696
Views
8
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Identifying predictors of teachers’ intention and willingness to teach about cancer by using direct and belief-based measures in the context of the theory of planned behaviour

ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon & ORCID Icon
Pages 547-575 | Received 20 Mar 2019, Accepted 14 Jan 2020, Published online: 06 Feb 2020

References

  • Ajzen, I. (1991). The theory of planned behavior. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 50(2), 179–211.
  • Ajzen, I. (2011a). Behavioral intentions: Design and evaluation guided by the theory of planned behavior. In B. Campbell, M. M. Mark, & S. I. Donaldson (Eds.), Social psychology and evaluation (pp. 74–100). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
  • Ajzen, I. (2011b). The theory of planned behaviour: Reactions and reflections. Psychology & Health, 26(9), 1113–1127.
  • Ajzen, I. (2012). The theory of planned behavior. In P. A. M. Van Lange, A. W. Kruglanski, & E. T. Higgins (Eds.), The handbook of theories of social psychology (pp. 438–459). London: Sage.
  • Ajzen, I., & Fishbein, M. (2005). The influence of attitudes on behavior. In D. Albarracín, B. T. Johnson, & M. P. Zanna (Eds.), The handbook of attitudes (pp. 173–221). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
  • Ajzen, I., & Fishbein, M. (2008). Scaling and testing multiplicative combinations in the expectancy-value model of attitudes. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 38(9), 2222–2247.
  • Armitage, C. J., & Conner, M. (2001). Efficacy of the theory of planned behavior: A meta-analytic review. British Journal of Social Psychology, 40(4), 471–499.
  • Avalos, B. (2011). Teacher professional development in teaching and teacher education over ten years. Teaching and Teacher Education, 27(1), 10–20.
  • Bandura, A. (1977). Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change. Psychological Review, 84(2), 191–215. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.84.2.191
  • Barros, A., Santos, H., Moreira, L., Ribeiro, N., Silva, L., & Santos-Silva, F. (2016). The cancer, educate to prevent model: The potential of school environment for primary prevention of cancer. Journal of Cancer Education, 31(4), 646–651. doi: 10.1007/s13187-015-0892-2
  • Brown, T. A. (2015). Confirmatory factor analysis for applied research (2. ed.). Methodology in the social sciences. New York: Guilford Press.
  • Brown, S., Massey, A. P., Montoya-Weiss, M. M., & Burkman, J. R. (2002). Do I really have to? User acceptance of mandated technology. European Journal of Information Systems, 11(4), 283–295. doi: 10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000438
  • Burak, L. J. (1994). Examination and predication of elementary school teachers’ intentions to teach HIV/AIDS education. AIDS Education and Prevention, 6(4), 310–321.
  • Burak, L. J. (2002). Predicting elementary school teachers’ intentions to teach health education: An application of the theory of planned behavior. American Journal of Health Education, 33(1), 4–9.
  • Burns, E. R. (2014). Cancer prevention and control: Where are the kids? Journal of Cancer Education, 29(2), 209–210.
  • Burns, E. R., & Lindsey, M. S. (2004). Cancer education and cancer prevention education for K-12 students and teachers. Journal of Cancer Education, 19, 105–110.
  • Byrne, J., Rietdijk, W., & Pickett, K. (2018). Teachers as health promoters: Factors that influence early career teachers to engage with health and wellbeing education. Teaching and Teacher Education, 69, 289–299.
  • Carey, P. (1992). Teachers’ attitudes to cancer education: A discussion in the light of a recent English survey. Journal of Cancer Education, 7(2), 153–161.
  • Carey, P., Charlton, A., Sloper, P., & While, D. (1995). Cancer education in secondary schools. Educational Review, 47(1), 101–111.
  • Carmack, C. C., & Lewis-Moss, R. K. (2009). Examining the theory of planned behavior applied to condom use: The effect-indicator vs. Causal-indicator models. The Journal of Primary Prevention, 30(6), 659–676. doi: 10.1007/s10935-009-0199-3
  • Chatzisarantis, N. L. D., & Hagger, M. S. (2009). Effects of an intervention based on self-determination theory on self-reported leisure-time physical activity participation. Psychology & Health, 24(1), 29–48. doi: 10.1080/08870440701809533
  • Cheng, E. W. L. (2016). Maintaining the transfer of in-service teachers’ training in the workplace. Educational Psychology, 36(3), 444–460.
