The aim of this study was to evaluate changes and interrelationships of oral health-related knowledge, attitudes and behavior between the ages of 11 and 16 during a randomized clinical trial (RCT) for controlling caries and a program of oral health promotion (OHP). The study population consisted of all 5th and 6th graders who started the 2001−2002 school year in Pori (n=1691) and Rauma (n=807), Finland. In Pori, children were exposed for 3.4 years either to both the RCT experimental regimen and the OHP, or only to the OHP. Children in Rauma acted as reference group. Questionnaire data on children’s knowledge, attitudes and behavior were gathered before, in the middle and after the follow-up. Changes in children’s knowledge, attitudes and behavior were compared according to the interventions to which they were exposed. Individual changes in knowledge, attitudes and behavior were evaluated. The hypothesized model that knowledge affects behavior directly and via attitudes was tested using structural equation modeling (SEM). The children who were exposed to both the RCT experimental regimen and OHP tended to improve their behaviors the most, those exposed to OHP the second most, and those in the reference group least. In knowledge and attitudes, no similar differences between groups were observed. Over half of the children had stable behaviors throughout the study. Those children whose behaviors changed were more likely to improve than to worsen them. Good baseline behavior tended to help in recovering from lapses to poor behaviors and maintaining the achieved good behavior. Among the same children, all three, knowledge, attitudes and behavior, tended to improve. Knowledge influenced behavior directly and via two interrelated attitudes, and it had smaller effect on behavior than on attitudes. Concern about developing caries lesions was a background factor. The experimental regimen of the RCT and the OHP were successful, and OHP enhanced the effectiveness of the RCT. In childhood, behaviors are rather stable. If healthy behaviors are learned young, lapses into poor behaviors are likely be temporary rather than permanent. Children are ready for change at different times, so OHP’s should be continuous processes instead of short-term interventions. Changes in knowledge, attitudes and behavior are related<br>Tiivistelmä Tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli selvittää suun terveyteen liittyvän tiedon, asenteiden ja tapojen muutosta ja keskinäisiä suhteita 11 ja 16 ikävuoden välillä karieksen hallintaan liittyvän satunnaistetun kliinisen kokeen ja suunterveyskampanjan aikana. Tutkimusjoukon muodostivat 5. ja 6. luokkalaiset lapset Porissa (n=1691) ja Raumalla (n=807) lukuvuonna 2001–2002. Porissa lapset osallistuivat joko 3,4-vuotiseen terveyskampanjaan tai sekä kampanjaan että kliinisen kokeen hoito-ohjelmaan. Raumalaiset lapset toimivat vertailuryhmänä. Kyselyaineisto kerättiin ennen, puolessa välissä ja jälkeen kliinisen kokeen ja terveyskampanjan. Tutkimuksessa verrattiin eri interventioiden vaikutusta lasten tiedon, asenteiden ja tapojen muutokseen. Yksilöllisiä muutoksia tiedossa, asenteissa ja tavoissa selvitettiin. Oletettua mallia, jossa tieto vaikuttaa tapoihin suoraan ja asenteiden kautta, testattiin rakenneyhtälömallituksen avulla. Sekä kliiniseen kokeeseen että kampanjaan osallistuneet lapset onnistuivat tapojen parantamisessa parhaiten, vain kampanjaan osallistuneet toiseksi parhaiten ja vertailuryhmän lapset huonoiten. Tiedossa ja asenteissa samanlaisia ryhmäeroja ei havaittu. Yli puolella lapsista oli muuttumattomat tavat koko seurannan ajan. Lapset, jotka muuttivat tapojaan, todennäköisemmin paransivat kuin huononsivat niitä. Lapset, joilla oli alussa hyvät tavat, todennäköisesti onnistuivat huonoon tapaan lipsahtamisen jälkeen parantamaan tapansa ja säilyttämään saavutetun hyvän tavan. Yleensä ottaen samat lapset paransivat sekä tietoa, asenteita että tapoja. Tieto vaikutti tapaan suoraan ja kahden toisiinsa yhteydessä olevan asenteen kautta. Tieto vaikutti enemmän asenteisiin kuin tapaan. Harmi reikiintymisestä oli taustatekijä. Kliinisen kokeen hoito-ohjelma ja terveyskampanja olivat onnistuneita, ja terveyskampanja tehosti hoito-ohjelman vaikuttavuutta. Lapsuudessa tavat ovat melko pysyviä. Jos terveelliset tavat opitaan jo nuorena, lipsahdukset huonoihin tapoihin ovat todennäköisemmin väliaikaisia kuin pysyviä. Lapset ovat valmiita muutokselle eri aikoina, joten kampanjoiden pitäisi olla jatkuvia prosesseja eikä lyhytaikaisia interventioita. Muutokset tiedossa, asenteissa ja tavoissa ovat yhteydessä toisiinsa, mikä tukee teorioita tiedon, asenteiden ja tapojen kausaalisesta ketjusta
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Teeranee, Techasrivichien. "Changes in Sexual Behavior and Attitudes across Generations and Gender among a Population-Based Probability Sample from an Urbanizing Province in Thailand." Kyoto University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/195965.
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Final publication is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0429-5. Teeranee Techasrivichien, Niphon Darawuttimaprakorn, Sureeporn Punpuing, Patou Masika Musumari, Bhekumusa Wellington Lukhele, Christina El-saaidi, S. Pilar Suguimoto, Mitchell D. Feldman, Masako Ono-Kihara, Masahiro Kihara "Changes in Sexual Behavior and Attitudes Across Generations and Gender Among a Population-Based Probability Sample From an Urbanizing Province in Thailand" Archives of Sexual Behavior 2014.<br>Kyoto University (京都大学)<br>0048<br>新制・課程博士<br>博士(医学)<br>甲第18679号<br>医博第3951号<br>新制||医||1007(附属図書館)<br>31612<br>京都大学大学院医学研究科医学専攻<br>(主査)教授 中山 健夫, 教授 福原 俊一, 教授 中原 俊隆<br>学位規則第4条第1項該当
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Luke, Vance Hopfner Jr. "Evaluation of a math/science inservice based upon participants' perceived changes in attitude and behavior relative to prescribed goals and process components." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184579.
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a short-term math/science inservice based upon the participants' perceived changes in attitude and behavior relevant to the projects' goals and objectives. One hundred and three elementary school teachers from twelve schools in an urban school district participated in the inservice. The treatments were administered during two eight hour days, one month apart. The project was designed to improve the participants' attitude and behavior relevant to ten goals that centered around increasing awareness and use of science process and math problem solving approaches to teaching. The evaluation instrument was a pre- and post-treatment survey. Seventy questions were created and apportioned to test twenty hypotheses. Two hypotheses were tested to determine the achievement of each goal. One hypothesis tested the teachers' perceived change in attitude and the other tested the teachers' perceived change in teaching behavior relevant to a specific goal. Goal achievement was determined by comparing changes (significant at the.05 level) in attitude and behavior. All ten attitude hypotheses indicated a significant positive change occurred in attitude. None of the behavior hypotheses showed a significant positive change. It was determined that the inservice was totally effective in changing the teachers' attitude, relevant to the goals, but it failed to make a positive impact upon the teachers' perceptions of their actual practice in the classroom. It was speculated that the failure to affect behavior change was a result of one or a combination of the following four factors: insufficient time lapse to affect behavior, more accurate reporting on the post test, retrenchment resulting from feelings of inadequacy, and fear of venturing out alone primarily due to the lack of organizational development. Suggestions for improving the inservice were based upon proposed remedies for the above four factors.
