Self-efficacy, controllability and intention in the theory of planned behavior: Measurement redundancy or causal independence?

Psychology and Health

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 79-91

  Rhodes, Ryan E ^a   Courneya, Kerry S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Perceived behavioral control; Self efficacy; Theory of planned behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037327825     PISSN: 08870446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0887044031000080665     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Ajzen, I. (1985). From intention to actions: a theory of planned behavior. In: Kuhl, J. and Beckmann, J. (Eds.), Action-Control: From Cognition to Behavior, pp. 11-39. Springer, Heidelberg.
2. Ajzen, I. (1988). Attitudes and personality traits. Attitudes, Personality, and Behavior, 1-24.
3. Ajzen, I. (1991). The theory of planned behavior. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 50, 179-211.
4. Ajzen, I. (2002a). Perceived behavioral control, self-efficacy, locus of control, and the theory of planned behavior. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 32, 665-683.
5. Ajzen, I. (2002b). Construction of a standard questionnaire for the theory of planned behavior. http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/̃aizen/
6. American College of Sports Medicine (2000). Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription. Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, Maryland.
7. Anderson, J.C. and Gerbing, D.W. (1988). Structural equation modeling in practice: a review and recommended two-step approach. Psychological Bulletin, 103, 411-423.
8. Armitage, C.J. and Conner, M. (1999a). Distinguishing perceptions of control from self-efficacy: predicting consumption of a low-fat diet using the theory of planned behavior. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 29, 72-90.
9. Armitage, C.J. and Conner, M. (1999b). The theory of planned behavior: assessment of predictive validity and 'perceived control'. British Journal of Social Psychology, 38, 35-54.
10. Armitage, C.J. and Conner, M. (2002). Efficacy of the theory of planned behavior: a meta-analytic review. British Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 471-499.
11. Armitage, C.J., Conner, M., Loach, J. and Willetts, D. (1999). Different perceptions of control: applying an extended theory of planned behavior to legal and illegal drug use. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 21, 301-316.
12. Bandura, A. (1997). Self-Efficacy, the Exercise of Control. Freeman, New York, NY.
13. Bandura, A. (1998). Health promotion from the perspective of social cognitive theory. Psychology and Health, 13, 623-649.
14. Bollen, K.A. (1989). Structural Equations with Latent Variables. Wiley, New York.
15. Conner, M. and Armitage, C.J. (1998). Extending the theory of planned behavior: a review and avenues for further research. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 28(15), 1429-1464.
16. Courneya, K.S. (1994). Predicting repeated behavior from intention: the issue of scale correspondence. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 24, 580-594.
17. Courneya, K.S., Bobick, T.M. and Schinke, R.J. (1999a). Does the theory of planned behavior mediate relation between personality and exercise behavior. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 21, 317-324.
18. Courneya, K.S. and Friedenreich, C.M. (1997). Determinants of exercise during colorectal cancer treatment: an application of the theory of planned behavior. Oncology Nursing Forum, 24, 1715-1723.
19. Courneya, K.S., Friedenreich, C.M., Arthur, K. and Bobick, T.M. (1999b). Understanding exercise motivation in colorectal cancer patients: a prospective study using the theory of planned behavior. Rehabilitation Psychology, 44(1), 68-84.
20. Dillman, D.A. (1983). Mail and other self-administered questionnaires. In: Rossi, P.H., Wright, J.D. and Anderson, A.B. (Eds.), Handbook of Survey Research, pp. 359-378. Academic Press, Toronto, ON.
21. Fishbein, M. (1997). Predicting, understanding, and changing socially relevant behaviors: lessons learned. In: McGarty, C. and Haslam, A.S. (Eds.), The Message of Social Psychology: Perspectives on Mind in Society, pp. 77-101. Blackwell Publishers Inc., Malden, MA.
22. Gist, M. and Mitchell, T. (1992). Self-efficacy: a theoretical analysis of its determinants and malleability. Academy of Management Review, 17, 183-211.
23. Godin, G. and Kok, G. (1996). The theory of planned behavior: a review of its applications to health-related behaviors. American Journal of Health Promotion, 11(2), 8798.
24. Hayduk, L.A. (1996). LISREL Issues, Debates, and Strategies. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
25. Hu, L. and Bentler, P.M. (1995). Evaluating model fit. In: Hoyle R.H. (Ed.), Structural Equation Modeling: Concepts, Issues, and Applications, pp. 76-99. Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA.
26. Hu, L. and Bentler, P.M. (1999). Cuttoff Criteria for fit indices in covariance structure analysis: conventional criteria versus new alternatives. Structural Equation Modeling, 6, 1-55.
27. Jöreskog, K. and Sörbom, D. (1997). LISREL 8.20 for Windows. Scientific Software International Inc., Chicago, IL.
28. Kirsch, I. (1985). Self-efficacy and expectancy: old wine with new labels. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 49, 824-830.
29. Kirsch, I. (1986). Early research on self-efficacy: what we already knew we knew. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 4, 339-358.
30. Leach, M., Hennessy, M. and Fishbein, M. (2001). Perception of easy-difficult: attitude or self-efficacy? Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 31, 1-20.
31. Maibach, E. and Murphy, D.A. (1995). Self-efficacy in health promotion research and practice: conceptualization and measurement. Health Education Research, 10, 37-50.
32. Pearl, J. (2000). Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference. Cambridge University Press, New York.
33. Rhodes, R.E. and Courneya, K.S. (2002a). Investigating multiple components of attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control: a conceptual examination of the theory of planned behavior in the exercise domain. British Journal of Social Psychology, (in press).
34. Rhodes, R.E. and Courneya, K.S. (2002b). Relationships between personality, an extended theory of planned behavior model, and exercise behavior. British Journal of Health Psychology, (to appear).
35. Rhodes, R.E., Courneya, K.S. and Hayduk, L.A. (2002). Does personality moderate the theory of planned behavior in the exercise domain? Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 24, 120-132.
36. Sparks, P., Guthrie, C.A. and Shepherd, R. (1997). The dimensional structure of the perceived behavioral control construct. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 27(5), 418-438.
37. Terry, D.J. and O'Leary, J.E. (1995). The theory of planned behavior: the effects of perceived behavioral control and self-efficacy. British Journal of Social Psychology, 34, 199-220.
38. Trafimow, D., Sheeran, P., Conner, M. and Finlay, K.A. (2002). Evidence that perceived behavioral control is a multidimensional construct: perceived control and perceived difficulty. British Journal of Social Psychology, 41, 101-121.
39. White, K.M., Terry, D.J. and Hogg, M.A. (1994). Safer sex behavior: the role of attitudes, norms, and control factors. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 24, 2164-2192.