Intention Formation Research Articles

Navigating entrepreneurial terrain: The role of technology readiness and gender in shaping intentions

The pervasive influence of information technology across various life sectors, particularly in the business realm, has prompted this study to investigate the impact of technology readiness on entrepreneurial intentions within a student context. A purposive sampling method was employed to select a sample comprising 213 college students, and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was utilized to assess the interrelationships among the study's constructed variables. The findings underscore the significant impact of technology readiness on attitudes, which, in turn, plays a pivotal role in shaping entrepreneurial intentions. Furthermore, the research highlights the influential roles of subjective norms and perceived behavioral control in the formation of entrepreneurial intentions. Conversely, results from the Multi-Group Analysis (MGA) do not support the gender variable as a moderating factor. However, a noteworthy revelation emerges from the bootstrapping analysis, unveiling gender-based differences in the influence of subjective norm variables on entrepreneurial intentions when comparing male and female groups.

"Consumed by creed": Obsessive-compulsive symptoms underpin ideological obsession and support for political violence.

Radicalization is a process by which individuals are introduced to an ideological belief system that encourages political, religious, or social change through the use of violence. Here we formulate an obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) model of radicalization that links obsessive passion (OP; one of the best predictors of radical intentions) to a larger body of clinical research. The model's central tenet is that individual differences in OCD symptom severity could shape radical intentions via their influence on OP. Across four ideological samples in the United States (Environmental activists, Republicans, Democrats, and Muslims, Ntotal = 1114), we found direct effects between OCD symptom severity and radical intentions, as well as indirect effects of OCD on radical intentions via OP. Even after controlling for potential individual difference and clinical confounds (e.g., adverse childhood experiences, loss of significance, and substance abuse), these relationships remained robust, implying that OCD plays a significant role in the formation of violent ideological intentions and opening new avenues for the treatment and prevention of violent extremism. We discuss the implications of conceptualizing radicalization as an OCD-like disorder with compulsive violent tendencies and ideology-related concerns.

Public participation behavior in “Internet plus tree-planting” in China: A comparison between government-led and enterprise-led modes

Among the existing modes of “Internet plus tree-planting” in China, the government-led mode is represented by “Internet plus national voluntary tree planting”, and the enterprise-led mode is represented by “Ant Forest”. Now, the public enthusiasm for participating in both modes has declined. We investigated the factors influencing public participation in “Internet plus tree-planting” activities of the two modes, with a view to providing better suggestions for solving the dilemma of public participation. This paper examines the factors that influence public participation in “Internet plus tree-planting” of these two different modes. We combine the theory of planned behavior (TPB) with Knowledge-Attitude-Practice (KAP). Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is used to explore the formation of public intention and behavior practice for the two modes and compares the differences between them. Results show that subjective norm has the greatest effect on public participation in national voluntary tree planting but has no effect on public participation in Ant Forest. On the contrary, the total effect of outcome efficacy on public participation behavior has the least weight in national voluntary tree planting, while the conclusion is the opposite for Ant Forest. This paper contributes to researchers' understanding of the two participation behaviors. In addition, suggestions on promoting integrated forms of the two modes were proposed for policymakers: (1) Keep channels of communication open and attract emerging forces. (2) Popularize environmental knowledge and improve environmental protection literacy. (3) Enrich interactive content and improve incentive policies. (4) Create an integration platform and foster two-way linkage between government and enterprises.

Social cognitive predictors of regular dental visits and mouth self-examination behaviors among the elderly population: An application of the health action process approach model.