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Tam, Lap-yan, and 譚立寅. "Effectiveness of adolescent sex education program for knowledge, attitudes or behavioral changes towards sexual risky behavior in Asiancountries: a systematic review." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B48425539.
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Unsafe sexual behavior among teenagers and young adults would have critical personal impact as well as social and economic burden to the society. The major negative consequences of unsafe sexual behavior were the unwanted teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). In recent decade, different types of adolescent sex education programs were developed in order to safeguard adolescents’ health and relieve the public health burden resulting from the negative consequences of unintended teenage pregnancy and STDs; and different studies were published to evaluate the effectiveness of the adolescent sex education programs in the Asian countries. In this systematic review, 15 studies evaluating the effectiveness of adolescent sex education programs from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Thailand and Vietnam, were identified. The adolescent sex education program was an effective approach for increasing the knowledge towards HIV/AIDS; some of them were also beneficial on improving the refusal skills towards sexual appeal or knowledge, efficacy or attitude in condom use. Nevertheless, due to the difference of study designs, sample size and outcome variables across studies, it is difficult to give an overall result in this review. i<br>published_or_final_version<br>Public Health<br>Master<br>Master of Public Health
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Amy, Ryan A. "Online Course Management System for WIC Nutrition Education and Study of Its Effectiveness in Behavioral and Attitude Changes." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2014. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3962.
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Social media has been used in a variety of contexts to connect people of varying backgrounds and as a method of teaching. This thesis collaborated with the Utah County Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) department to develop an online course management system that facilitated research to evaluate the effectiveness of social media on nutrition behavior and attitude changes among WIC clients. We created a toddler themed Facebook page in conjunction with the online nutrition classes and provided the opportunity for clients to use them. Previous social media research used individuals that had agreed to participate in the social media experiment whereas this research let them choose whether or not to participate. The Facebook intervention proved ineffective. In response, we developed surveys to gather the criteria and strategies from WIC clients and existing WIC themed Facebook pages that could be used for a best-case social media intervention.
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Volkova, Olga. "Changes in attitude and self-reported smoking behavior of youth with different social economic status pre-and-post implementation of WHO tobacco control policies in Ukraine during 2005-2011." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1471539193.
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Rikner, Amanda. "Faktorer som förklarar miljövänligt beteende hos unga vuxna." Thesis, Örebro University, School of Law, Psychology and Social Work, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-7544.
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<p><em>Människors miljörelaterade beteenden behöver förbättras. I studien undersöktes unga vuxna universitetsstuderandes syn på klimatproblematiken. En enkät delades ut som mätte miljövänligt beteende, ansvarskänsla, tillit till forskning, upplevelse av att kunna påverka och kunskap när det gäller klimatproblematiken. Deltagarna fick också beskriva anledningar som möjliggör eller förhindrar en förbättring av klimatproblematiken. Deltog gjorde 97 personer. Resultatet visade på signifikanta samband mellan å ena sidan ansvarskänsla, tillit, påverkansmöjlighet samt kunskap, och å andra sidan miljövänligt beteende. Ansvar och kunskap var signifikanta prediktorer för miljövänligt beteende. Deltagarna var överens om vilka anledningar som möjliggör och vilka som förhindrar en förbättring av klimatproblematiken. Ovanstående faktorer kan till viss del förklara miljövänligt beteende. </em></p><br><p>People’s environmentally related behavior must improve. This study mirrors the views of young university students regarding climate change. Students responded to a questionnaire measuring environmental behavior, the sense of responsibility, faith in research and the ability to influence as well as knowledge of climate change issues. The participants, 97 in all, were also asked to describe reasons for or against facilitating improvements regarding climate problems. The results revealed significant relations between on one hand responsibility, trust, opportunities to influence and knowledge, and on the other hand pro-environmental behavior. Responsibility and knowledge were significant predictors of pro-environmental behavior. The participants agreed on what reasons improve and what inhibits climate problems. The factors above explain to a certain extent pro-environmental behavior.</p>
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Karlsson, Sandra, and Alexandra Lindström. "Is knowledge enough? : A qualitative study investigating the knowledge-action gap of environmental science students." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Miljöförändring, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-167185.
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In order to slow down, if not stop, climate change, we all need to contribute to reducing our greenhouse gas emissions. This knowledge has been with us for a long time, but nevertheless emissions have not decreased, but rather increased. To understand the reason why we don't act in line with what we know, we need to study behaviors. In this paper we focus on behaviors at the individual level. The gap that exists between what we know and what we do has many names where it is studied from different perspectives, and to understand what creates this gap is very complex. There is therefore not just one answer to this question and many different complementary theories and models are needed. The majority of the studies carried out on the subject examine perceptionsof the gap among people without higher education in environmental science, which has contributed to knowledge being, in many cases,seen as one of the main contributing factors to inaction.In our study, we want to contribute with a perspective on the gapin people who already have a higher education in environmental science. We conducted a qualitative study with three focus group interviews with environmental science students at Linköping University. The results show that, despite higher education and knowledge, there are variousindividual, structural and responsibility factors thathinder individuals fromactingenvironmentally friendly. Throughout the analysis the situational aspect comes into play and that knowledge of the complexity of environmental and climate issues can in many cases contribute to inaction.<br>För att kunna bromsa, om inte stoppa, klimatförändringarna behöver vi alla bidra till att minska våra växthusgasutsläpp. Denna vetskap har funnits med oss länge, men trots det har inte utsläppen minskat utan snarare ökat. För att förstå orsaken till varför vi inte agerar i linje med vad vi vet behöver vi studera beteenden. I denna uppsats fokuserar vi på beteenden på individnivå. Det gap som finns mellan vad vi vet och vad vi gör har många namn (e.g. value-action gap, attitude-behavior gap) där man studerar det utifrån olika perspektiv. Att förstå vad som skapar detta gap är mycket komplext. Det finns därmed inte ett rätt svar på denna fråga utan det behövs många olika kompletterande teorier och modeller. Majoriteten av de studier som gjorts undersöker uppfattningar om gapet hos personer utan högre utbildning inom miljövetenskap. Vilket har bidragit till att bristande kunskap i många fall setts som en av de största bidragande faktorerna till overksamhet. Vi vill därmed i vår studie bidra med ett perspektiv på gapet utifrån personer som redan har en högre utbildning inom miljövetenskap, och kallar således gapet för knowledge-action gap. Vi genomförde en kvalitativ studie med tre fokusgruppsintervjuer med miljövetarstudenter från Linköpings universitet. Resultatet visar på att det, trots en högre utbildning och kunskap, finns många olika, individuella, strukturella och ansvarsrelaterade, faktorer som gör att en individ inte agerar miljövänligt. Genomgående i analysen för dessa är att den situationella aspekten spelar in samt att kunskapen om miljö-och klimatfrågans komplexitet i många fall kan bidra till overksamhet.
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Leandersson, Ebba. "Implementeringen av utbildning för hållbar utveckling i svensk grundskolas läroplan : En intervjustudie om hur implementeringen ser ut och fungerar i praktiken, ur lärarnas perspektiv." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-44048.
