{"id":79297,"date":"2025-11-14T19:56:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/planned-behavior-theory\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T19:56:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:56:37","slug":"planned-behavior-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/planned-behavior-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Behavior Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most widely used psychological models to explain voluntary behavior. It assumes that a person&#8217;s behavior is determined by intention, which, in turn, depends on three main components:<br \/>\n1) Attitude \u2013 a positive or negative personal assessment of behavior (for example, &#8220;Speeding makes me feel safe&#8221;).<br \/>\n2) Social norms are the influence of the expectations of significant others (family, friends, community) that support or reject behavior.<br \/>\n3) Perceived behavior control \u2013 the degree to which a person believes that they can successfully perform a behavior even when faced with difficulties (e.g., &#8220;I can follow the speed limit even on highways&#8221;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most widely used psychological models to explain voluntary behavior. It assumes that a person&#8217;s behavior is determined by intention, which, in turn, depends on three main components: 1) Attitude \u2013 a positive or negative personal assessment of behavior (for example, &#8220;Speeding makes me feel safe&#8221;). 2) Social norms are the influence of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-traffic-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}