Do attitudes cause behavior or vice versa? An alternative conceptualization of the attitude-behavior relationship in travel behavior modeling

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 101, Issue , 2017, Pages 190-202

  Kroesen, Maarten ^a   Handy, Susan ^b   Chorus, Caspar ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Causality; Cross lagged panel model; Latent transition model; Theory of Cognitive Dissonance; Travel behavior

Indexed keywords

MODEL STRUCTURES;

ATTITUDES; CAUSALITY; COGNITIVE DISSONANCE; PANEL MODEL; TRANSITION MODEL; TRAVEL BEHAVIORS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

MODELING; PANEL DATA; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; SOCIAL THEORY; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 85019920202     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2017.05.013     Document Type: Article

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