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Utbildning för hållbar utveckling är en oumbärlig komponent för att nästkommande generation ska kunna utveckla kompetenser och färdigheter för att hantera och förebygga de klimatförändringar och miljöproblem vi människor står inför. Skolan anses vara den mest avgörande platsen när det gäller att inspirera, motivera och utbilda miljömedvetna individer. I svensk grundskola är hållbar utveckling inskrivet i läroplanen och skall genomsyra all undervisning sedan 2006. Forskare har dock visat att många lärare saknar kompetenser och självförtroende för att undervisa om hållbar utveckling, alternativt är instruktioner och begrepp för otydliga och komplexa, vilket resulterar i en bristfällig implementering. Tidigare forskning indikerar att det saknas vägledning för hur hållbar utveckling skall implementeras i undervisningen rent praktiskt, eller att de styrdokument som finns behöver uppdateras. Med denna problematik till grund gjordes en intervjustudie där tre lärare och fyra lärarstudenter på grundskolenivå intervjuades för att besvara frågeställningarna och identifiera förbättringspotential och eventuellt kunna föreslå åtgärder för framtiden. Resultaten ställdes emot teorin Dewey’s notion of learning, experience and habits i syfte att bland annat besvara frågan kring vilka metoder och strategier som är de mest effektiva för att forma medvetna individer och i förlängningen skapa hållbara städer och samhällen. Intervjustudiens svarsanalys indikerade att det som tidigare forskare påvisat, att implementeringen är bristfällig och behöver ses över, med ett utökat helhetsperspektiv.<br>Education for sustainable development is an indispensable component to provide the coming generations with competencies and skills to cope with and prevent the sustainability issues todays’ communities are facing. Schools are one of the most crucial determinators when it comes to inspire, motivate and educate environmentally conscious individuals. Sustainable development is a part of the Swedish curriculum since 2006. However, studies on the field show that teachers are lacking competencies and confidence to educate on sustainable development, or that the guidelines and the topic is too vague and complex, which corresponds with an inadequate implementation. Current studies on the field indicate that guidance for an effective implementation is needed, or that the guidelines that exist need an update. With these identified problems, an interview study was conducted, three primary teachers and four students in the teachers’ program participated to answer the questions and identify potential for improvement and potentially give suggestions for future changes. The findings were used together with the theory Dewey’s notion of learning, experience and habits, with the aim to answer the question of which teaching methods and strategies are the most effective to form conscious individuals and eventually create sustainable cities and communities. The interview study confirmed what previous researchers have shown, that the implementation is inadequate and needs to be reviewed and updated with a holistic perspective.<br><p>-</p>
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Bothorel, Grégoire. "The influence of brands’ omni-channel strategy on consumer’s behavior." Thesis, Paris 1, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020PA01E031.
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Cette thèse étudie la communication omni-canal et vise à comprendre les effets de l’activation d’un canal de communication supplémentaire auprès d’un client connecté. Trois essais complémentaires étudient respectivement (I) l’impact marginal d’un canal de communication supplémentaire, (II) l’orchestration des canaux de communication dans un parcours client connecté et (III) l’hétérogénéité des réponses d’un portefeuille de clients. Ces essais sont construits sur des designs expérimentaux à grande échelle qui combinent des canaux traditionnels, numériques et mobiles (email, SMS, courrier et bannières en RTB). L’influence d’un canal de communication sur le comportement d’achat du consommateur est mesurée de manière causale grâce à l’incrémentalité. L’incrémentalité permet de mesurer et d’isoler la contribution réelle de chaque canal à la réponse comportementale du consommateur dans son processus décisionnel. Ce travail doctoral montre que l’activation d’un canal supplémentaire génère un incrément significatif de conversions online et offline et permet par ailleurs de comprendre l’origine de cet incrément de conversions. Au-delà d’enrichir la compréhension des modèles de communication à l’ère des canaux numériques, mobiles et programmatiques, cette thèse met en lumière les impacts d’un canal sur les parcours clients et la forte hétérogénéité des réponses comportementales d’un portefeuille de clients. Elle identifie également les sources de synergie entre les canaux et démontre le rôle clé de l’orchestration omni-canal pour tirer profit du potentiel de certains clients<br>This thesis studies omni-channel communication and aims at understanding the effects of activating an additional communication channel towards a connected customer. Three complementary essays respectively study (I) the marginal impact of an additional communication channel, (II) the orchestration of communication channels in a connected customer journey and (III) the heterogeneity of responses across a customer portfolio. These essays are based on large-scale field experiments combining traditional, digital and mobile channels (email, SMS, mail and RTB display). The influence of a communication channel on consumer purchasing behavior is measured causally through incrementality. Incrementality makes it possible to measure and isolate the effective contribution of each channel to the consumer's behavioral response in his decision-making process. This doctoral work demonstrates that the activation of an additional channel generates a significant uplift of online and offline conversions and provides an understanding of the source of this uplift of conversions. Beyond deepening the comprehension of communication models in the era of digital, mobile and programmatic channels, this thesis highlights the impacts of a channel on customers' journeys and the strong heterogeneity of the behavioral responses of a customer portfolio. It also identifies the sources of synergy between channels and demonstrates the key role of omni-channel orchestration in leveraging the value potential of specific customers
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Schildt, William C. "A study of changes in behavior and attitudes with regard to bullying through the development and implementation of a bully-proofing program." Online version, 2002. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2002/2002schildtw.pdf.
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Fetherolf, Lindsay. "Environmental Attitudes, Behavior and the Gaps In Between: A Study of College Students and Green Identity." Wittenberg University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1617885985879573.
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Hofmann, Anna Theresa. "Design for change : Generation Y consumers' perception of sustainability in the fast fashion industry." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Fakulteten för ekonomi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-19629.
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Research Questions: “What knowledge do Generation Y consumers’ have about sustainability in the fast fashion industry?” and “How do the factors of the attitude-behavior gap influence the Generation Y consumers in their decision making for fast fashion clothes?” Problem Formulation: Sustainability as a topic has regained great attention over the last couple of years. Generation Y consumers’ demand for more sustainable actions, especially in fast fashion, puts increasing pressure on the industry. As the biggest consumer cohort, it is important for fast fashion companies to meet their needs and demands for more sustainable actions to stay competitive. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to explore the perception of sustainability of Generation Y consumers’ in the fast fashion industry by looking at eight factors that influence the attitude-behavior gap, namely Price Sensitivity, Ethical Obligation, Lack of Information, Subjective Norm, Quality, Inertia, Cynicism and Guilt. Additionally, the previous knowledge about sustainability in the fast fashion industry of this generation will be investigated by using the triple-bottom line approach of economic, environmental and social aspects. Methodology: This thesis utilized a qualitative methodology by conducting semi-structured interviews. The research consists of 6 participants from the Generation Y. The interviews were performed personally face-to-face. Findings/Conclusions: The findings indicate that the factors of the attitude-behavior gap still influence Generation Y consumers’ in their purchase decisions for fast fashion brands. They are more hesitant to invest in acquiring clothes from fast fashion retailers, as they see them as violating to the society and the environment. Therefore, Generation Y consumers would rather purchase sustainable clothes from sustainable companies that are behaving and producing their clothes in a right, sustainable and ethical way. Hence, their attitude indicates to be similar to their potential purchasing behavior. Furthermore, Generation Y consumers’ hold a broad, detailed knowledge about sustainability of all three parts of the triple bottom line.
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Lundström, Justus, Jonas Widriksson, and Viktor Zaunders. "Changes in media consumption and file sharing : The impact of legislation and new digital media services." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Business Informatics, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-12534.
