Planned Behavior

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The, Theory of Planned Behavior/Reasoned Action, was developed by Martin Fishbein and Icek Ajzen. It was formulated in 1980 and came from attitude research from the Expectancy Value Model. Both Ajzen and Fishbein formulate this theory after trying to calculate the difference between attitude and behavior. It started as a way to try and predict a person's intention to engage in a certain behavior at certain places or times. The theory was meant to try and explain the behaviors over which the subjects have the skill to apply self control.
This theory is the idea that there are three reasons why people do what they do. The three reasons are: attitude towards action/behavior, subjective norms likes what is popular and perceived
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Sexually transmitted diseases are very prevalent in African American Woman. According to the CDC,“60 percent of all the women living with HIV in the US are African American and two out of the three got HIV from having unprotected sex with a man.” “From a cognitive self-regulation perspective, the TPB proposes that the intention to engage in a behavior predicts the likelihood of its performance” (Ajzen I. The theory of planned behavior. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 1991;50:179–211.) Within the context of condom use, attitudes hint to the extent to which a woman has a supportive opinion of using condoms. Research has shown that African American Women’s agreeable feelings toward condoms are a definite indicator of intentions to use …show more content…
However, condom use was not as important to them. For instance, “For example, although an HIV prevention intervention increased self-efficacy to use condoms for African American women, condom use self-efficacy was not significantly associated with condom use post-intervention”( Crosby RA, DiClemente RJ, Salazar LF, Wingood GM, McDermott-Sales J, Young AM, Rose E AIDS Behav. 2013 Mar;