Attitudes, Personality and Behaviour
Published on 16. December 1988
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-0-335-15342-8 (ISBN)
Description
Explores the roots of the dilemma of behavioural consistency and reviews the solutions that have reinvigorated the field over the past two decades.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Milton Keynes
United Kingdom
Illustrations
bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
250 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-335-15342-8 (9780335153428)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Icek Ajzen is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA.
Content
Attitudes and personality traits - how they are defined and measured; behaviourial consistency - theory and research in personality and social psychology; the principle of aggregation - creating stability and consistency; moderating variables - effects of individual differences, characteristics of the disposition, situational factors, and type of behaviour; theory of planned behaviour - prediction of specific actions with varying degrees of volitional control.