Predicting and changing behavior : the reasoned action approach / / Martin Fishbein, Icek Ajzen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910969637103321
• Autore: Fishbein Martin
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Psychology Press, c2010; New York : , : Psychology Press, , 2010
• ISBN: 9786613105288; 9781136874727; 1136874720; 9781283105286; 1283105284; 9781136874734; 1136874739; 9780203838020; 0203838025
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (527 p.)
• Classificazione: 77.60
• Altri autori (Persone): AjzenIcek
• Disciplina: 153.8/5
• Soggetti: Behavior modification; Expectation (Psychology); Human behavior; Modificació de la conducta; Predicció (Psicologia); Conducta (Psicologia); Psicologia social; Llibres electrònics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-448) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Defining and predicting behavior -- Attitudes and their determinants -- Perceived norms and their determinants -- Perceived behavioral control and its determinants -- Attitudes, norms and control as predictors of intentions and behavior -- Background factors and origins of beliefs -- General attitudes and the prediction of behavior -- ; Challenges to the reasoned action approach -- Changing behavior : theoretical considerations --Changing behavior : sample interventions -- Appendix: Constructing a reasoned action questionnaire.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book describes the reasoned action approach, an integrative framework for the prediction and change of human social behavior. It provides an up-to-date review of relevant research, discusses critical issues related to the reasoned action framework, and provides methodological and conceptual tools for the prediction and explanation of social behavior and for designing behavior change interventions.