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The Theory of Planned Behavior as a model of reasoning about fertility decisions
No full textIn this response to criticism of use of the theory of planned behavior in fertility research, the author identifies the situations in which the TPB is and is not appropriate for study of human fertility decisions and shows that the theory is not limited to static or short-term analyses, but can be used to model the dynamics of changes in beliefs and cognitions over time. This paper also shows how the micro-level TPB has been embedded by the author and colleagues in the REPRO project in macro-level social and economic contexts
Teaching different lessons with a scalable learning object: A case study
No full textDescribes a multimedia case study that was conceived as ahigh level learning object, reusable in different disciplines, and scalable in that it can be used for teaching at different levels in each discipline. Design principles are presented and the author concludes that use of the two principles - separation of application from abstraction, and instructor-guided learning about abstraction - enabled production of a learning object that could be incorporate effectively in courses for university students at different levels in different disciplines
Making the decision to have a child
No full textThe decision to have a child is influenced by many contextual factors. We consider country of residence, sex, partnership status, age, and the number of children a person already has (parity) and use the theory of planned behavior to show that these factors influence child-bearing decisions indirectly by their effects on one or more of the theory’s major predictors. Thus, for each contextual varia-ble, we identify personal attitudes toward having a child, social influences (subjec-tive norms), and life situation factors associated with perceived behavioral control and describe their role in the child-bearing decision. Our analyses are based on da-ta obtained from 38,813 respondents to the Generations and Gender Survey in eight countries: Italy, France, Germany, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Georgia and Russia. We conclude that each of the contextual variables considered plays a part in setting the background for the decision to have a child, and we explain their effects by considering the beliefs associated with attitudes to having a child, with subjective norms and with perceived behavioral control. The relative importance of different beliefs, and the relative effects of attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control vary with both national and personal context as a person goes through the life course
Who delays childbearing? The relationship between fertility, education and personality traits
No full textUsing data from the British Household Panel Survey, this paper assesses the role of personality traits on timing of motherhood and investigates whether, and in what way, personality traits can explain the differences in maternity timing between more and less educated women. We estimate a log-logistic model of the time to first child birth and show that there is a statistically significant relationship between the Big Five personality traits and timing to motherhood. The results also show that education differences in fertility timing seem to be mainly driven by high educated women who are particularly “open-minded”
Measuring theory of planned behaviour concepts with GGP data
No full textThe GGS includes four batteries of questions designed to contribute to studies of how people make four key life course decisions: to leave the family home, to form a union, to have a child (or another child), and to retire. Each battery is guided by Icek Ajzen’s social psychological theory of planned behavior (TPB), and allows study of the extent to which the different decisions (measured as intentions) are influenced by people’s attitudes to their going ahead with the decision or behaviour , their perception s of social pressure on them to go ahead or not (subjective norm), and their perceptions of the ease or difficulty with which they would be able to carry out their intention (perceived behavioural control) . The batteries are designed to permit comparison of the relative effects of attitudes, subjective norms, perceived control, and the beliefs that underlie them, across countries and other potentially heterogeneous groups, as well as across the life course decisions themselves. This paper outlines key theoretical and conceptual issues that underpin valid measurement based on the TPB in the context of life course research; provides an overview of different approaches that might be taken to measuring TPB concepts with GGP data (including comparison of measurement at the level of individual beliefs with measurement at the higher conceptual level using techniques that either agglomerate or preserve information about the underlying individual beliefs) depending on the goals of the researcher; and provides examples of country - level comparisons that use each technique in order to illustrate the strengths and limitations of each approach . The paper concludes with some comments on possible improvements to TPB measurement in future waves of the GGS, focusing on measurement of perceived behavioural control
The dynamics of the virtual organization, Organizational Learning and Organizational memory sub-project: Status of IT-based communication initiatives and proposals for knowledge sharing initiative
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Networked information resources: Electronic opportunities for users and librarians
No full textMany of the activities people perform with the Internet are new, and possibly could not have been conceived before the network became available. Describes innovative uses of the Internet by staff of two Australian universities. While the Internet provides opportunities for communication among its users, it poses challenges to the computing and information systems professionals who support them. It also presents librarians with the opportunity to apply their established skills as educators, information managers, custodians, information providers and change agents in their work with Internet users
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