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  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,958 Views
17 Pages

16 September 2022

Background: Previous studies have shown that the controlling behaviour of physical education teachers might be detrimental to their students’ psychological experiences. The purpose of this work was to examine whether and to what extent the diff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,093 Views
24 Pages

Food tourism is growing in travel experiences, with tourists increasingly drawn to culturally authentic and aesthetically engaging food. Understanding the psychological and experiential factors shaping these preferences is crucial for enhancing touri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,261 Views
13 Pages

13 December 2024

Based on social cognitive theory and the theory of planned behaviour, this study explores the influence of green self-efficacy on consumers’ willingness to buy forest-certified products. Despite extensive research being conducted on forest-cert...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,933 Views
18 Pages

8 December 2020

Background: Several studies demonstrate that the provision of personalized lifestyle advice, based on genetics, can help motivate individuals to engage in greater nutrition and physical activity changes compared to the provision of population-based a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,252 Views
15 Pages

22 July 2022

Food waste remains an ongoing problem in hotel operations, and changing employees’ behaviour is key to tackling this issue. Analysing the influences on employees’ working practices can help to drive pro-environmental behaviour changes tha...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3,385 Views
9 Pages

Intention to Choose Education Course in UiTM Using Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB)

  • Muhammad Saiful Anuar Yusoff,
  • Wan Nazihah Wan Mohamed,
  • Zulkifli Mohamed and
  • Norhaiyati Abdul Muin

In line with the offering of a Master’s of Education as a new course in UiTM Kelantan, this study was conducted to investigate the willingness of the community to enrol into the course based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB). The influen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
5,039 Views
12 Pages

Assessing the Role of Food Related Lifestyle in Predicting Intention towards Edible Insects

  • Fabio Verneau,
  • Francesco La Barbera,
  • Mario Amato,
  • Roberta Riverso and
  • Klaus G. Grunert

25 September 2020

Although recent literature has shown that switching to an insect-based diet could provide several relevant advantages—from a nutritional, environmental, economic and ecological point of view—the potential growth of insects as everyday foo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,880 Views
23 Pages

22 January 2024

The inability to effectively manage waste has evolved into one of the most significant challenges faced in oil palm plantations, and this failure has had an impact on the operations within the plantation. This study examines how attitudes (ATT), subj...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,411 Views
15 Pages

This article uses a modified model of the theory of planned behaviour to assess salient beliefs of household heads towards the separation of municipal solid waste at its source in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Structural equation modelling was u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,549 Views
21 Pages

The Development of Three Questionnaires to Assess Beliefs about Green Exercise

  • Elliott P. Flowers,
  • Paul Freeman and
  • Valerie F. Gladwell

Green exercise is physical activity that takes place in the presence of natural environments. Despite the promising evidence of the benefits, little is known about how individuals’ thoughts and feelings influence participation in green exercise and s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,618 Views
16 Pages

Why Do We Not Follow Lifesaving Rules? Factors Affecting Nonadherence to COVID-19 Prevention Guidelines in Indonesia: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives

  • Nelsensius Klau Fauk,
  • Alfonsa Liquory Seran,
  • Christopher Raymond,
  • Maria Silvia Merry,
  • Roheena Tahir,
  • Gregorius Abanit Asa and
  • Paul Russell Ward

This study aimed to understand Indonesian healthcare professionals’ (HCPs) perceptions and experiences regarding barriers to both HCP and community adherence to COVID-19 prevention guidelines in their social life. This methodologically qualitat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,764 Views
9 Pages

Does Prior Experience Matter? Intention to Undergo Cervical Cancer Screening among Rural Women in South-Central Ethiopia

  • Bezawit Ketema,
  • Adamu Addissie,
  • Sarah Negash,
  • Eva Johanna Kantelhardt and
  • Mirgissa Kaba

24 August 2024

Early screening for cervical cancer has substantially reduced the morbidity and mortality attributed to it. This study aimed to assess factors that affect the intention to undergo cervical cancer screening among rural women attending primary healthca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
18,973 Views
26 Pages

31 January 2022

This study examines the willingness to consume a cultured meat burger in Germany. Based on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB), we assessed attitudes, perceived behavioural control, and subjective norms via an online questionnaire. Attitudes were o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,655 Views
23 Pages

