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Support for the TPB

The TPB has been used to assess a variety of health-related behaviours. For example, Brubaker and Wickersham (1990) examined the role of the theory’s different components in predicting testicular self-examination and reported that attitude towards the behaviour, subjective norm and behavioural control (measured as self-efficacy) correlated with the intention to perform the behaviour. A further [...]

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Tue, July 14 2009 » Theory of reasoned action » Comments Off

Criticisms of the TPB

Schwarzer (1992) has criticized the TPB for its omission of a temporal element and argues that the TPB does not describe either the order of the different beliefs or any direction of causality. However, in contrast to the HBM and the PMT, the model attempts to address the problem of social and environmental factors (in [...]

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Tue, June 30 2009 » Theory of reasoned action » Comments Off