Monday, 24 May 2021

LITERATURE REVIEW

 THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOUR (TPB)



  • Icek Ajzen, a social psychologist and an academician (picture) came out with the theory of planned behavior in 1985 which was based on a previous theory, the theory of reasoned action.
  • TPB is a psychological theory that studies and predicts human behaviors and actions.
  • A lot of academicians and researchers have utilized TPB to investigate human beliefs, attitudes, and also behavioral intentions.
  • Prior studies which used TPB include those which emphasize the issue of health-related behaviors, environmental psychology, and voting behaviors.
Figure 1 Research Framework

There are 13 items under the measurement of independent variables, 2 mediating variables and 6 items under the measurement of a dependent variable. All items of the variables are adapted from main journal Factors Affecting Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty in Online Food Delivery Service during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Its Relation with Open Innovation. These items are then used in the questionnaire for the measurement of variables.


VARIABLE IDENTIFICATION

Independent Variable: Hedonic Motivation (HM), Information Quality (IQ), Price (P), Promotion (PRO) 
                                                                                                                 
Mediating Variable:   Intention to Use (ITU), Actual Use (AU) 

Dependent Variable: Satisfaction and Loyalty (SL)