The Theory of Planned Behavior: Selected Recent Advances and Applications

Michael Bosnjak; Icek Ajzen; Peter Schmidt

doi:10.5964/ejop.v16i3.3107

The Theory of Planned Behavior: Selected Recent Advances and Applications

Eur J Psychol. 2020 Aug 31;16(3):352-356. doi: 10.5964/ejop.v16i3.3107. eCollection 2020 Aug.

Authors

Michael Bosnjak¹, Icek Ajzen², Peter Schmidt^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ ZPID - Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information, Trier, Germany.
² Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA.
³ Centre for Development and Environment (ZEU), University of Gießen, Gießen, Germany.
⁴ Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany.

Abstract

This editorial gives a brief introduction to the articles included in the thematic section of Europe's Journal of Psychology, which is devoted to selected recent advances and applications of the theory of planned behavior (TPB). The five contributions address two thematic streams: (1) adjustments and extensions of the original theory and (2) applications of the TPB in public health and the political sciences.

Keywords: editorial; theory adjustments; theory applications; theory extensions; theory of planned behavior.

Publication types

Editorial