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<p>In this study we investigate how the attitude and behaviour concerning illegal file shar-ing have changed among the young population in Sweden. The study will analyze the impact of the IPRED law that was introduced in April 2008 and new digital media ser-vices that have emerged in the last couple of years. It is also evaluated which of these have had the most impact on the attitude and behaviour of the selected population.</p><p>The main part of our research consists of a quantitative survey handed out to a sample population among high school students (ages 16-20) in Jönköping, Sweden. This pri-mary data is later compared to secondary data from a similar study that was done on the same demographics two years prior to this research in order to measure the change in behaviour and attitude. The previous study was conducted prior to the IPRED law im-plementation by one of the authors. We also used prior research within this subject and related fields to further understand and interpret our data.</p><p>What we have discovered through our research is that there has been a decrease in ille-gal file sharing, especially when considering music, however this decrease is much more an effect of the adopting of new media services then it can be attributed to the IPRED law. Furthermore, the attitudes towards file sharing have remained unchanged and a large number of young adults do not feel that file sharing should be illegal.</p><p>It is also concluded that good legal alternatives to file sharing have a large market po-tential if these services can fulfil consumers demand on availability and price. Addition-ally we have found that good legal alternatives are important if the public is to refrain from returning to their old file sharing habits once the initial scare from new legislation has worn off.</p>
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McCann, Melissa. "Social marketing : a theory based approach to influencing attitude and behavior change toward mental health among African American students at the University of Texas at Austin." The University of Texas at Austin, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/4018.
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Street, Jalika C. "Predicting Ecological Behavior in the Era of Climate Change." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/psych_theses/84.
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The most devastating effects of climate change may be avoided if humans reduce activities that produce greenhouse gases and engage instead in more sustainable ecological behaviors. The current mixed methods study of 279 undergraduate students explored whether environmental worldview, belief in climate change, knowledge of climate change, personal efficacy, and intention to address climate change influenced participants’ engagement in ecological behavior. Results indicated that those with a stronger intention to address climate change and a more ecocentric worldview reported significantly more ecological behavior. Next, the study examined whether participants’ intentions to address climate change mediated the relationship between their belief in climate change and engagement in ecological behavior and whether intentions mediated the relationship between efficacy and ecological behavior. Intentions to address climate change did not mediate the relationship between belief and ecological behavior but fully mediated the relationship between efficacy to address climate change and ecological behavior.
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Diedring, Kelly. "Framing Environmental Messages: Examining Audience Response to Humor, Shock, and Emotional Treatments." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002349.
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Lewis, Shawn Thomas. "Individual Differences in Perceptions of Health-Related Behaviors." UNF Digital Commons, 2012. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/349.
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When provided an opportunity for thought, individuals experience a strengthening of their already moderate attitude toward some attitude object. This process was studied in the context of variables – attitudes toward behavior, norms about behavior, and perceived behavioral control – known to predict intentions to engage in health-related behavior. A potential moderator of this process – locus of control beliefs – was also investigated. In this study, 195 participants indicated their attitudes toward eight health-related behaviors. Participants were randomly assigned to either a high or low opportunity for thought during which time they were asked to focus their thoughts on the health behavior getting 8 hours of sleep a night. Participants then responded to 18 items measuring Theory of Planned Behavior constructs and the 18-item Multidimensional Health Locus of Control scale. Although self-generated attitude polarization was not observed in this study, evidence was found which supports previous Theory of Planned Behavior and Multidimensional Health Locus of Control research findings. Study limitations and implications are discussed. Keywords: attitudes, attitude change, health locus of control, theory of planned behavior
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Yagnik, Arpan Shailesh. "Knowledge (K), Attitude (A), and Practice (P) of Women and Men about Menstruation and Menstrual Practices in Ahmedabad, India: Implications for Health Communication Campaigns and Interventions." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1430829910.
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White, Tom. "Climate change communications : understanding people's perceptions and evaluating the effectiveness of interventions." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/5410.
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A government-funded scheme, the UK Climate Change Communications Initiative (UKCCCI), provided money for organisations to deliver projects that attempted to impact positively on people’s attitudes towards climate change and to increase knowledge and awareness of the issue. This devolution of communications is a relatively novel approach after previous centralised campaigns. This thesis adopts a mixed-method approach; a qualitative and a quantitative study have been conducted based on three case studies of individual projects funded under the UKCCCI. The quantitative study analyses pre- and post-project surveys to assess whether the communications produced the desired changes in attitude, knowledge and awareness; results are generally mixed in relation to all three case studies as some statistics are more positive after communications, whereas some are less positive. Data from a regional UKCCCI project are compared with a nationally representative dataset; this analysis shows that attitudes, knowledge and awareness differ at regional and national scales, supporting the policy of devolving communications. Regional data are also analysed to see if there are differences between socio-demographic groups within a single target audience for communications; this analysis suggests that interventions must strike a balance between personalisation of information and the higher cost of targeting smaller groups with more specific material. The quantitative study uses conceptual content cognitive mapping (3CM) to discover the climate change-related knowledge of twenty subjects who received communications from two of the case study projects. Results suggest that people have knowledge of a wide range of issues related to climate change, but they do not possess a detailed scientific understanding. However, there is a high knowledge of how to mitigate climate change and this is expressed largely through individual actions and lifestyle choices. A template analysis was also conducted to discover what interviewees thought specifically about the communications and a range of practical recommendations are made for future projects. Implications are discussed in relation to future practical climate change communications projects, wider policy and academic research.
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Wolfe, Dianna K. "Autonomy : behavior change in nurses after continuing professional education program." Virtual Press, 1999. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1159137.
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The purpose of the study was to determine how participation in a three and one-half hour continuing professional education program (CPE) influenced the nursing practice of 51 nurses three months later. The study sample was 45 staff nurses and six nurse managers.Four variables were measured using questionnaires before, immediately after, and three months after the CPE program. The variables measured were (a)"the characteristics of continuing professional education program, (b) the characteristics of individual professional, (c) the nature of the proposed change, and (d) the social system in which the professional must implement the behavior change" (Cervero, 1985, p.87). Qualitative data were collected using open-ended statements to ascertain how the content of the CPE program was useful in practice. Nurse managers were surveyed to ascertain their judgements about autonomy and empowerment levels of the nurses.Findings revealed significant positive relationship between behavior change, autonomy, and the variables the nature of the proposed change, empowerment, and the motivational levels of the 51 nurses. Characteristics of the social system and the CPE program were not found to be significantly related to behavior change. No significant differences were found between motivation levels of participants from before the CPE to three months later.Responses to the open-ended statements revealed four themes: the importance nurses placed on meeting the needs of patients, nurses were flexible and accepted change, nurses had positive perceptions about nursing, and nurses felt frustrated and inadequate. Judgements revealed in the responses of the nurse managers before and three months after the CPE program have significant implications for nurse managers when attempting to change nursing practice.<br>Department of Educational Leadership
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Zucchini, Elena. "Students’ holiday air travel behaviors: a flyer’s dilemma." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-444564.
