Descriptive norms as an additional predictor in the theory of planned behaviour: A meta-analysis

By A. Rivis, P. Sheeran. 2003

1,267 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, General Decision Sciences, Sociology and Political Science

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In Applied Psychology

1. Martin S. Hagger
2. Nikos L. D. Chatzisarantis
3. I. Ajzen
4. P. Schmidt
5. Mark Conner
6. Inger Synnøve Moan
7. J. Rise
8. Thomas Llewelyn Webb

In General Decision Sciences

1. Martin S. Hagger
2. Nikos L. D. Chatzisarantis
3. I. Ajzen
4. Thomas Llewelyn Webb
5. Yulong Chao
6. J. Rise
7. Inger Synnøve Moan
8. S. van der Linden

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Martin S. Hagger
2. Nikos L. D. Chatzisarantis
3. I. Ajzen
4. J. Rise
5. Yulong Chao
6. Inger Synnøve Moan
7. S. van der Linden
8. Anitha Chennamaneni

Citations in the corpus

• Predicting people’s environmental behaviour: theory of planned behaviour and model of responsible environmental behaviour (2012, background): “This could be a matter of the correspondence of specificity between variables as Staats (2003) pointed out that this correspondence substantially increased the predictive power of the predictors.”
• National Rates of Opportunity Entrepreneurship Activity: Insights from Institutional Anomie Theory (2014, background): “Evidence suggests that both types of norms affect behavioral intensions and actions (Rivis & Sheeran, 2003).”
• Refinement of a Chemistry Attitude Measure for College Students. (2011, methodology): “The TPB theory has been applied in current literatures and the strong correlation between intention and behavior has been supported (Randall & Wolff, 1994; Rivis & Sheeran, 2003).”
• Peering into the “Magnum Mysterium” of Culture (2009, background): “Finally, meta-analytic evidence (Rivis & Sheeran, 2003) suggests that descriptive norms have a medium to strong correlation with behavioral intentions.”
• Charitable Intent: A Moral or Social Construct? A Revised Theory of Planned Behavior Model (2011, background): “…between social influences indicates a separate source of motivation (Deutsch and Gerard 1955) and has proved to be effective in the context of the TPB (Rivis and Sheeran 2003) as well as in understanding and promoting pro-social behaviors (e.g., Warburton and Terry 2000; White et al. 2009).”
• Understanding healthy eating behaviors at casual dining restaurants using the extended theory of planned behavior (2016, positive): “The third part assessed perceived behavioral control using four items adopted from Rivis and Sheeran (2003) (e.g., if I wanted to, I could easily choose healthful menu items with low calories at restaurants), each rated on a seven-point Likert-type scale.”
• The dual-process of reactive and intentional decision-making involved in eco-friendly behavior (2007, positive): “Although previous studies of TPB suggested that injunctive and descriptive norms may be independent factors (Heath & Gifford, 2002; Rivis & Sheeran, 2003; Nejad, Wertheim, ARTICLE IN PRESS”
• Chinese consumers’ adoption of a ‘green’ innovation – The case of organic food (2012, methodology): “Two aspects of social influence regarding buying organic vegetables, often referred to as injunctive and descriptive norms (Cialdini et al, 2006 ; Rivis & Sheeran, 2003 ), were measured with one item each.”