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Kyle R. Loggins – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Each year excessive alcohol use costs the United States (US) economy $250 billion and results in 95,000 deaths. Binge drinking is a form of excessive alcohol use and accounts for over 70% of these statistics. High-intensity drinking (HID), an extreme measure of binge drinking, is operationally defined as drinking twice the gender-specific binge…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Alcohol Abuse, Team Sports, College Athletics
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Joensuu-Salo, Sanna; Viljamaa, Anmari; Varamäki, Elina – Education & Training, 2020
Purpose: This study aims to contribute to entrepreneurial intention research by examining the theory of planned behavior model in a longitudinal follow-up of the same individuals from a point at which they were studying until six to eight years after graduation and the link between entrepreneurial intention and actual behavior. The objectives of…
Descriptors: Intention, Entrepreneurship, Behavior, Behavior Theories
Silvestri, Justin – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The gender gap in American undergraduate students' participation in study-abroad programs is a persistent phenomenon. According to the Institute of International Education (2022a), male students have represented between 32.7% and 36.5% of all American students abroad between the 2007-2008 and 2018-2019 academic years. Research similarly shows that…
Descriptors: Males, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Study Abroad
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Breslin, Gavin; Shannon, Stephen; Prentice, Garry; Rosato, Michael; Leavey, Gerard – Child Care in Practice, 2022
Background: Adolescent mental illness is of increasing concern, with prevalence increasing especially in females in the United Kingdom. While service-related barriers can deter help-seeking, the role of family support and engagement in family activities, and attitudes towards seeking help from a doctor has received little attention. Studies…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Mental Health, Help Seeking, Family Relationship
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Zaremohzzabieh, Zeinab; Krauss, Steven Eric; D'Silva, Jeffrey Lawrence; Tiraieyari, Neda; Ismail, Ismi Arif; Dahalan, Dzuhailmi – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2022
Purpose: The aim of the study was to identify factors associated with tertiary students' intention to pursue agriculture-related careers. The moderating effect of gender and geographic location on the predictive relationships was also examined. Design/methodology/approach: Quantitative data were collected from 488 students studying in five…
Descriptors: College Students, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Occupations, Career Choice
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Beuk, Frederik; Weidner, Kelly L.; Houser, Lauren M. – Journal of Marketing Education, 2023
This research is one of the first Intent to Pursue a Sales Career (ITPSC) studies to link intent to actual student behavior. In addition, this study systematically revisits the validity and reliability of the ITPSC-scale and its associated antecedents. Based on partial least square analysis, we find support for the validity and reliability of the…
Descriptors: Marketing, Validity, Ethics, Sales Occupations
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Che Nawi, Noorshella; Mamun, Abdullah Al; Hassan, Ariezal Afzan; Wan Ibrahim, Wan Suzanna Aafanii Adeeba; Mohamed, Amaal Fadhlini; Permarupan, P. Yukthamarani – SAGE Open, 2022
This study empirically examines how graduate students' attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, knowledge, and acceptance of agro-business influence student intention to start agro-entrepreneurship and the moderating effect of gender and faculty on the relationship among the factors based on the Theory of Planned Behavior. The…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Agricultural Education, Gender Differences, Graduate Students
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Earle, Andrew M.; Napper, Lucy E.; LaBrie, Joseph W.; Brooks-Russell, Ashley; Smith, Daniel J.; de Rutte, Jennifer – Journal of American College Health, 2020
Objective: As marijuana use becomes more available to college students through increasing legal reform, this paper seeks to examine intentions for driving under the influence of cannabis (DUIC) and riding with a high driver (RWHD) through the lens of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and assess potential interactions between personal attitudes,…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Marijuana, Prediction, Intention
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Simiyu, Gabriel; Bonuke, Ronald; Komen, Joyce – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2020
Using cross-sectional data from 504 students from four Kenyan universities, this study evaluates the indirect effect of brand personality on the relationship between social media and students' behavioral intentions to enroll in postgraduate studies. Additionally, the study examines the moderating effect of attitude on the relationship between…
Descriptors: Social Media, Student Behavior, Intention, Enrollment
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Dündar, Sahin – Issues in Educational Research, 2019
Using the theory of planned behaviour (Ajzen, 1985, 1991), this study examined the intentions of preservice teachers regarding use of the case study method in their social studies classes. The participants were 314 preservice teachers (219 elementary school; 95 social studies) and the study was conducted in the spring term of the 2017-2018…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Intention, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Social Studies
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Alshalawi, Abdullah S. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2022
Statistics indicated that social media applications are not being utilised by many faculties for teaching purposes. The purpose of this study was to investigate factors that influence the adoption of social media applications for teaching purposes in higher education and present the current status of this adoption. The Theory of Planned Behaviour…
Descriptors: Social Media, Teaching Methods, Higher Education, Technology Uses in Education
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Catalano, Hannah Priest; Richard, Keith; Hawkins, Katherine Hyatt – Health Educator, 2017
This study tested a theory of planned behavior (TPB)-based model in predicting human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination intentions and series completion among university students. A nonexperimental, cross-sectional design was utilized with a convenience sample of 281 university students, including 40.9% nonvaccinees, 19.6% vaccine initiators, and…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Communicable Diseases, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Immunization Programs
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Guerin, Rebecca J.; Toland, Michael D.; Okun, Andrea H.; Rojas-Guyler, Liliana; Baker, Devin S.; Bernard, Amy L. – Journal of School Health, 2019
Background: Workplace safety and health is a major public health concern, but largely absent from the school health curriculum. Little is known about teachers' perceptions of teaching workplace safety and health topics. Methods: We administered a 41-item questionnaire reflecting the theory of planned behavior, modified to measure knowledge, to 242…
Descriptors: Occupational Safety and Health, Work Environment, Safety Education, Health Education
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altawallbeh, Manal; Thiam, Wun; alshourah, Sultan; Fong, Soon Fook – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The purpose of this study is to examine the moderating factors that effect on adaption e-learning among students in Jordanian universities. Two models of e-learning that are observed among adopting institutions are: E-learning as a supplement to traditional classroom model have been introduced by the respondents in this research. The paper takes a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Age Differences, Gender Differences, Electronic Learning
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Fichten, Catherine S.; Heiman, Tali; Jorgensen, Mary; Nguyen, Mai Nhu; Havel, Alice; King, Laura; Budd, Jillian; Amsel, Rhonda – International Journal of Higher Education, 2016
We tested the ability of Ajzen's Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) model to predict intention to graduate among Canadian and Israeli students with and without a learning disability/attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (LD/ADHD). Results based on 1486 postsecondary students show that the model's predictors (i.e., attitude, subjective norms,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Behavior Theories, Learning Disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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