28 September 2024

The 2008 melamine crisis led to widespread consumer distrust of Chinese domestic infant milk formula (IMF), which was substituted through a surge of imported products. Recent studies, however, suggest a revival in consumer confidence in Chinese domes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,984 Views
25 Pages

Cognitive-Motivational Determinants of Residents’ Civic Engagement and Health (Inequities) in the Context of Noise Action Planning: A Conceptual Model

  • Natalie Riedel,
  • Irene Van Kamp,
  • Heike Köckler,
  • Joachim Scheiner,
  • Adrian Loerbroks,
  • Thomas Claßen and
  • Gabriele Bolte

The Environmental Noise Directive expects residents to be actively involved in localising and selecting noise abatement interventions during the noise action planning process. Its intervention impact is meant to be homogeneous across population group...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,532 Views
21 Pages

23 September 2025

The extent to which entrepreneurship education and exposure to role models influence the antecedents of entrepreneurial intention, entrepreneurial intention, and subsequent entrepreneurial behaviour has yielded mixed results in prior research. Furthe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,053 Views
21 Pages

Entrepreneurship has long been a key driver of economic development across various countries. Investigating the determinants of entrepreneurial behaviour is essential for making a meaningful contribution to sustainable development. This study investi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,715 Views
18 Pages

17 January 2024

Transportation plays an important role in serving economic, social, political, and population mobility. Public transport is gaining importance for providing sustainability, such as by reducing traffic congestion, noise levels, providing better air qu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,845 Views
17 Pages

13 March 2023

The study aimed to discover the factors influencing the purchase intention and purchase behaviour of customers for green footwear in the context of Saudi Arabia. The study used the theory of planned behaviour constructs, which was extended with two m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,518 Views
22 Pages

20 September 2024

This study examined the effect of munificent environment factors on the antecedents of entrepreneurial intention and risk-taking propensity by means of the theory of planned behaviour. The study also assessed the effect of perceived behavioural contr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,113 Views
14 Pages

Predictive Analysis of the Pro-Environmental Behaviour of College Students Using a Decision-Tree Model

  • Qiaoling Wang,
  • Ziyu Kou,
  • Xiaodan Sun,
  • Shanshan Wang,
  • Xianjuan Wang,
  • Hui Jing and
  • Peiying Lin

The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has hindered the achievement of the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Pro-environmental behaviour contributes to the achievement of the SDGs, and UNESCO considers college students as major contributor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,126 Views
20 Pages

Understanding the Willingness of Students to Use Bicycles for Sustainable Commuting in a University Setting: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach

  • Ahmad Nazrul Hakimi Ibrahim,
  • Muhamad Nazri Borhan,
  • Nur Shaeza Darus,
  • Nor Aznirahani Mhd Yunin and
  • Rozmi Ismail

8 March 2022

The bicycle is a forgotten and neglected mode of transport even though it offers numerous individual, social, and environmental benefits over motorised transport. This research seeks to determine the factors influencing students to use bicycles for c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
7,142 Views
26 Pages

Predicting Entrepreneurial Intentions and Pre-Start-Up Behaviour among Asnaf Millennials

  • Tengku Mohd Azizuddin Tuan Mahmood,
  • Abdullah Al Mamun,
  • Ghazali Bin Ahmad and
  • Mohamed Dahlan Ibrahim

10 September 2019

The study referred to the theory of planned behaviour in determining how the selected factors (innovativeness, proactive personality, need of achievement, internal locus of control, risk-taking propensity, lifestyle integration, social networking, re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,689 Views
20 Pages

Buying Behaviour towards Eco-Labelled Food Products: Mediation Moderation Analysis

  • Syed Shah Alam,
  • Cheng-Kun Wang,
  • Mohammad Masukujjaman,
  • Ismail Ahmad,
  • Chieh-Yu Lin and
  • Yi-Hui Ho

30 January 2023

This study aims to identify the determinants of eco-labelled food product buying behaviour in the Malaysian context. This research develops a comprehensive model proposing that ethical self-efficacy is the moderator, and TPB constructs are the mediat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,787 Views
27 Pages

Occupants’ Decision-Making of Their Energy Behaviours in Office Environments: A Case of New Zealand

