TY  - GEN
T1  - Does Changing Behavioral Intentions Engender Behavior Change? A Meta-Analysis of the Experimental Evidence.  [article].
UL  - https://tuklas.up.edu.ph/Record/UP-8027390931312519124
AB  - Numerous theories in social and health psychology assume that intentions cause behaviors. However, most tests of the intention-behavior relation involve correlational studies that preclude causal inferences. In order to determine whether changes in behavioral intention engender behavior change, participants should be assigned randomly to a treatment that significantly  increases the strength of respective intentions relative to a control condition, and differences in subsequent behavior should be compared. The present research obtained 47 experimental tests of intention-behavioral relations that  satisfied these criteria. Meta-analysis showed that a medium-to- large change in intention (d =0.66) leads to a small-to-medium change in behavior (d = 0.36). The review also identified several conceptual factors, methodological features, and intervention characteristics that moderate intention-behavior consistency.-- (from the author)
KW  - Intention.
KW  - Behavior change.
KW  - Intervention.
KW  - Meta-analysis.
ER  -