Active Paths to Sustainability: Unlocking Mobility in University Students |Chapter 4 | Scientific Research, New Technologies and Applications Vol. 6

 

Aims: This study aimed at investigating behavioral aspects related to sustainability mobility practices in a specific target group, known for being physically active: the students of the Physical Education and Sport Science Department in Serres, Northern Greece. This work aimed to shed light on gender differences in weekly physical activity levels, as well as gender’s respective effect on mobility practices.

 

Study Design: It was a cross-sectional study, using a tested research instrument, grounded on the Theory of Planned Behaviour within a specific population group.

 

Place and Duration of Study: Data were collected during the first semester of the academic year before the outburst of the COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictive measures imposed by governments. University students filled in the questionnaires once during a typical academic week.

 

Methodology: 259 students from first year to nearing graduation from the Department of Physical Education and Sport Science in Serres, a medium-sized Greek city which is active in mobility issues, filled in a questionnaire, based on Ajzen’s theory of planned behavior and Godin–Shephard Leisure Time Physical Activity Questionnaire for reporting physical activity weekly uptake.

 

Results: The results confirmed higher levels of physical activity in male students, although their attitude towards physical activity was less positive than that of their female classmates. Further positive attitudes in women were recorded towards sustainable mobility choices, although the evidence demonstrated a similar gap between the answers of the two genders. Car possession was higher in men, whereas car purchase intention was slightly lower in women, who had a lower income in general. Moreover, income impacted gender mobility preferences.

 

Conclusion: University student mobility research calls for behavioral approaches to ground relevant interventions. Recommendations can be guided by students’ sports preferences and can be gender-sensitive, taking income into account. The findings could provide implications for policy and practice, informing strategies for promoting sustainable mobility among students.

 

 

Author(s) Details

 

Foteini Mikiki

International Hellenic University, Greece.

Ermioni Katartzi

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Andreas Oikonomou

School of Pedagogical and Technological Education, Greece.

 

 

Please see the book here:- https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/srnta/v6/2061

 

Application of Theory of Planned Behaviour for Detection of Knowledge Sharing Behavior in Indonesia | Chapter 1 | Recent Research Advances in Arts and Social Studies Vol. 2

 This unit empirically focal points public employees' knowledge-giving intention by adopting and reaching existing well-established believes. Knowledge is a critical business-related resource and the only beginning of comparative advantage. Explicit information is easy to write, accumulate, and disseminate, and it is the information found in textbooks, on computer network, and other optic and oral means. It is the opposite of indirect knowledge.TPB is a hypothesis used to predict and comprehend behaviors. It posits that nature are immediately contingent upon behavioral intentions, that are determined by a consolidation of three factors: stance toward the behavior, subjective standards, and perceived observable control. The researcher proposes an lengthened TPB combined accompanying a perceived incidental concern variable as a determinant of observable intention. One hundred having 50 of something questionnaires were distributed among civic society and all sector at the precinct level in the Central Kalimantan Province of Indonesia. Collectively, 126 inquiries were received. A Partial Least Squares (PLS) study was applied to resolve and test the research model and hypothesis. The results show that all of the components of the TPB considerably influenced seen SDG realization.  The results further partially demonstrate that the goal to share knowledge mediates the influence of stance, perceived behavioral control, and seen environmental concern on SDG realization. This study indicates that the projected model can be used to explore views that influence public area organizations' aims to share knowledge. The local expert can, therefore, put the research's advice into practice. The study's disclosure of the variables doing public officials' information giving makes this report singular.

Author(s) Details:

Danes Jaya Negara,
Department of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, Universitas Palangka Raya, Indonesia.

Ferdinand Ferdinand,
Department of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, Universitas Palangka Raya, Indonesia.

Meitiana Meitiana,
Department of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, Universitas Palangka Raya, Indonesia.

Maria Haryulin Astuti,
Department of Cultivation, Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Palangka Raya, Indonesia.

Trecy Anden,
Department of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, Universitas Palangka Raya, Indonesia.

Rita Sarlawa,
Department of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, Universitas Palangka Raya, Indonesia.

Ani Mahrita,
Department of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, Universitas Palangka Raya, Indonesia.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/RRAASS-V2/article/view/12529