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Holiday air travel behaviors are nowadays a significant issue in relation to climate change and sustainable tourism. Indeed, transportation, and especially air transportation, have a significant role in climate change. Hence, it is important that the tourism industry includes the transportation sector when developing solutions for sustainable tourism. As students are the future main target group of this industry, it is important to understand the reasons behind their choices. Until now, travel behaviors have been explained using single and specific theories, which did not include many factors explaining holiday air travel decisions. In this study, this concern is addressed by combining two theories in relation to behavior formation - the theory of planned behavior and the value-belief-norm theory - in order to understand all motivations and barriers behind students’ holiday air travel behaviors. The analysis of the findings shows that many internal and external factors affect students decisions in regards to flying during holidays, including values, beliefs, social and personal norms, as well as accessibility, country of origin, price, time, distance, and social influence. However, the analysis of the results also demonstrates two gaps between attitudes and behaviors within the student community, which link to the cognitive dissonance theory: an awareness-attitude behavior gap and a contextual gap. The paper argues that while the theory of planned behavior and the value-belief-norm theory can be used simultaneously in order to analyze decisions regarding holiday air transportation, they are not sufficient as these two gaps emerged. The study concludes suggesting destination developers and national governments to take into account the present factors behind students’ decisions in order to develop sustainable destinations.
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Harris, Devian K. "The Politicization of Climate Change." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/political_science_theses/49.
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For decades, rhetoric has been utilized by both politicians and those in the scientific community to convey either support for or denial of the existence of climate change. This study combined two forms of rhetoric in the forms of both framing and politicization to determine which form of rhetoric is most powerful in influencing a person’s attitudes and behavioral intentions. Pro climate change frames are expected to increase support for climate change action, while anti climate change politicization is expected to decrease support for climate change action. The results of this study show that select frames have the intended effect of influence on increasing support for climate change measures. Surprisingly, the results also show that politicization that questions the science of climate change has the power to both increase and decrease support for attitudinal measures with regard to climate change.
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Ogami, Kelley. "Persuasion in the Health Field: Framing the Message for Attitude Change." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/837.
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The process of persuasion, the changing of a person’s attitudes, has often been applied to health communications designed to promote healthy behavior. Manipulation of aspects of the persuasive message can influence persuasion and the likelihood of attitude change. For a long time, the existing persuasion research had yet to examine how different types of message framing and intervention targets directly and in interaction with one another act as predictors of health attitude change. Therefore, this thesis addressed this lapse using an online survey to assess participants’ attitude towards the health issue of hypertension after reading a health message. This health message was manipulated in how it framed the problems of high blood pressure and how it prescribed changes in behavior to have healthy blood pressure levels. It was hypothesized that negative message framing, the interrogative verb mood and a facilitation target would have greater influence over attitude and behavioral intention compared to their alternatives. The same pattern of results was expected for elaboration save for the hypothesis that an inhibition intervention target would result in greater elaboration than a facilitation target. This thesis may further the field of psychology’s understanding of persuasion as well as help create a better informed and healthier society.
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Bert, Nicolas. "Dissonance cognitive et transformation de la représentation sociale du sport : effets du changement de la signification d'un élément central sur les attitudes et les comportements." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016AIXM3056/document.
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La théorie de l’engagement (Joule & Beauvois, 1998 ; Kiesler, 1971), associée à la théorie de la dissonance cognitive (Festinger, 1957 ; Fointiat, Girandola, & Gosling, 2013), fournit un cadre expérimental d’observation et de compréhension de certains effets des pratiques sociales sur la dynamique des représentations sociales (Abric, 1994 ; Flament, 1994 ; Guimelli, 1989). Notre travail s’inscrit dans la continuité des recherches opérées dans le cadre des effets de la double soumission forcée (Joule, 1991) sur la transformation des représentations sociales (Renard, Bonardi, Roussiau, & Girandola, 2007). Plus précisément, l’objectif de cette thèse est de déterminer quels types de modification au sein de la représentation sociale du sport chez des étudiants non-sportifs sont susceptibles de produire un impact sur les attitudes et les comportements, et de voir si des processus de réduction de la dissonance sont à l’origine de ces changements. Si la transformation structurale de la représentation sociale du sport entraine une évolution au niveau des attitudes à court terme, il semble que la modification de la signification d’un élément central provoque des changements attitudinaux et comportementaux à long terme.Les étudiants ayant réalisé deux actes engageants, dans un contexte de liberté, se déclarent plus favorables et pratiquent plus de sport que les participants de la condition contrôle. Une interprétation en termes de rationalisation est avancée<br>The theory of commitment (Joule & Beauvois, 1998 ; Kiesler, 1971), combined with thetheory of cognitive dissonance (Festinger, 1957 ; Fointiat, Girandola, & Gosling, 2013),provides an experimental framework of observation and understanding of some social practiceeffects on the social representation dynamics (Abric, 1994 ; Flament, 1994 ; Guimelli, 1989).This work follows on from the research led in the area of the effects of forced doublecompliance (Joule, 1991) on the transformation of social representations (Renard, Bonardi,Roussiau, & Girandola, 2007). The aim of this thesis is more precisely to determine what typesof modification within the social representation of sport among nonathletic students are likelyto produce an impact on attitudes and behaviours, and to see whether those changes originatefrom some dissonance reduction processes. If the structural transformation of sport socialrepresentation produces an evolution on short-term attitudes, it seems that the modification ofa central element signification causes long-term attitudinal and behavioural changes. Thestudents who fulfilled two acts in a context of commitment (ie, free- choice) declare themselvesmore favorable and practise more sport than the participants in the control condition. Aninterpretation in terms of rationalisation is put forward
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Holmensköld, Malou, and Nathalie Paktinat. "Attitydförändring vid penningtvättsskandal : En kvantitativ studie." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-23470.