The present study aimed to identify the social cognitive predictors of regular dental visits and mouth self-examination behaviors among the elderly population, based on the Health Action Process Approach (HAPA) model. Regular dental visits and mouth self-examination can prevent oral and dental problems among the elders. Little information is available regarding the social cognitive predictive factors of these two behaviors. A cross-sectional study was conducted in 24 municipality centers in Tehran, Iran in 2021. The centers were selected randomly using a multi-stage cluster sampling method and 301 elderly attendants aged 60≥years participated in the study. Data collection was done using a researcher-made questionnaire including demographic characteristics and the HAPA model constructs for two target behaviors. Data were analyzed using the Smart-PLS version 3.3.9 via correlation and PLS-SEM analysis. The mean age of the participants was 65.3±5.33 years and 79.7% were female. The SEM analysis showed that Action Self-Efficacy [b (SD) = 0.595 (0.065), P< 0.001] and Risk Perception [b (SD) = 0.218 (0.070), P< 0.002] were predictors of Intention for mouth self-examination but only Action Self-Efficacy [b (SD) = 0.651 (0.043), P< 0.001] was predictor of Intention for regular dental visits. Recovery Self-Efficacy and Planning directly contributed to the prediction of Mouth Self-Examination. The relationship between Maintenance Self-Efficacy and both behaviors is mediated by Planning. Also, the mediating role of Planning between Intention and target behaviors was confirmed. Action self-efficacy predicted the intention for regular dental visits and mouth self-examination behaviors. The relationship between intention and both behaviors was mediated by Planning. Emphasis on improving Action Self-Efficacy and Intention formation will enhance the effectiveness of interventions aiming at promoting the oral health of the elderly population.

Intent-informed state estimation for tracking guided targets

This paper proposes a state estimation and prediction for tracking guided targets using intent information. A conditionally Markov process is used to describe the destination-oriented target motion, and the collision intent is incorporated through the zero-effort-miss guidance information. The expected arrival time necessary for the conditionally Markov model is determined through the collision geometry and destination motion. Finally, the Kalman filter technique is used to estimate and predict the target state. Numerical simulations demonstrate that the proposed approach can improve state estimation accuracy in both static and dynamic destination cases.

STDFormer: Spatial-Temporal Motion Transformer for Multiple Object Tracking

Mainstream multi-object tracking methods exploit appearance information and/or motion information to achieve interframe association. However, dealing with similar appearance and occlusion is a challenge for appearance information, while motion information is limited by linear assumptions and is prone to failure in nonlinear motion patterns. In this work, we disregard appearance clues and propose a pure motion tracker to address the above issues. It dexterously utilizes Transformer to estimate complex motion and achieves high-performance tracking with low computing resources. Furthermore, contrastive learning is introduced to optimize feature representation for robust association. Specifically, we first exploit the long-range modeling capability of Transformer to mine intention information in temporal motion and decision information in spatial interaction and introduce prior detection to constrain the range of motion estimation. Then, we introduce contrastive learning as an auxiliary task to extract reliable motion features to compute affinity and introduce bidirectional matching to improve the affinity computation distribution. In addition, given that both tasks are dedicated to narrowing the embedding distance between the motion features of the tracked object and the detection features, we design a joint-motion-and-association framework to unify the above two tasks in one framework for optimization. The experimental results achieved with three benchmark datasets, MOT17, MOT20 and DanceTrack, verify the effectiveness of our proposed method. Compared with state-of-the-art methods, the proposed STDFormer sets a new state-of-the-art on DanceTrack and achieves competitive performance on MOT17 and MOT20. This demonstrates the advantage of our method in handling associations under similar appearance, occlusion or nonlinear motion. At the same time, the significant advantages of the proposed method over Transformer-based and contrastive learning-based methods suggest a new direction for the application of Transformer and contrastive learning in MOT. In addition, to verify the generalization of STDFormer in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) videos, we also evaluate STDFormer on VisDrone2019. The results show that STDFormer achieves state-of-the-art performance on VisDrone2019, which proves that it can handle small-scale object associations in UAV videos well. The code is available at https://github.com/Xiaotong-Zhu/STDFormer.

The formation of citizens' intentions to purchase prefabricated housing in China: the integrating theory of planned behavior and norm activation model

