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To Be a Donor or Not to Be? Applying an Extended Theory of Planned Behavior to Predict Posthumous Organ Donation Intentions
Author(s) -
Hyde Melissa K.,
White Katherine M.
Publication year - 2009
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.1559-1816.2009.00464.x
Subject(s) - theory of planned behavior , psychology , social psychology , donation , organ donation , legal norm , perspective (graphical) , identity (music) , norm (philosophy) , control (management) , transplantation , law , medicine , computer science , physics , surgery , artificial intelligence , political science , acoustics
Using a theory of planned behavior (TPB) perspective, individual intentions to register and discuss the decision of organ donation with significant others were examined. In addition to standard TPB variables (attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control [PBC]), self‐identity and moral norm were incorporated into the TPB as predictors. Australian university students ( N = 303) completed a survey comprising standard and additional TPB constructs. Separate analyses were conducted for both registered and nonregistered participants. In general, results provide support for the extended TPB model in predicting intentions to register and discuss the donation decision, with the exceptions that self‐identity did not predict discussion intentions for either registered or nonregistered participants, and PBC did not predict discussion intentions for nonregistered participants.