Theory of planned behaviour and religiosity in coping with the covid 19 pandemic in Malaysia

  • Muhd Najib Abdul Kadir, Ab Rahman, Z.*, Kashim, M.I.A.M., Mohd Noor, A.Y., Syaidatun Nazirah Abu Zahrin, Ahmad Fakhrurrazi Mohammed, Ahmad Zaki Hasan, Salasiah Hanin Hamjah, Hanif Md Lateh, Che Zarrina Saari, Mohd Manawi Mohd Akib, Abdul Rahim Ridzuan

Abstract

Research dealing with various aspects of the theory of planned behavior (Ajzen, 1985, 1987) is reviewed, and some unresolved issues are discussed in coping of COVID 19 disease in Malaysia. In broad terms, the theory is found to be well supported by empirical evidence. Intentions to perform behaviors of different kinds can be predicted with high accuracy from attitudes toward the behavior, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control; and these intentions, together with perceptions of behavioral control, account for considerable variance in actual behavior with religiosity aspect. Attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control and religiosity are shown to be related to appropriate sets of salient behavioral, normative, and control beliefs about the behavior, but the exact nature of these relations is still uncertain. Expectancy. value formulations are found to be only partly successful in dealing with these relations. Optimal rescaling of expectancy and value measures is offered as a means of dealing with measurement limitations. Finally, inclusion of past behavior in the prediction equation is shown to provide a means of testing the theory*s sufficiency, another issue that remains unresolved. The limited available evidence concerning this question shows that the theory is predicting behavior quite well in comparison to the ceiling imposed by religiosity elemen of COVID 19 disease in Malaysia.

Published
2020-06-01
How to Cite
Abdul Rahim Ridzuan, M. N. A. K. A. R. Z. K. M. M. N. A. S. N. A. Z. A. F. M. A. Z. H. S. H. H. H. M. L. C. Z. S. M. M. M. A. (2020). Theory of planned behaviour and religiosity in coping with the covid 19 pandemic in Malaysia. International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, 29(12s), 1634-1640. Retrieved from http://sersc.org/journals/index.php/IJAST/article/view/22859
Section
Articles