  • Cohen, J. N., Byers, E. S., & Sears, H. A. (2012). Factors affecting Canadian teachers’ willingness to teach sexual health education. Sex Education, 12(3), 299–316. doi: 10.1080/14681811.2011.615606
  • Cooper, G., Barkatsas, T., & Strathdee, R. (2016). The theory of planned behaviour (TPB) in educational research using structural equation modelling (SEM). In T. Barkatsas & A. Bertram (Eds.), Global learning in the 21st century (pp. 139–162). Rotterdam: Sense.
  • Cooper, G., Kenny, J., & Fraser, S. (2012). Influencing intended teaching practice: Exploring pre-service teachers’ perceptions of science teaching resources. International Journal of Science Education, 34(12), 1883–1908.
  • Courneya, K. S., Conner, M., & Rhodes, R. E. (2006). Effects of different measurement scales on the variability and predictive validity of the “two-component” model of the theory of planned behavior in the exercise domain. Psychology & Health, 21(5), 557–570.
  • Cribb, A. (1990). School teachers’ perceptions of the relative importance of cancer education in the United Kingdom. Journal of Cancer Education, 5(4), 225–229.
  • Cullinan, A. L. (1990). Teachers’ death anxiety, ability to cope with death, and perceived ability to aid bereaved students. Death Studies, 14(2), 147–160. doi: 10.1080/07481189008252356
  • Dam, M., Janssen, F. J. J. M., & van Driel, J. H. (2018). Attention to intentions—how to stimulate strong intentions to change. Research in Science Education, 48(2), 369–387. doi: 10.1007/s11165-016-9572-4
  • Demir, K. (2010). Predictors of internet use for the professional development of teachers: An application of the theory of planned behaviour. Teacher Development, 14(1), 1–14. doi: 10.1080/13664531003696535
  • Department for Education. (2015). National curriculum in England: Science programmes of study. Retrieved from https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-curriculum-in-england-science-programmes-of-study/national-curriculum-in-england-science-programmes-of-study
  • Devetak, I., Devetak, S. P., & Vesel Tajnšek, T. (2019). Developing pre-service teachers’ competencies of the management of students’ allergies in the school environment. In E. McLoughlin, O. E. Finlayson, S. Erduran, & P. E. Childs (Eds.), Bridging research and practice in science education: Selected papers from the ESERA 2017 conference (pp. 357–372). Cham: Springer.
  • Eckhart, B. (2011). To share or not to share: Cancer and what teachers should tell students about it. Talking About Teaching, 5, 43–50.
  • Enders, C. K. (2010). Applied missing data analysis. New York, NY: Guilford Press.
  • Evans, B. R. (2011). Content knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy in the mathematics New York City teaching fellows (NYCTF) program. School Science and Mathematics, 111(5), 225–235.
  • Ferlay, J., Wild, C. P., & Bray, F. (2017). The burden of cancer worldwide: Current and future perspectives. In R. C. Bast, C. M. Croce, W. Hait, W. K. Hong, D. W. Kufe, R. E. Pollock, & J. F. Holland (Eds.), Holland-Frei cancer medicine (pp. 383–398). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
  • Finch, W. H., & French, B. F. (2015). Latent variable modeling with R. New York: Routledge.
  • Finke, R., & Adamczyk, A. (2008). Cross-national moral beliefs: The influence of national religious context. The Sociological Quarterly, 49(4), 617–652. doi: 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2008.00130.x
  • Fishbein, M. (1967). Attitude and the prediction of behavior. In M. Fishbein (Ed.), Readings in attitude theory and measurement (pp. 477–492). New York, NY: Wiley.
  • Fishbein, M., & Ajzen, I. (1975). Belief, attitude, intention and behavior: An introduction to theory and research. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
  • Fishbein, M., & Ajzen, I. (2010). Predicting and changing behavior: The reasoned action approach. New York, NY: Psychology Press.
  • Frey, A., Hartig, J., & Rupp, A. A. (2009). An NCME instructional module on booklet designs in large-scale assessments of student achievement: Theory and practice. Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 28(3), 39–53.
  • Garet, M. S., Porter, A. C., Desimone, L. M., Birman, B. F., & Yoon, K. S. (2001). What makes professional development effective?: Results from a national sample of teachers. American Educational Research Journal, 38(4), 915–945.
  • Gibbons, F. X., Gerrard, M., Blanton, H., & Russell, D. W. (1998). Reasoned action and social reaction: Willingness and intention as independent predictors of health risk. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74(5), 1164–1180.
