PMID: 9554085Apr 29, 1998Paper

Some tests of the distinction between attitude and perceived behavioural control

The British Journal of Social Psychology
D Trafimow, A Duran

Abstract

Although perceived behavioural control has recently become a popular variable for use in predicting behaviour or intention to behave, it is far from clear that this variable is theoretically distinguishable from attitude. Consequently, we performed some tests of the distinction between attitude and perceived behavioural control. In Expt 1, using participants from an American university, the semantic differential scales that have often been used to measure attitude and perceived behavioural control were submitted to factor analyses. Consistent with the distinction, a two-factor solution resulted in the attitude and perceived behavioural control items clearly loading on different factors. Further, Expt 2 demonstrated that the attitude factor predicts behavioural beliefs and does not predict control beliefs, but the reverse is true concerning the perceived behavioural control factor. Finally, in Expts 3-5, the beliefs presumed to underlie these two variables were cluster analysed. Consistent with the distinction, and paralleling findings obtained by Trafimow & Fishbein (1995), the order in which participants wrote down their beliefs exhibited significant clustering by belief type.

Citations

Dec 19, 1998·The Journal of Psychology·D Trafimow, J H Trafimow
Oct 2, 2001·The Journal of Social Psychology·D Trafimow, K A Finlay
Aug 3, 2011·The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB·David Trafimow, Stephen Rice
Nov 1, 2007·Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs·David Trafimow
Oct 22, 2005·The British Journal of Social Psychology·Pål KraftEspen Røysamb
Oct 13, 2007·British Journal of Health Psychology·Camille Gagné, Gaston Godin
Jan 10, 2001·Annual Review of Psychology·I Ajzen
May 16, 2000·The Journal of Social Psychology·A Duran, D Trafimow

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