PurposeThis study aims to develop an improved understanding of the formation of citizens' purchase intention to increase the adoption of prefabricated housing (PH).Design/methodology/approachAn integrative model of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and norm activation model (NAM) was proposed based on previous studies. To verify the conceptual model, an analysis was conducted after data collection from a questionnaire survey. Lastly, findings were presented by explaining the formation of purchase intention in the egoistic and altruistic contexts. Practical implications were likewise discussed.FindingsFindings manifest that citizens' purchase intention is influenced by egoistic and altruistic cognitions. An effective strategy is to show citizens the pro-environmental features of PH to promote its adoption because they value the environmental performance of housing. Meanwhile, consumers' social fitness also plays an essential role in decision-making, and the dual contradiction in the PH market is revealed.Originality/valueThis study extends the knowledge of psychological decision-making theories in the field of purchase intention toward PH by proposing an integrative framework of TPB and NAM. Results indicate a systematic and comprehensive understanding of consumers' decision-making in the PH domain. Moreover, results of this research contribute to specifying and refining the applicable contexts of TPB and NAM by adding two antecedents: subjective knowledge and environmental concern. This research contributes to the literature by being one of the first to investigate purchase intention toward a high-cost product with invisible technological innovation.

Correlates of residents' enrolment intention toward inclusive commercial health insurance in China: involvement, perceived benefit, perceived sacrifice, and government participation.

As an application of inclusive finance in health insurance, inclusive commercial health insurance (ICHI) is a new public-private partnership-based health insurance scheme and has been vigorously promoted by the Chinese government in recent years to develop China Multi-level Health Insurance System, a system that aims to seek a mix of public and private sources to provide more affordable financial protection to all levels of society in line with their needs. However, the overall enrolment of ICHI scheme is still at a low level, and little is known about what influences residents' enrolment intentions. The aim of this study was to examine the multidimensional factors influencing residents' behavioral intentions and to develop a multivariate conceptual model to explore the psychographic process in the formation of enrolment intention. The empirical data used for model validation were obtained from a cross-sectional study conducted in Nanjing, China, a representative pilot city of ICHI scheme in 2022. Exploratory factor analysis, ANOVA, standard multiple regression, and hierarchical multiple regression were mainly employed for hypothesis testing. The findings revealed that involvement, perceived benefit, and perceived sacrifice are all crucial psychographic process factors in the formation of residents' enrolment intentions. Government participation positively moderates the influence path of "perceived benefit-enrolment intention" but negatively moderates the path of "perceived sacrifice-enrolment intention". Moreover, it was discovered that perceived benefit mediates the effect of involvement on enrolment intention, while perceived sacrifice does not. Improving residents' perceived benefit and involvement degree of the product, as well as reducing their perceived sacrifice, are both key to increasing their enrolment intentions. This study also points out that one of the main dilemmas in the current development of ICHI scheme is the low level of involvement among residents, and that optimizing the product design to make it more relevant to residents' lives is a more beneficial strategy to increase overall involvement.

Mother's Behavior Attachment Model in Care for Stunting Prevention in Bangkalan District

Background: Stunting is a state of malnutrition associated with past nutritional insufficiency so that it is included in a chronic nutritional problem. Based on data from a study on nutritional status in Indonesia in 2021, the prevalence of stunting in Bangkalan Regency is the highest among other districts in East Java, namely 38.9%, while the incidence of stunting in Indonesia is 24% (SSGI, 2021). This shows that there are high cases of stunting among toddlers in East Java, especially in Bangkalan.Purpose: This study aims to develop a model of attachment behavior for mothers in stunting prevention care in Bangkalan Regency.Methods: The research design used was analytic observational with a cross-sectional approach. The sample size is 190 mothers who have stunted children. Technical sampling using multistage random sampling and proportionate stratified random sampling technique. Latent variables (Variable X) in this study were attitude, personal agency, knowledge, maternal parenting intentions, environmental barriers, and habits, and the dependent variable (Y) in this study was the mother's attachment behavior with 19 observed variables or indicators. The analysis technique used is SEM-PLS. Results: The latent variables that have significance for the attachment behavior of mothers in stunting prevention care are knowledge and intentions. The attitude variable directly and significantly influences the mother's attitude in forming intentions that lead to attachment behavior of the mother in caring for stunting prevention in children under two years old. Mothers who have high intentions to care for their children will be followed by concrete actions in the form of attachment behavior in the form of stunting prevention care. Mothers who have good knowledge about how to prevent stunting, the causes of stunting, and the short-term or long-term effects of stunting will move the mother and attach the mother to her baby. Attitude is one of the factors that influence the formation of a mother's intention in the behavior of a mother's caring attachment to her child.Conclusion: Knowledge and intention variables shape mother's attachment behavior in stunting prevention care. Mother's attitude influences the mother's intention in attachment behavior in stunting prevention care.