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Bakgrund: Under flera år har några av Sveriges största banker kritiserats under den så kallade “penningtvätts-härvan”. Media har till stor del uppmärksammat skandalen utifrån ett företagsperspektiv men desto mindre ur ett kundperspektiv. Skandalernas relevans och aktualitet öppnar upp för att undersöka på vilket sätt bankkunder reagerar till följd av penningtvättsskandaler. Syfte: Syftet är att undersöka vilken effekt penningtvättsskandaler har på konsumenters befintliga attityder gentemot banker. Med anledning av de senaste årens uppmärksammade bankskandaler i Sverige görs undersökningen för att avgöra om attitydförändringen vidare har någon påverkan på konsumenters beteende i förhållande till bankerna. Tidsperspektivet gör denna studie relevant för att undersöka i vilken utsträckning konsumenter påverkas av denna typ av skandal vilket ger viktiga insikter för finansföretag. Metod: För att uppfylla vårt informationsbehov bestod vår empiri av kvantitativ data som samlades in genom enkäter. Vi var intresserade av att undersöka om det fanns ett samband mellan studenters attitydförändringar och beteende gentemot bankerna. Urvalet bestod av studenter som läser någon form av ekonomisk inriktning vid Högskolan i Borås. I enkäterna presenterades ett fiktivt fall där en penningtvättsskandal illustrerades samt information om hur studenterna skulle påverkas av skandalen. I det ena fallet drabbades studenterna ekonomiskt negativt av skandalen medan de inte drabbades i det andra fallet. Vi skickade således ut tvåenkäter, där hälften av urvalet fick den ena enkäten medan den andra hälften fick den andra. Resultat: Många av studenterna har relativt stabila relationer till sina banker innan skandalerna. Efter skandalerna värdesatte studenterna främst det egna intresset vilket medförde att de inte längre var lika lojala gentemot sina banker. Det skedde en tydlig attitydförändring blandstudenterna efter skandalerna oavsett ekonomisk påverkan. Slutsatser: Utifrån undersökningens modifierade modell kan vi dra slutsatserna att studenternas värderingar, egenintresse och lojalitet till banken tillsammans bidrar till en attitydförändring till följd av skandalerna. Det innebär att penningtvättsskandalen i de fiktiva fallen visade sig ha en effekt på studenternas befintliga attityder gentemot deras banker. Denna attitydförändring mynnar vidare ut i ett beteende orsakat av skandalerna.<br>Background: For several years, some of Sweden's largest banks have been criticized during the so-called “money laundering scandal”. The media has largely drawn attention to the scandal from a business perspective, nevertheless from a customer perspective. The scandal's relevance and timeliness opens up to investigate how bank customers react due to money laundering scandals. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of money laundering scandals on consumers' existing attitudes towards banks, based on the recent banking scandals in Sweden in recent years. This is to determine if the change in attitude further has any effect on consumerbehavior in relation to the banks. The time perspective makes this study relevant to examining the extent to which consumers are affected by this type of scandal, which provides important insights for financial companies. Methodology: To fulfill the purpose of the study, our empirical data consisted of quantitative data collected through surveys. We were interested in investigating whether there was a connection between students' attitude changes and behavior towards the banks. The sample consisted of students who study some form of financial orientation at the University of Borås. The survey presented a fictitious case in which a money laundering scandal was illustrated as well as information on how the students would be affected by the scandal. In one case, the students were financially negatively affected by the scandal while in the other case they were not affected financially. Half of the students received the survey were they were negatively affected and the other half, the one where they weren´t affected. Findings: Many of the students seemed to have relatively stable relationships with their banks before the scandals. Following the scandals the students seemed to value their self-interest which meant that they were no longer as loyal, as before, to their banks. There was a clear change in attitude among the students following the scandals regardless of financial impact. Conclusions: Based on the study’s modified model, we can conclude that the students' values, self-interest and loyalty to the bank contribute to a change in attitude towards the bank as a result of the scandals. This means that in the fictitious cases, the money laundering scandal had an effect on the students' existing attitudes towards their banks. The change in attitude further leads to a behavior caused by the scandals.
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Dimova, Elena Dimcheva. "Teachable moments : potential for behaviour change among people with Type 2 diabetes and their relatives." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/28625.
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Background: There are naturally occurring health events, such as illness diagnosis, that motivate people to spontaneously adopt healthy behaviours. Such events are often re-ferred to as teachable moments. They have the potential to increase the effectiveness of behaviour change interventions, when people are already motivated to change behaviour. However, it is unclear what makes illness diagnosis a teachable moment for some people but not for others. This project aims to identify the factors determining whether and for whom diagnosis of type 2 diabetes is a teachable moment, and to explore the components of a potential intervention to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes among high-risk groups. Method: A mixed-methods design, divided into two studies, was employed. The first study was a qualitative study and used semi-structured interviews (n=10 patients and n=13 relatives). It explored the changes occurring in people after diagnosis of type 2 diabetes in oneself or a family member in an effort to identify what factors make diagnosis a teachable moment. The study also explored people's suggestions for a potential diabetes prevention intervention. The second study was a quantitative study and used postal questionnaires (n=85 patients and n=55 relatives). It investigated the relationship between potential teachable moment factors and primary outcomes (physical activity, diet, interest in diabe-tes-related information and education course). Results: This mixed-methods study suggests that the factors that may make diagnosis of type 2 diabetes a teachable moment for patients are outcome expectancy, perceived con-trol, severity, self-concept or social role, gender and time since diagnosis; and for relatives: perceived risk, severity, self-concept or social role, and gender. Although there was lack of complete alignment in factors identified through different methods, this study advances understanding of when interventions may be more (or less) successful. The study makes recommendations for potential interventions to capitalise on the teachable moment crite-ria. Conclusion: The current project highlights the complexity of teachable moment criteria and their relationship with behaviour change. Future research is required to further uncov-er these criteria and their utility for health promotion.
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Reid, Chelsea. "CHANGE, SIMILARITY, AND SELECTIVITY: THE IMPACT OF ATTITUDE ALIGNMENT ON ATTRACTION." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/584.
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Would you like a stranger more who shifts his/her attitudes to more closely align with yours? How would you feel if he/she aligned with everyone as opposed to just you? In Experiment 1, participants discussed with a partner disagreed upon social issues and received false feedback about whether the partner engaged in attitude alignment (shifted his/her attitude toward the participant’s attitude) following discussion. Participants also received false feedback about proportion of similarity (25%, 50%, or 75%) to the partner. Participants reported greater attraction toward partners who engaged in attitude alignment and who were more similar. However, similarity only predicted attraction in the absence of attitude alignment. Additionally, partner attitude alignment led to participant attitude alignment, and perceived reasoning ability marginally mediated the attitude alignment-attraction relationship. Similar to Experiment 1, participants in Experiment 2 received attitude alignment feedback, but they also received feedback about whether the partner engaged in attitude alignment with no others besides the participant (selective) or with many others besides the participant (unselective). Participants reported greater attraction toward partners who engaged in attitude alignment with them regardless of the partners’ attitude alignment with others. Perceived reasoning ability again mediated the attitude alignment-attraction relationship, and appeared to be more important in explaining this relation than cognitive evaluation or inferred attraction. Finally, participants reported greater trust and respect for partners who engaged in attitude alignment, but were no more willing to help those partners. This work extends our understanding of attitude alignment and its potential to affect interpersonal relationships, and it considers the influence of judgments about individuals outside of the dyad (i.e., alignment with others relative to alignment with the self).
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Annis, Carmen K. "Organic Cosmetics Attitudes and Behaviors of College Women." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1312386467.
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Lucas, Kevin. "The relationship between beliefs, attitudes, negative affect and changes in smoking behaviour during pregnancy." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.358177.
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Prentice, Garry Raymond. "Assessing undergraduate students' drug attitudes and behaviour change using latent growth modelling." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.252415.
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Cherradi, Ouafaa, and Cansu Tetik. "Attitude-Behavior Gap in Sustainable Fashion." Thesis, Jönköping University, Internationella Handelshögskolan, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-48721.
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Ölmefors, Oscar. "Student Attitudes towards Flipped Classroom : A Focus Group Study on Attitude Change in Swedish Upper Secondary School, within Mathematics towards Flipped Classroom." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för teknikvetenskaplig kommunikation och lärande (ECE), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-189170.
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In traditional schooling, one-way monologue from teacher to student is the established way of communication in the classroom. Modern pedagogues are presently breaking free of this status quo. This master thesis explores whether there is a change in the student’s attitudes towards their schooling and whether there is an academic benefit for the student when applying a flipped classroom model. This study was performed in Swedish upper secondary school during the students’ last course in mathematics. The study was carried out using focus group interviews and direct participating observation. During the six-week period of interviews and participating in the classroom written tasks were collected and analysed, and the classroom was filmed to help analysing behaviour of the students, both with flipped classroom and without. The outcome shows positive reactions from the students concerning this change in pedagogics, but also some inertia in some individuals. The result shows a positive attitude change concerning communication and collaboration in the classroom, although no difference in academic achievement were visible. More studies are needed, but a theoretical base needs to be built before future studies can be conducted. Today flipped classroom is undertheorized in ways of an academic model. Future research could be theorizing flipped classroom and exploring whether implementing this pedagogic model also brings forth a change in academic achievement apart from changing the attitudes of the students.