  • Graham, J. W., Taylor, B. J., Olchowski, A. E., & Cumsille, P. E. (2006). Planned missing data designs in psychological research. Psychological Methods, 11(4), 323–343. doi: 10.1037/1082-989X.11.4.323
  • Griffith, J. A., & Brem, S. K. (2004). Teaching evolutionary biology: Pressures, stress, and coping. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 41(8), 791–809. doi: 10.1002/tea.20027
  • Hagger, M. S., & Chatzisarantis, N. L. D. (2005). First- and higher-order models of attitudes, normative influence, and perceived behavioural control in the theory of planned behaviour. British Journal of Social Psychology, 44, 513–535.
  • Hair, J. F., Black, W. C., Babin, B. J., & Anderson, R. E. (2014). Multivariate data analysis (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
  • Hammann, M., & Asshoff, R. (2017). Schülervorstellungen im Biologieunterricht: Ursachen für Lernschwierigkeiten [Students’ conceptions in biology education: Causes for learning difficulties] (3rd ed.). Seelze: Klett Kallmeyer.
  • Hancock, G. R. (1997). Structural equation modeling methods of hypothesis testing of latent variable means. Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 30(2), 91–105.
  • Haney, J. J., & McArthur, J. (2002). Four case studies of prospective science teachers’ beliefs concerning constructivist teaching practices. Science Education, 86(6), 783–802.
  • Hansen, C. M., Zinckernagel, L., Ersbøll, A. K., Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, T., Wissenberg, M., Lippert, F. K., … Folke, F. (2017). Cardiopulmonary resuscitation training in schools following 8 years of mandating legislation in Denmark: A nationwide survey. Journal of the American Heart Association, 6(3), e004128. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.116.004128
  • Hardeman, W., Johnston, M., Johnston, D. W., Bonetti, D., Wareham, N. J., & Kinmonth, A. L. (2002). Application of the theory of planned behaviour in behaviour change interventions: A systematic review. Psychology & Health, 17(2), 123–158.
  • Heuckmann, B., & Asshoff, R. (2019). Akute Lymphatische Leukämie im Kindesalter: Eine Übungsaufgabe unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Wechsels biologischer Organisationsebenen [Acute lymphoblastic leukemia among children. A task with a special focus on thinking within and between levels of biological organization]. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht, 72(6), 459.
  • Heuckmann, B., Hammann, M., & Asshoff, R. (2018a). Entwicklung, Erprobung und Validierung eines Erhebungsinstruments zur Erfassung von Einflussfaktoren auf die Intention, das Thema Krebserkrankungen zu unterrichten [Development, piloting, and validation of an instrument for assessing predictors of teachers’ intention to teach about cancer]. In M. Lindner & M. Hammann (Eds.), Lehr-und Lernforschung in der Biologiedidaktik: Band 8 [Research on teaching and learning in biology education: Volume 8] (pp. 357–374). Innsbruck: Studienverlag.
  • Heuckmann, B., Hammann, M., & Asshoff, R. (2018b). Using the theory of planned behaviour to develop a questionnaire on teachers’ beliefs about teaching cancer education. Teaching and Teacher Education, 75, 128–140. doi: 10.1016/j.tate.2018.06.006
  • Heuckmann, B., Hammann, M., & Asshoff, R. (2019). Advantages and disadvantages of modeling beliefs by single item and scale models in the context of the theory of planned behavior. Education Sciences, 9(4), 268. doi:10.3390/educsci9040268
  • Janssen, S., Kreijns, K., Bastiaens, T. J., Stijnen, S., & Vermeulen, M. (2013). Teachers’ beliefs about using a professional development plan. International Journal of Training and Development, 17(4), 260–278. doi: 10.1111/ijtd.12016
  • Jones, M. G., & Leagon, M. (2014). Science teacher attitudes and beliefs: Reforming practice. In S. K. Abell & N. G. Lederman (Eds.), Handbook of research on science education: Volume II (pp. 830–847). New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Jorgensen, T. D., Pornprasertmanit, S., Schoemann, A. M., & Rosseel, Y. (2018). semTools: Useful tools for structural equation modeling. R package version 0.5-1. Retrieved from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=semTools
  • Jourdan, D., Simar, C., Deasy, C., Carvalho, G. S., & Mannix McNamara, P. (2016). School health promotion and teacher professional identity. Health Education, 116(2), 106–122. doi:10.1108/HE-07-2014-0078
  • Kim, D. H. (2018). ‘How do you feel about a disease?: ‘The effect of psychological distance towards a disease on health communication. International Journal of Advertising, 1–15. doi: 10.1080/02650487.2018.1438031
  • Kline, R. B. (2016). Principles and practice of structural equation modeling (4th ed.). Methodology in the social sciences. New York, NY: Guilford Press.
