Conner, M orcid.org/0000-0002-6229-8143, Wilding, S orcid.org/0000-0002-7977-7132 and Norman, P (2022) Testing predictors of attitude strength as determinants of attitude stability and attitude-behavior relationships: A multi-behavior study. European Journal of Social Psychology, 52 (4). pp. 656-668. ISSN 0046-2772
Abstract
There has been relatively little study of multiple predictors of attitude strength. Eight predictors (attitude certainty; attitude importance; attitude subjective knowledge; moral basis of attitude; attitude elaboration; felt ambivalence; cognitive-affective potential ambivalence; cognitive-affective inconsistency) were tested for individual and combined impact on two defining features of attitude strength (attitude temporal stability; attitude-behaviour relationship), in a prospective study over one and two months across six COVID-19 protection behaviours (N = 477). All eight predictors were individually associated with attitude stability in individual (except elaboration) and simultaneous (except elaboration and potential ambivalence) tests. All eight predictors (except elaboration and potential ambivalence) were significant moderators of attitude-behaviour relationships in individual tests; attitude importance and inconsistency were significant moderators of attitude-behaviour relationships in simultaneous tests (only former remained significant controlling for stability). The findings highlight attitude importance as the strongest predictor of attitude strength reflected in their impact on attitude stability and attitude-behaviour relationships.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. © 2022 The Authors. European Journal of Social Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. |
Keywords: | Attitude; attitude strength, temporal stability of attitude; attitude-behaviour relationship |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Psychology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 15 Feb 2022 12:58 |
Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2023 01:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/ejsp.2844 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:183591 |