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Elias, Laura Sue Catherine. "Changes in Attitudes Towards Substance Use Among High School Students." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5552.
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Use of alcohol and illicit drugs during adolescent development can have negative effects on cognitive functioning and mental health. The purpose of this cross sectional study was to examine grade level, sex, athletic affiliation, and ethnicity as they relate to substance-using attitudes to isolate the period in which shifts in attitudes toward substance use in adolescents occur. The social learning theory provided the framework for the study. Participants included 276 high school students from a midsized Midwestern city. Students in the ninth, 10th, 11th, and 12th grades who participated in the study were asked to complete a brief electronic survey designed to assess attitudes toward substance use, which was administered during a free study period. Survey questions were drawn from the Attitude Scale on the Substance Abuse Screening Inventory for Adolescents. An ANOVA was run using the multiple independent variables taken from the survey to examine the differences between each of the independent variables, grade level, athletic status, sex, and ethnicity on the dependent variable of attitudes. There were overall significant differences found for favorable attitudes towards substance use among the Grade levels ninth, 10th, 11th, and 12th grades at the p < 0.001 level [F(3, 272) = 6.933, p =.001]. Further analysis was conducted and significant differences were found between ninth graders and 11th graders in their attitudes towards substance use and between ninth graders and 12th graders in their attitudes towards substance use. The greater significant difference occurred between ninth graders and 12th graders. The findings from this study can be used to assist educators in the creation of developmentally appropriate curricula that could act as an intervention to the onset of substance use.
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Santoro, Lauren Ratliff. "Choosing to be Changed: How Selection Conditions the Effect of Social Networks on Political Attitudes." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1498740182855649.
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Smith, Edna J. "An Intervention to Change Attitudes and Physical Activities of Adult Foster Care Home Workers in Hawaii." Thesis, Brandman University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10277652.
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An Intervention to Change Attitudes and Physical Activities of Adult Foster Care Home Workers in Hawaii
by Edna J. Smith
Insufficient information is available in the medical literature to describe the physical activity
habits of adult foster care home workers. Healthcare workers are notorious for lack of self-care.
Being a health care worker is a mentally and physically demanding job. It stands to
reason that physically fit health care workers are less likely to suffer injury or become ill.
This study questions whether attitudes towards physical activity outside the workplace
can be influenced the recommended downloading of a smartphone application (smart-phone
app). The intervention of the smart phone application provides a free standardized way to
manage physical activity.
Pre- and post-intervention questionnaires survey attitudes and thoughts towards physical
activity. Each participant was provided access to these questionnaires prior to downloading the
smart phone application. Approximately six weeks after the initial questionnaires were returned
from the study participants, the questionnaires were given again.
The data analysis for this study reveals the responses of the 21 study participants to preand
post-questionnaires. Interestingly, 19 of the 21 voluntary study participant identified as
being of Filipino ethnicity. Filipinos are the second largest ethnic group in Hawaii (Inouye,
Matsuura, Li, Castro, & Leake, 2014), where the study took place.
Key Words: adult foster care homes, physical activity, exercise, Filipino healthcare workers
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Lobo, Pedro Jorge Gonçalves. "Developing persuasive interfaces." Master's thesis, FCT - UNL, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/1973.
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MSCC Dissertation in Computer Engineering<br>Nowadays, computers are indispensable tools for most people. Since computers’ role is to make everyone’s life easier, systems can be built to be of even more assistance. While today people have to learn how to interact with computers, in the future, instead of having to do that, computer systems will be blended in our everyday things. It is expected that technology will come to a point where it is natural to interact with it like with every other object.
Computers have been gaining their space in our lives being considered machines that can do almost anything. This master thesis has the purpose of studying how computers can be used as persuasive technology. To build persuasive systems it is important to know that humans are very different from each other. Given this idea it is of extreme importance that the system is able to determine as much aspects of the surrounding environment as it can, to process that information and interact with people accordingly.
To achieve a solution that is effective for this concept, a study of persuasive systems is presented in this document. An architecture was developed in order to provide an infrastructure for the development of persuasive applications. An authoring tool was also implemented in order to allow the creation of context aware persuasive applications by users without programming skills.
Furthermore, a persuasive application prototype was developed as proof of concept for this study. Usability tests were performed to analyze if users could successfully create the application prototype, named Smart Bins, using the proposed framework. Further user tests were executed with children, the target users of the application prototype, to evaluate its usability and persuasiveness. A description of the Smart Bins application as well as the results of the user tests are presented in this thesis. The results provide further understanding and new perspectives regarding the use of persuasive technologies as interactive computer products, designed to change people’s habits, therefore helping to improve human’s attitudes and behaviours towards important matters like environmental preservation.
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Chan, Alison Suk Kuen. "To take or not to take the risk? Toward a greater understanding of employees' cognitive decision process in change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2018. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/573.
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The importance of leadership style and the organizational citizenship behavior have been recognized in many research studies. However, the influence of empowering leadership on employee's change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior and employees' cognitive mechanism to engage in such behavior have received little attention. Drawing on social cognitive theory, the present study explores the effects of empowering leadership on change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior directly and indirectly through employees' willingness to take risk. The study also examines the boundary conditions that employees would make the decision to engage in such behavior with the effects of two moderators - regulatory focus and perceived organizational support.;A nested data model of empowering leadership, willingness to take risk, regulatory focus, perceived organizational support and change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior were tested using a 3-wave sample of 173 matched dyad relationships from nine financial institutions in Hong Kong. The research model rests with individual-level as unit of analysis while controlling the variances from the teams using hierarchical linear modeling. The results show that willingness to take risk can partially mediate the relationship between empowering leadership and change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior. In addition, promotion focus, prevention focus and perceived organizational support can moderate the relationship between empowering leadership and willingness to take risk when they are of low level while promotion focus and willingness to take risk are proved to be predictors of change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior. Implications from the findings for future research and management practice will be discussed.
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Zhu, Junyan. "How Campaign's Change Voters' Policy Positions: An Analysis of Shifting Attitudes towards the Redistribution of Wealth." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/political_science_theses/51.
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During campaigns, voters often learn that their party's candidate advocates policy positions that conflict with their own attitudes. These cross-pressured voters can either adjust their policy positions to be consonant with their party's candidate or voting for others. I use monthly NES Panel Data from 2008-2009 to examine how voters' beliefs change about a specific policy: the redistribution of wealth through progressive taxation during a presidential campaign. I test this by creating a Random Effects Ordered Probit Panel regression model of ten monthly waves of survey data before the 2008 presidential election. The study shows that over the campaign, voters' policy positions evolve on redistributive taxation policy; voters adjust their prior policy cognitive dissonance to be in agreement with their candidate. The results indicate that in the 2008 Presidential election, the electorate more often moved their policy beliefs to be in agreement with their candidate, rather than switch votes.
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Ngan, Chiu-wah Daniel. "Relationship between death attitude and suicidal behavior." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29760094.
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Harmsen, Rivera Daniela. "How to encourage informal debriefing? : A step further on changing attitudes with games." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för kommunikation och information, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-5132.
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Norstedt, Josefin, and Felix Sjölinder. "Bridging the Attitude-Behavior Gap : A case study for how an FMCG company may decrease the attitude-behavior gap." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-448156.