Factors of forming an aggressive motive for crimes against life and health committed with the use of firearms

Domestic criminological science faces an important task of developing measures to prevent violent assaults with the use of firearms and their factors. The purpose of the article is to develop crime prevention measures taking into account the determination of crimes against life and health committed with the use of firearms. The article’s task is to determine the motives of crimes against life and health committed with the use of firearms.&#x0D; The mechanism of criminal behavior can be understood as a system of correlated algorithmic actions conditioned by a favorable objective reality, a set of mental states and processes, and behavioral acts sufficient for realizing a socially dangerous intention. One of the aspects of this algorithm is the formation of a criminal motive as a prerequisite for the will (decision) to commit a crime. The main motive of the violent crimes with the use of firearms that we investigate is aggressive. Additional motives: 1) selfish, 2) hooligan, 3) revenge, 4) jealousy, 5) intimidation; 6) self-defense.&#x0D; Formation of motives for criminal offenses against life and health with the use of firearms occurs under the influence of various circumstances of the surrounding social environment.&#x0D; The use of a weapon during an attack significantly increases the attacker’s ability to overcome the physical resistance of a victim who does not have such a weapon of protection. The understanding of this circumstance is a motivating factor in the criminal’s behavior. According to this, the spread of illegal firearms from the areas of hostilities will obviously negatively impact the country’s criminogenic situation.&#x0D; Victims sometimes use their provocative behavior to form a motive for aggressive actions against them.&#x0D; A low educational level can contribute to the formation of antisocial intentions in a person and their implementation in illegal behavior.&#x0D; Previous criminal experience is a significant factor in the formation of criminal motivation of persons who commit violent crimes with the use of firearms.&#x0D; The specified circumstances must be taken into account when developing measures to prevent criminal offenses (crimes) against life and health with the use of firearms.

Tone management and stock price crash risk

Managers have substantial discretion over qualitative disclosures. At the same time, disclosure tone is an important source of information to investors. In this study, I examine the relation between tone management and future stock price crash risk. Consistent with the view that managers use their discretion over disclosure tone for intentional information management, I find that tone management in the Management Discussion and Analysis of 10-K files is, on average, positively associated with future stock price crash risk, even after controlling for quantitative crash determinants and financial disclosure readability. Cross-sectional analyses reveal that the effect is more pronounced when managers have more incentives and are less constrained in manipulating disclosure tone. Collectively, my results suggest that tone management can have greater and broader capital market consequences than previously documented.

Dispel the Clouds and See the Sun: Influencing Factors and Multiple Paths of User Retention Intention Formation.

To achieve user retention through multifactor synergy, Internet enterprises must reduce costs and increase efficiency and sustainable development. In response to the dilemma that Internet companies are experiencing increasingly high user acquisition costs and serious user churn, this paper investigates a sample of 46,695 user reviews of nine product series from Xiaomi Ecological Chain. Case studies and qualitative comparative analysis are used to explore the influence mechanisms of quality of experience, brand trust, and brand attachment on users' retention intentions. Our findings are as follows. (1) Brand attachment alone is not necessary for high user retention intention, but user perception, cognition, and brand trust are necessary. (2) Quality of experience positively impacts brand trust, attachment, and user retention intention. Therefore, improving user perception and cognition is critical in generating high user retention intention. (3) Five configuration paths can achieve high user retention intention, while three configuration paths lead to low user retention intention, and there is an asymmetric relationship between these paths. Among them, the role of quality of experience-driven configuration paths in generating user retention intention is the most prominent. (4) User perception and cognition can substitute with brand trust and attachment in the substitution relationship between configuration paths. Our findings have important theoretical and practical implications for revealing the realization paths of high user retention intention in Internet companies and provide a new perspective for future research.

The Analysis of Residents' Intention to Consume Pre-Made Dishes in China: A Grounded Theory.