  • Kulinna, P. H., McCaughtry, N., Martin, J., Cothran, D., & Faust, R. (2008). The influence of professional development on teachers’ psychosocial perceptions of teaching a health-related physical education curriculum. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 27(3), 292–307.
  • Kunter, M., Tsai, Y.-M., Klusmann, U., Brunner, M., Krauss, S., & Baumert, J. (2008). Students’ and mathematics teachers’ perceptions of teacher enthusiasm and instruction. Learning and Instruction, 18(5), 468–482. doi: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2008.06.008
  • Lee, C. J., Geiger-Brown, J., & Beck, K. H. (2016). Intentions and willingness to drive while drowsy among university students: An application of an extended theory of planned behavior model. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 93, 113–123.
  • Lin, G.-C., Wen, Z., Marsh, H., & Lin, H.-S. (2010). Structural equation models of latent interactions: Clarification of orthogonalizing and double-mean-centering strategies. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 17(3), 374–391. doi: 10.1080/10705511.2010.488999
  • Lumpe, A. T., Haney, J. J., & Czerniak, C. M. (2000). Assessing teachers’ beliefs about their science teaching context. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 37(3), 275–292.
  • Mahler, D., Großschedl, J., & Harms, U. (2017). Opportunities to learn for teachers’ self-efficacy and enthusiasm. Education Research International, 2017(1), 1–17. doi: 10.1155/2017/4698371
  • Maydeu-Olivares, A., Kramp, U., García-Forero, C., Gallardo-Pujol, D., & Coffman, D. (2009). The effect of varying the number of response alternatives in rating scales: Experimental evidence from intra-individual effects. Behavior Research Methods, 41(2), 295–308.
  • McEachan, R. R. C., Conner, M., Taylor, N. J., & Lawton, R. J. (2011). Prospective prediction of health-related behaviours with the theory of planned behaviour: A meta-analysis. Health Psychology Review, 5(2), 97–144. doi: 10.1080/17437199.2010.521684
  • Ministerium für Schule und Weiterbildung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen. (2014). Kernlehrplan für die Sekundarstufe II Gymnasium/Gesamtschule in Nordrhein-Westfalen: Biologie [Federal Ministry of School and Further Education of North Rhine-Westphalia. Curriculum for teaching secondary biology (academic track)]. Schule in NRW: Heft 4722.
  • Montano, D. E., & Kasprzyk, D. (2008). Theory of reasoned action, theory of planned behavior, and the integrated behavioral model. In K. Glanz, B. K. Rimer, & K. Viswanath (Eds.), Health behavior and health education: Theory, research, and practice (pp. 67–96). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
  • Morse, L. L. (2013). Let schools do it! Helping schools find a role in cancer prevention. Journal of Adolescent Health, 52, S89–S92.
  • Murashima, K., Majima, Y., Masuda, S., Nakamura, Y., & Fukayama, K. (2018). Development of teaching materials of dementia by incorporating a communications robot for schoolchildren who are dementia supporters. In A. K. Rotegård, D. J. Skiba, & S. Barbosa (Eds.), Nursing informatics 2018: Ict to improve quality and safety at the point of care (pp. 45–49). Amsterdam: IOS Press.
  • Paulussen, T., Kok, G., & Schaalma, H. (1994). Antecedents to adoption of classroom-based AIDS education in secondary schools. Health Education Research, 9(4), 485–496. doi: 10.1093/her/9.4.485
  • Pomery, E. A., Gibbons, F. X., Reis-Bergan, M., & Gerrard, M. (2009). From willingness to intention: Experience moderates the shift from reactive to reasoned behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35(7), 894–908.
  • Rawstorne, P., Jayasuriya, R., & Caputi, P. (2000). Issues in predicting and explaining usage behaviors with technology acceptance model and the theory of planned behavior when usage is mandatroy. ICIS 2000 Proceedings of the 21st international conference on information systems, 35–44. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8bb4/9c0658d7b7cff42c655a6d7e005372ad32ea.pdf
  • R Core Team. (2019). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. Vienna: R Foundation for Statistical Computing. Retrieved from https://www.r-project.org
  • Rechis, R., Neal, C., & McGoldrick, D. (2010). Livestrong at school: Changing classroom talk about cancer. Journal of Cancer Education, 25(1), 127–128. doi: 10.1007/s13187-010-0039-4
  • Rhodes, R. E., & Courneya, K. S. (2003). Investigating multiple components of attitude, subjective norm, and perceived control: An examination of the theory of planned behaviour in the exercise domain. British Journal of Social Psychology, 42(1), 129–146.
