The applicability of the theory of planned behavior to the intention to quit smoking across workplaces in southern taiwan
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Theory of planned behavior
After researching many motivational theories, the theory of planned behavior (TPB; Ajzen 1988Ajzen 1991), which is an extension of the theory of reasoned action (TRA; Ajzen & Fishbein 1980), was chosen as the basis to understand the intention to quit smoking in this study because it is considered the most integrated theory to explain human social behaviors (Conner & Norman 1994; Conner 1993; Weinstein 1993). According to Ajzen 1988, many behaviors are not fully under volitional control, and, to
Participants
Participants were recruited from three companies in southern Taiwan. Those from a large public steel-manufacturing company (hereafter referred to as Company A) in the city of Kaushong were used for model building, and those from two small private auto-parts-manufacturing companies (hereafter referred to as Companies B and C) in the city of Tainan served to cross-validate the model. Because the smoking prevalence of women in Taiwan is relatively low (3%; Yen, Pan, Yen, & Lee 1994), the inclusion
Study samples
The sociodemographic characteristics of the learning, the intratest, and the extratest samples are listed in Table 2. We found no difference in the distribution of sociodemographic data between the learning and intratest samples, which both came from Company A. However, the distribution of the sociodemographic data in the extratest sample, which combined the participants from Companies B and C, was significantly different from that in the learning and intratest samples. Most subjects in Company
Discussion
Cigarette smoking is one of the most serious health-related problems in Taiwanese men. This study attempted to apply the TPB to Taiwanese smokers to understand the determinants of the intention to quit smoking across workplaces. Consistent with previous TPB studies (Ajzen 1991; DeVellis, Blalock, & Sandler 1990; Godin 1993; Godin, Valois, Lepage, & Desharnais 1992), we found that TPB predicted intention better than TRA. Perceived behavioral control contributed to this prediction more
Acknowledgements
This study was supported by Grant NSC-83-0301-H-003-021 from the National Science Council of Taiwan. The first author thanks her dissertation committee members, Moon Chen, Catherine Heaney, and Jeptha Hostetler, for their guidance and assistance.
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