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Marketing has a vital role in encouraging sustainable consumption. The purpose of this study is to examine how a company’s holistic green marketing orientation affects the ability to decrease the attitude-behavior gap in the FMCG industry. The attitude-behavior gap is caused by different barriers consumers face in sustainable consumption. Even though many consumers express favorable attitudes towards sustainable consumption, their behaviors are constrained by internal and external factors. The study is conducted through a holistic, in-depth single case study with an FMCG firm regarding how they approach a holistic green marketing orientation. Depending on how a company applies green marketing strategies, it can either increase or decrease the gap. The authors found that a company applying a holistic green marketing orientation, consisting of internal-, strategic- and tactical green marketing orientations, enhances the company’s ability to decrease the attitude-behavior gap. Keywords: Attitude-behavior gap, Environmental sustainability, Green marketing orientation, Holistic green marketing, FMCG
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Barber, Jessica. "Attitudinal Responses to Mixed Evidence: The Role of Attitude Extremity and Political Ideology in Effecting Change versus Resistance." VCU Scholars Compass, 2012. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/327.
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Four studies investigated the effects of attitude extremity and political ideology on the degree and direction of changes in issue attitudes following the presentation of mixed evidence. Based upon previous work, it was predicted that those holding relatively more extreme attitudes would resist changing those views when presented with a mixture of supporting and opposing statements and would potentially adopt more extreme evaluative positions – a phenomenon known as attitude polarization (Lord, Ross, & Lepper, 1979). Evaluative entrenchment or intensification was also expected among more politically conservative participants, based upon prior work describing cognitive rigidity and resistance to change as more characteristic of the political right than left (e.g., Jost, Glaser, Kruglanski, & Sulloway, 2003). An interaction of attitude extremity and political ideology was also hypothesized, such that liberal individuals with moderate attitudes were expected to demonstrate the least propensity to polarize. Participants’ attitudes regarding abortion rights (Study 1), gun control (Study 2), tax increases (Study 3), and environmental preservation (Study 4) were assessed before and after reading statements that both opposed and supported the issue. Political ideology was also assessed, along with several individual difference factors. Across all four studies, attitude extremity significantly predicted evaluative change, although the pattern of that effect varied. Political ideology did not emerge consistently as a predictor of attitude change; however, significant interactive effects of extremity and ideology were found. In addition, several individual difference factors (i.e., gender, need for cognition, issue importance) were found to moderate the effects of the primary predictors on attitude change, and some divergent result patterns were found when comparing data from a college and non-college sample in Study 4. Taken together, these studies provide evidence that attitude extremity and political ideology influence the degree and direction of evaluative change following the presentation of mixed evidence. In addition, they identify other factors at work in effecting change versus resistance, thereby highlighting the multi-faceted and complex nature of persuasion in a political context.
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Richards, Gail Griffin. "Using the Testwell wellness inventory and Stages of change measurement questionnaire to measure wellness levels." Virtual Press, 1996. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1020164.
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The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to determine whether wellness management students would have higher levels of wellness than students who are not studying wellness, and (b) to determine if the results of the Stages of Change measurement questionnaire would correlate positively with the results of a standardized wellness measurement questionnaire. The first issue was examined by comparing total wellness levels of wellness management graduate students with total wellness levels of nonwellness management graduate students, as measured by the Testwell Wellness Inventory. There was no statistical difference between the two groups. This suggests that wellness students may not be effective models in their chosen field. The second issue was examined by testing whether the Stages of Change measurement questionnaire would correlate positively with the Testwell total wellness score. Study results showed that if students scored high in wellness, they would score in a high Stages of Change category. This suggests that the Stages of Change questionnaire may be used to measure readiness for general lifestyle behavior change.<br>Fisher Institute for Wellness
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Simunich, Bethany. "Emotion arousing message forms and personal agency arguments in persuasive messages motivating effects on pro-environmental behaviors /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1228334861.
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Hillenbrand-Gunn, Theresa L. "Acquaintance rape and male high school students : can a social norms intervention change attitudes and perceived norms? /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3137710.
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Cito, Maria Cristina <1982>. "Identity Changes and Consumer Behavior. How Becoming Parents Changes Our Consumption Choices." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2015. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/7139/.
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This research aims at investigating the impact of the identity change on consumption. An identity change is defined as the acquisition of a new identity after a life change event. For instance after the birth of the first child the new identity as parent is acquired and a woman can define herself as a mother. Despite marketing research recognizes that individuals’ identity is unstable and susceptible to change, the investigation of the identity change is still in its infancy. Furthermore, marketing research did not investigate the contextual effect of the new as well as the old identity on individuals’ reaction toward identity-marketing. In order words, whether people show a more favorable reaction toward product related to their new or their old identities after an identity change is still unclear. In order to answer this question, five studies are conducted. Results show that when the new identity substitutes the old one, people show a more positive reaction toward new-identity related products, while when the new identity is added to the old ones, people show a more positive reaction toward old-identity related products. This is the case also when the new identity accounts for high levels of identification (study three) and when the old identity is squeezed by the new one (studies four and five). A new concept, the identity strain, is then introduced and discussed.
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Hader, Khaled Farag Imhemed. "Influencing attitudes, changing behaviours and embedding a pro-sustainability mindset in the workplace : an innovation diffusion approach to persuasive communications." Thesis, University of Derby, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10545/622838.
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Although several sustainability implementation frameworks have been proposed, researchers have not yet proposed theories or models to help organisations speed up the rate of sustainability diffusion and narrow the gap between what is known and what is put into use. This study sought to fill this gap by proposing a sustainability diffusion model. The model was developed from an exhaustive review of the corresponding literature. It uses Rogers' (1962) diffusion of innovations theory and Ajzen's (1991) theory of planned behaviour as a theoretical foundation. The model was tested and its structural architecture was validated in three different sustainability contexts; namely, duplex printing in UK universities; sustainable computing in service-based businesses; and sustainability culture in UK universities. The primary data was analysed statistically using SPSS, and structural equation modelling (SEM) in particular was used to validate the structural architecture of the proposed model. The SEM results indicate that the structural architecture of the theory of planned behaviour is well-founded. All the hypotheses that underline the theory's paths were supported. In contrast, the structural architecture of the diffusion of innovations theory was weakly supported. Some of the paths were rejected in at least two occasions. For example, the relationship between pro-sustainability knowledge and attitude was neither statistically significant nor directional. Moreover, several components of the 'verified' model turned out to be statistically insignificant or were rejected altogether. These were knowledge, perceived self interest, perceived persuader legitimacy, perceived consequences, perceived argument quality, trialability and perceived source credibility. Accordingly, once these constructs were removed and the model was restructured in accordance with the results of SEM analysis, an entirely new version of the 'sustainability diffusion model' emerged (See Figure IX-2). The architecture of the new model suggests that in order to speed up the rate of sustainability diffusion, change agents must emphasise the relative advantage, compatibility, subjective norm and the urgency of the pro-sustainability initiative under implementation and de-emphasise any complexities or risks associated with its operationalisation. Unexpectedly, the new version of the proposed model relies more on Ajzen's (1991) theory of planned behaviour as a theoretical foundation than on Rogers' (1983) innovation-decision process model. In other words, the new model maintained almost all the features of the theory of planned behaviour, but it only absorbed some, but not all, of the components of Rogers' innovation-decision process model. Nevertheless, the new model maintained its holistic nature. It still takes into account both the person-specific and innovation-specific factors that influence the diffusion, adoption and actualisation of pro-sustainability behaviours/initiatives.