  • Robinson, S., Ekins, A., Durrant, I., & Summers, K. (2018). Teachers communicating about life-limiting conditions, death and bereavement. Pastoral Care in Education, 36(1), 57–69. doi: 10.1080/02643944.2017.1422007
  • Rose, I. D., Boyce, L., Murray, C. C., Lesesne, C. A., Szucs, L. E., Rasberry, C. N., & Parker, J. T. (2019). Key factors influencing comfort in delivering and receiving sexual health education: Middle school student and teacher perspectives. American Journal of Sexuality Education, 14(4), 466–489. doi:10.1080/15546128.2019.1626311
  • Rosseel, Y. (2012). Lavaan: An R package for structural equation modeling. Journal of Statistical Software, 48(2), 1–36.
  • Sass, D. A. (2011). Testing measurement invariance and comparing latent factor means within a confirmatory factor analysis framework. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 29(4), 347–363. doi:10.1177/0734282911406661
  • Savalei, V. (2014). Understanding robust corrections in structural equation modeling. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 21(1), 149–160. doi: 10.1080/10705511.2013.824793
  • Schermelleh-Engel, K., Moosbrugger, H., & Müller, H. (2003). Evaluating the fit of structural equation models: Tests of significance and descriptive goodness-of-fit measures. Methods of Psychological Research Online, 8(2), 23–74.
  • Sickel, A. J., & Friedrichsen, P. (2013). Examining the evolution education literature with a focus on teachers: Major findings, goals for teacher preparation, and directions for future research. Evolution: Education and Outreach, 6, 23. doi: 10.1186/1936-6434-6-23
  • Sniehotta, F. F. (2009). An experimental test of the theory of planned behavior. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 1(2), 257–270.
  • Sommestad, T., Karlzén, H., & Hallberg, J. (2015). The sufficiency of the theory of planned behavior for explaining information security policy compliance. Information and Computer Security, 23(2), 200–217. doi: 10.1108/ICS-04-2014-0025
  • Speller, V., Byrne, J., Dewhirst, S., Almond, P., Mohebati, L., Norman, M., … Roderick, P. (2010). Developing trainee school teachers’ expertise as health promoters. Health Education, 110(6), 490–507. doi: 10.1108/09654281011087288
  • Steinmetz, H., Knappstein, M., Ajzen, I., Schmidt, P., & Kabst, R. (2016). How effective are behavior change interventions based on the theory of planned behavior?: A three-level meta-analysis. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 224(3), 216–233.
  • Sussman, R., & Gifford, R. (2019). Causality in the theory of planned behavior. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 45(6), 920–933.
  • Thompson, M. S., & Green, S. B. (2013). Evaluating between-group difference in latent variable means. In G. R. Hancock & R. O. Mueller (Eds.), Quantitative methods in education and the behavioral sciences. Structural equation modeling: A second course (pp. 163–218). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
  • Trope, Y., & Liberman, N. (2010). Construal-level theory of psychological distance. Psychological Review, 117(2), 440–463. doi: 10.1037/a0018963
  • Underwood, P. R. (2012). Teacher beliefs and intentions regarding the instruction of English grammar under national curriculum reforms: A theory of planned behaviour perspective. Teaching and Teacher Education, 28(6), 911–925.
  • Van Boven, L., Kane, J., McGraw, A. P., & Dale, J. (2010). Feeling close: Emotional intensity reduces perceived psychological distance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98(6), 872–885. doi: 10.1037/a0019262
  • Van Buuren, S. (2012). Flexible imputation of missing data. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
  • Van Buuren, S., & Groothuis-Oudshoorn, K. (2011). Mice: Multivariate imputation by chained equations in R. Journal of Statistical Software, 45(3), 1–67.
  • VandenBos, G. R. (Ed.). (2015). APA dictionary of psychology (2nd ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
  • Williams, T., & Donnelly, K. (2012). Talking about cancer toolkit: Making a big subject easy to talk about. London: Macmillan Cancer Support.
  • Yan, Z. (2014). Predicting teachers’ intentions to implement school-based assessment using the theory of planned behaviour. Educational Research and Evaluation, 20(2), 83–97.
  • Yan, Z., & Cheng, E. C. K. (2015). Primary teachers’ attitudes, intentions and practices regarding formative assessment. Teaching and Teacher Education, 45, 128–136.
  • Yzer, M. (2012). Perceived behavioral control in reasoned action theory: A dual-aspect interpretation. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 640(1), 101–117.
  • Zinbarg, R. E., Revelle, W., Yovel, I., & Li, W. (2005). Cronbach’s α, Revelle’s β, and Mcdonald’s ωh: Their relations with each other and two alternative conceptualizations of reliability. Psychometrika, 70(1), 123–133.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.