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Personal Responsibility for Tornado Preparedness: Commitment or Choice? 1
Author(s) -
MULILIS JOHNPAUL,
DUVAL T. SHELLEY,
ROMBACH DANIELLE
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2001.tb02745.x
Subject(s) - preparedness , moral responsibility , tornado , obligation , psychology , variety (cybernetics) , social psychology , social responsibility , duty , moral obligation , public relations , political science , law , oceanography , artificial intelligence , computer science , geology
A review of the literature reveals that personal responsibility assumed for one's behavior clearly affects behavioral outcomes for a variety of situations, and that personal responsibility is in turn affected by a wide variety of variables. However, limited research has been conducted to determine exactly what personal responsibility fundamentally entails. While duty, moral obligation, choice, and commitment have been suggested as being integral to the concept of responsibility, few investigations have systematically varied more than one of these variables in a single experiment. The present study was conducted to investigate the effects of both choice and commitment on personal responsibility assumed for and behavioral intentions to engage in tornado preparedness. Results indicate that both choice and commitment were required to generate personal responsibility for and subsequent intentions to engage in tornado preparedness. Implications of these results are discussed.