  • Achini Shanika Weerasinghe,
  • Eziaku Onyeizu Rasheed and
  • James Olabode Bamidele Rotimi

27 January 2023

Understanding how occupants behave and interact with building systems is vital to energy efficiency in buildings. The building occupants’ behaviours are complex and influenced by diverse factors. A deep understanding of the underlying environme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,833 Views
13 Pages

Pharmacists’ Knowledge and Intention to Provide Palliative Care Services in Saudi Arabia: Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour

  • Ahmed M. Alshehri,
  • Yasser S. Almogbel,
  • Rana E. Alonazi,
  • Waleed M. Alshehri,
  • Hind A. Alkhelaifi,
  • Salman A. Almutairi,
  • Omar S. Alenazi and
  • Ali Z. Alali

Providing palliative care to patients with life-threatening illnesses requires multidisciplinary efforts from different healthcare providers. Identifying the attitude, knowledge, and intentions of pharmacists to provide this service in Saudi Arabia i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,576 Views
14 Pages

1 February 2019

The Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) was used to investigate factors affecting the intention of citizens to donate money altruistically for sustainable rural development projects in Spain. To achieve this aim, individuals’ attitudes, subjectiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,212 Views
17 Pages

This study examines the correlation between Online Privacy Literacy (OPL) and privacy protection behaviour (PPB), including evidence of any correlation between the two. In addition, it considers whether factors of intention, attitude, perceived behav...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,770 Views
12 Pages

Today, Knowledge Management (KM) is becoming a popular approach for improving organizational innovation, but whether encouraging knowledge sharing will lead to a better innovative working behaviour of employees is still a question. This study aims to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,766 Views
18 Pages

15 September 2022

Risk perception has an important influence on tourism decision-making behaviour. Based on the extended Theory of Planned Behaviour, we examine the effect of COVID-19 risk perception on tourists’ behavioural intentions towards forest therapy tou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
201 Citations
23,767 Views
27 Pages

17 April 2017

Due to the increasing waste generation over the years in China, there is an urgent need to addressing this major problem by implementing effective household waste separation programs. Although past studies have tried to explain the waste behaviour fr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,485 Views
18 Pages

Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) such as Lebanon have limited technical, economic, and social infrastructures to manage municipal solid waste properly. Understanding what motivates citizens to sort waste at home is paramount to designing effe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,690 Views
25 Pages

Determinants of Purchase Intention for Meat-Based Chilled Ready Meals in New Zealand: A Consumer Behaviour Perspective

  • Chathurika S. S. Samarakoon Mudiyanselage,
  • Mustafa M. Farouk,
  • Carolina E. Realini,
  • Kevin Kantono and
  • Nazimah Hamid

18 March 2025

The chilled ready meal market in New Zealand has witnessed substantial growth, fuelled by the increasing demand for convenient food options. This study integrates the theory of consumption value (TCV) with the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) to exp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
64 Citations
9,808 Views
21 Pages

18 December 2019

This paper aims to examine the determinants of green purchasing intentions among different resident groups in a developing-country context. We first expand the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) and build a theoretical model based on green purchasing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,773 Views
19 Pages

What Determines Behaviours Towards Water Resources Management in a Rural Context? Results of a Quantitative Study

  • Murat Okumah,
  • Ata Senior Yeboah,
  • Elias Nkiaka and
  • Richard Apatewen Azerigyik

Recent environmental policies introduced to safeguard the quality of water resources have focussed on encouraging pro-environmental behaviours (PEB). This has resulted in a considerable volume of research output that seeks to investigate the determin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
270 Views
15 Pages

20 December 2025

Reducing energy demand and carbon emissions in residential buildings requires more than technological upgrades; it demands a nuanced understanding of occupant behaviour. Residential energy use is shaped by both physical design and human actions, yet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
6,998 Views
23 Pages

6 August 2019

The green retrofitting of existing residential buildings is an important approach to realise the sustainable development of stock buildings. In addition to the new technologies and materials related to green retrofitting, the intention of residents t...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
74 Citations
21,752 Views
4 Pages

Food Choice and Nutrition: A Social Psychological Perspective

  • Sarah J. Hardcastle,
  • Cecilie Thøgersen-Ntoumani and
  • Nikos L.D. Chatzisarantis

