Saturday, 4 August 2007

Sparks 1992

Self-Identity and the Theory of Planned Behavior: Assesing the Role of Identification with" Green Consumerism"

deep look at self identity and whether it is an independent variable in the formation of intention.
the authors seem convinced that it is not independent, but rather an antecedent to attitude.
they tackle the articles claiming that it is independent and carry out research of their own.
they kinda come to the conclusion that it is independent (grudgingly) but point out that other authors do not apply A + F 100% accurately.
good intro to self id.
You want to do A, and you should do A (B), but you are the sort of person who does C.

thought for the day

Very preliminary look at tourism satisfaction

keen to develop a link between the initial questionnaire and the Satisfaction part.

in the initial questionnaire the questions will ask 'how important' they think something is.
this is to give some indication of 'how ethical' they are. these 'ethical' questions can then be asked again at the end of the tour, with the added dimension of to what extent do you think they existed on tour - need to develop, but the initial seeds are there.

Friday, 3 August 2007

R1 latest

I had a re-jig of the R1 doc I gave to Harold and xavier in May/June.

The main points coing out of that meeting were methodological, so the real bul of the changes wil be in the methods part at the end. I have completed up to the part which goes into the design of the project and I have about 1500 words to play with.

I will need to go into Customer/consumer satisfaction models over the weekend to establish what i want to use. As an aim, I would like to have that chosen by monday - probs fairly standard, but need to keep in mind the experiential side of things.

The link - people who are more 'ethically oriented' more likely to enjoy an 'ethical holiday'????

Going to meet this dude on monday - need to do some serious prep for it.
Simon Robinson.
Need to get whatever I need Saturday to that I have it all for Headingley campus Sunday Monday.

Ethics.

Thursday, 2 August 2007

update

trying to put together some sort of R1 doc
guess i need to do some work on customer satisfaction first
but it will be in with the small part on methods at the end, just like TPB
need to really ge the structure set and flow.
there are lots of patches of this and that everywhere.
need cohesion

Wednesday, 1 August 2007

update

currently trying to write up a concise overview of where Shaw is at in terma of development from TRA to TPB to include ethical and self-identity variabes.
then how these can be integrated and also whether they are independent of attitude or antecedents.
once this is in place - discussion of regression analysis verses SEM.

needs to be fairly high level, to allow for easy integration into R1 do to be written next week.

Satisfaction of course needs to be addressed. Looking at this point that a few assumptions will need to be made, but for the sake of the R1 it should be fine.

Shaw 2000 - Conference paper

The Impact of Ethics in Consumer Choice: a Multivariate Modelling Case Study

same same as far is shaw is concerned - maybe slightly better in terms of breaking down the constructs; ATT SN PBC SI
Diagrams are good and clear
Again makes reference to the need to look more closely at A+F work regarding the detail - why and how do we split these concepts (context/traditional etc.)

Shaw 2003

Ethics in consumer choice: a multivariate modelling approach

Same same as far as Shaw's work goes, but a little more detail in terms of the sub-constructs for the main antecedents of intention. I think it is all taken from A + F with att_traditional, att_control, etc. Goes into more detail of SEM than other articles.
Need to consider just how statistical I want to go, as there are a lot of measures used here, and I would need to feel comfortable with them.
The model itself does make more sense than the basic TPB, but is more stat - intensive.
The division of the sample into 2 groups is just to test the validity of one of the groups.
Good Diagram - model two, which shows all the links,
need to check the meaning of latent variable.