The knowledge-to-intention gap for information ethics within university students: Investigating the factors of the theory of planned behavior

• TANAKA Koji

  College of Informatics and Human Communication, Kanazawa Institute of Technology

• MIWA Honomi

  Graduate School of Informatics, Kansai University

• IKEDA Mitsuru

  School of Knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

• HORI Masahiro

  Faculty of Informatics, Kansai University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 大学生の情報モラル行動における知識と行動意図の不一致：計画的行動理論における規定因に基づく検討
• ダイガクセイ ノ ジョウホウ モラル コウドウ ニ オケル チシキ ト コウドウ イト ノ フイッチ : ケイカクテキ コウドウ リロン ニ オケル キテイイン ニ モトズク ケントウ

Abstract

Two experiments that utilized knowledge and intention tasks were conducted to investigate the knowledge-to-intention gap within university students. The knowledge task asked about appropriate behaviors in terms of general knowledge, while the intention task asked about the actions that the participants themselves would select. Irrespective of whether already possessing relevant knowledge, the participants of both experiments were presented with unethical behaviors. In Experiment 1, the proportions of participants who maintained ethical behaviors within both tasks were higher than the proportions of high-school students. Experiment 2 also investigated the three factors of the theory of planned behavior; namely, attitude (ATT), subjective norms (SN), and perceived behavioral control (PBC). The results indicated that, irrespective of factor, positively evaluated behaviors were selected when complying in the intention task. However, the results varied according to factor, when unethical behaviors were selected. More specifically, with respect to ATT, compliant behaviors were evaluated positively while noncompliant behaviors were evaluated negatively, but the results were reversed with regard to PBC. No significant differences related to SNs were observed for ethical and unethical behaviors.

Journal

• The Japanese Journal of Cognitive Psychology

  The Japanese Journal of Cognitive Psychology 17 (1), 11-25, 2019-08-31

  The Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology

Keywords

• knowledge-to-intention gap
• information ethics
• behavioral intention
• the theory of planned behavior

Details

• CRID: 1390001277348960000
• NII Article ID: 130007706589
• NII Book ID: AA11971335
• DOI: 10.5265/jcogpsy.17.11
• ISSN: 21850321
• ISSN: 13487264
• NDL BIB ID: 029991213
• Web Site: http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/029991213
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I029991213
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jcogpsy/17/1/17_11/_pdf
• Text Lang: ja
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