21 October 2015

In this Special Issue, entitled “Food choice and Nutrition: A Social Psychological Perspective”, three broad themes have been identified: (1) social and environmental influences on food choice; (2) psychological influences on eating behaviour; and (3...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,143 Views
29 Pages

29 September 2024

Electric aircraft are seen as a key option for reducing the environmental footprint of the aviation industry. This research aims to identify the factors that influence Turkish air travellers’ intentions to adopt electric aircraft by building up...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
14,299 Views
17 Pages

11 May 2023

Using PLS-SEM, this article proposes and verifies a model among Gen Z that captures the relationship between attitudes towards the environmental ecosystem and green tourism, personal and social norms regarding pro-environmental behaviour, perceived b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,114 Views
13 Pages

Identifying the Antecedents of University Students’ Usage Behaviour of Fitness Apps

  • Jo-Hung Yu,
  • Gordon Chih-Ming Ku,
  • Yu-Chih Lo,
  • Che-Hsiu Chen and
  • Chin-Hsien Hsu

12 August 2021

The purpose of the study is to explore the antecedents of university students’ fitness application usage behaviours by combining the theory of planned behaviour and the technology acceptance model. An anonymous questionnaire survey was adopted to add...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
11,840 Views
20 Pages

20 August 2020

This paper examines consumers’ behaviours towards mobile advertising alerts offered by branded mobile apps in the fashion industry. While consumer-driven factors have attracted much attention, little research has examined the impact of data-dri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,403 Views
27 Pages

3 August 2023

This paper investigates university students’ motivations in nature park conservation, an area that has received limited research attention compared to other pro-environmental behaviours. By formulating a set of research hypotheses, an extended...

  • Article
  • Open Access
151 Citations
19,225 Views
34 Pages

20 May 2015

An Extended Decomposed Theory of Planned Behaviour (DTPB) is developed that integrates emotions towards car driving and electric cars as well as car driving habits of the DTPB, and is empirically validated in a Belgian sample (n = 1023). Multi-group...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,318 Views
15 Pages

Getting Young Drivers to Buckle Up: Exploring the Factors Influencing Seat Belt Use by Young Drivers in Malaysia

  • Ahmad Nazrul Hakimi Ibrahim,
  • Muhamad Nazri Borhan and
  • Nor Aznirahani Mhd Yunin

25 December 2020

Many car drivers in Malaysia, especially young drivers, ignore the importance of wearing seat belts. This questionnaire study employed an extended version of the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) by including habit as a new construct to explain the f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,338 Views
30 Pages

With the escalating environmental issues, the imperatives to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and advance energy products through innovation, energy production, and consumption frequently result in environmental externalities. Conventional markets f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,265 Views
18 Pages

There are many factors that affect vitamin D supplementation, including those from the theory of planned behaviour (TPB); however, how the perceived benefit acts in the model remains unknown. In the current study, we tested the efficacy of the TPB an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,582 Views
14 Pages

Investigating the Determinants of Greek Households Food Waste Prevention Behaviour

  • Theodora Kritikou,
  • Dimosthenis Panagiotakos,
  • Konstantinos Abeliotis and
  • Katia Lasaridi

16 October 2021

Food waste prevention is globally an urgent policy priority. Multiple studies have demonstrated that in the developed world, households are the main producers of food waste along the food supply chain, being responsible for about half of the edible f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
9,040 Views
16 Pages

The Impact of Environmental Concern on Intention to Reduce Consumption of Single-Use Bottled Water

  • Barbara Borusiak,
  • Andrzej Szymkowiak,
  • Bartłomiej Pierański and
  • Katarzyna Szalonka

2 April 2021

The plastic bottles that are used for packaging water are harmful to the environment. The objective of this study was to examine the influence of consumers’ environmental concern on both their intention to reduce consumption of water sold in single-u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,632 Views
19 Pages

Promoting Physical Activity Habits after Completing Secondary School: Does the Age Matter?

  • María Huertas González-Serrano,
  • Rómulo Jacobo González-García,
  • Ana Gómez-Tafalla,
  • Ignacio Refoyo Román,
  • Fernando García-Pascual and
  • Ferran Calabuig

Physical inactivity is one of the most important problems in our society, especially during adolescence. During this stage of schooling, students practice physical activity in physical education classes, but after they finish school, many of them sto...

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