Predicting the Intention to Quit Smoking in a Norwegian Sample
An Extended Theory of Planned Behaviour in Light of Construal Level Theory
Abstract
The aim of the present study was to examine the relations between an extended Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and the intention to quit smoking in light of Construal Level Theory (CLT). The basic reasoning of CLT is that psychological distance influences people’s thoughts and behaviour. 192 Norwegian students with daily smoking habits were asked to complete a questionnaire. Half the students responded to intention to quit smoking in 1 month, the other half, to quit in 6 months. As predicted by the CLT, the results showed that there was an overall tendency in favour of significantly stronger correlations between the theoretical predictors and intention to quit in 6 months than for the intention to quit in 1 month. Also consistent with CLT, this pattern did not hold for the relationship between perceived behavioural control (PBC) and intention, with significantly stronger correlations for the 1-month condition. The results may have important implications for the prediction of long-term versus short-term intention and the inclusion of additional predictors in the TPB.
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