The demand for pre-made dishes has increased in China. However, a detailed understanding of residents' intention to consume pre-made dishes is lacking in the existing studies. This research aims to investigate the consumer motives and intention to consume pre-made dishes. Through in-depth interviews and analysis, this research explores the factors influencing the residents' intention along the research steps of grounded theory. Fifty-one residents participated in semi-structured interviews via face-to-face or online interviews. Three motives for purchasing pre-made dishes were attitude, subjective norm, and perceived control. These were influenced by external factors, including environmental features and product features. Subjective characteristics are pre-existing characteristics of individuals themselves, including cooking skills, food skills, housework allocation, and eating attitudes, which play a moderating role in the relationship between external factors and consumer motives. Based on the six major categories, this study built a model of the formation mechanism of the consumer intention to consume pre-made dishes. It revealed the psychological attribution of residents' consumption of pre-made dishes. The finding of this study contributes to the understanding of the internal logic of PMDs' consumer intention formation. It would be a guide for researchers to map out appropriate business development strategies, and provide evidence for the government in formulating management policies.

Understanding the Influencing Mechanism of Users’ Purchase Intention and Mediating Effect of Trust in Streamer: A Socio-Technical Perspective

Purpose This study primarily aims to investigate the role of trust in the streamer in the formation path of purchase intention and the influencing factors of both trust in the streamer and purchase intention. Theoretical framework: Given that live streaming e-commerce possesses strong social attributes and requires technological means to facilitate remote social interactions, we have chosen to adopt the socio-technical theory as the theoretical foundation for this study. Design/methodology/approach: This study employs an empirical research approach and utilizes random sampling to distribute questionnaires to users of the Douyin platform. We select users who have an intention to purchase or have prior purchasing experience on the live streaming platform for our survey. Findings: According to the findings of the study, identification, two-way communication, and visibility have a significant impact on purchase intention. Trust in the streamer serves as a mediating factor in the relationship between these three variables and purchase intention. Synchronization cannot directly influence purchase intention and cannot impact purchase intention through trust in streamer either. Research, practical &amp; social implications: For theoretical implications, prior research rarely delved into how trust in a streamer affects purchase intention. This study addresses this gap and helps researchers explore this field further. It explores the role of trust in streamer in shaping purchase intention, also offering practical strategies for retailers to enhance trust. Originality /value: This study innovates by breaking down trust into trust in the streamer to examine its impact on purchase intention formation. Future research can explore trust from different perspectives, offering new insights into trust in live streaming commerce.

An Eye Tracking and Brain–Computer Interface-Based Human–Environment Interactive System for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Patients

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) patients suffer a great inconvenience in their daily lives due to the gradual loss of their motion abilities. In order to help ALS patients regain their self-care abilities at a certain level, an eye-tracking and brain-computer interface (BCI) based human-environment interactive (HEI) system is proposed. Through a single-channel EEG recorder and a pair of eye-tracking glasses, the user’s attention levels and gaze points are detected. Based on the two types of intention information, the target objects are recognized by a YOLOv5 (You Only Look Once v5) model. Then according to voice instructions, users can control the household electric appliances. The system performed a high success rate of 89.3% experimentally, providing a reliable and capable assistive solution for ALS patients.

Understanding prospective and actual users of campus-based electric moped sharing from a behavioral reasoning perspective – Insights from Taiwan

Shared transportation services using electric two-wheelers have been appearing in cities worldwide. They have the potential to reduce the burden of private, fossil-fueled vehicles on urban areas. Residents' acceptance and adoption behavior needs to be understood by policymakers, planners, and operators in order to promote such services. Campus-like settings, such as universities, can serve as nuclei for these new services. Taiwan has one of the highest moped densities in the world. Young people are the largest user segment of electric moped sharing, which is under researched. The purpose of this research is to investigate the subjective barriers and facilitators that drive the formation of (continued) usage intentions. Empirical and qualitative data from 443 users and non-users of an electric moped sharing in Kaohsiung are collected. This facilitates an investigation using structural equation modelling and multi-group analysis. We find different groups of respondents have different reasons for and against adoption intentions based on their mode use habits, demographic features, and word associations. Some modes habits are associated with higher usage intentions, while others are not. The results and insights may prove useful for policymakers or operators seeking to increase uptake of electric moped sharing services.

A REVIEW OF LITERATURE ON ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION THEORIES AND RESEARCH

This study aims to review and identify the existing theoretical framework in the area of entrepreneurial intention and understand the importance of encouraging and teaching entrepreneurial behaviours to youths by planting the seed of intention in their mind and also studying the key predictors that lead to having such an intention in the first place. This study may help various institutions, policymakers, practitioners and researchers understand the formation of entrepreneurial intentions so that they can inspire further research on such topics. KEYWORDS: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial intention, Entrepreneurial behaviour, Entrepreneurial intention theories.

Structural Racism Within Reason

Abstract In this discussion, I engage the politics of intention to explore how structural racism structures the production of meaning and the practice of reason. Building on María Lugones's analysis of intention formation as a form of practical reasoning, I explore the reasoning at work during the 2011 Stand Your Ground (SYG) hearing of black survivor of domestic violence, Marissa Alexander, to contend that structural racism—in this case, both intimate personal violence and intimate state violence against black women—enacts race/gender domination through projecting constructed intentions onto black women as a strategy to rationalize punishing black women. I also discuss two key black feminist critiques of reason—Patricia Hill Collins’ discussion of “controlling images” (2000) and Michelle Cliff's concept of the “mythic mind” (1982)—to propose controlling intentions as a framework to theorize how structural racism produces fictive intentions used to rationalize the criminal punishment of survival and justify that outcome as common sense.

New Demographic Three-Child Policy in China

The article is devoted to the question of how ready the Chinese population is to accept the change in the goal of birth control and realize the pronatal possibilities of the new policy aimed at increasing the number of third children in the family. The relevance of a three-child family became apparent after the completion of several decades of mandatory one-child birth rate did not increase with the permission, and then with the encouragement of two-child. According to official statistics, information from publicly available sources in the media and the results of author surveys in 2018 and 2022 it is shown that the demographic reforms of 2016–2021 increased attention to the national specifics of the formation and implementation of reproductive intentions. Taking into account the experience of countries that have radically changed the vector of natal regulation, national socio-cultural and material factors contributing to the choice in favor of an increase in the number of children in the family, as well as the population groups most sensitive to pronatal measures are identified. In particular, the author’s survey of Chinese citizens who have been working abroad for several years revealed that with stable income in two-child families, the decision on a third child can be made if both children are of the same sex, and different-sex children are preferred. The prerequisites for positive prospects are the pronatal reorientation of financial, tax, insurance, labor, educational, and housing birth control measures that have proven effective during the mandatory one-child period. A new direction is the active and diverse promotion of large families, designed for categories of the population differentiated by the number of children, place of residence, income, etc. The Chinese feature is the explanatory work among the only children, many of whom do not want to share family property and parents’ attention with anyone. It is important to extend all measures to both urban and rural populations, which will allow considering the regional and demographic differentiation of the country.

Research on Online Sales of Low-Carbon Agricultural Products by New Urban Agricultural Business Entities: Evidence from Shanghai, China

Traditional agricultural business entities present environmental problems such as high energy consumption and high pollution. To achieve goals such as carbon capping and carbon neutrality, governments should encourage urban agricultural operators to sell low-carbon agricultural products online. This could play an important role in smoothing the connection between production and marketing, achieving industrial prosperity and promoting low-carbon agricultural development. This paper explores the formation and behavioral transformation of online sales intention by combining the theory of planned behavior, the Motivation–Opportunity–Ability (MOA) model, and the binary Probit regression model using data from 106 questionnaires. The study found that economic expectations and social norms can significantly improve online sales intention during the formation stage of online sales intention. Behavior control is not conducive to improving online sales intention. In addition, we found a gap between the willingness of urban agricultural operators to sell online and their behavior. This gap requires activation and adjustment of the opportunity and capability factors in the behavior transformation phase. Finally, we found that the strengthening of policy conditions and management capacity facilitated the transformation of urban agricultural operators’ willingness to sell online into behavior. This paper provides recommendations for the online sales of low-carbon agricultural products. While we continue to deepen urban agricultural operators’ knowledge of online sales, we should also pay attention to the creation of external opportunities that are suitable for the development of online sales, and identify differences in capacity among operators. This will provide precise services.