A study on Theory of Reasoned Action

Title: Using the Theory of Reasoned Action to examine the gambling behaviors of college athletes and other students.

Author: Robert Gene Thrasher

Model/Theory

Theory of Reasoned Action

The link between conceptual framework and theory/model

The general indicate of the present study was to inspect the gambling behavior of understudies students and, specifically, undergrad athletes. This study inspected the connections among subjective norms, gambling attitudes, gambling motivations, locus of control, and gambling intentions on the gambling behavior of understudies. The objective of this study was to survey gambling in a clear cut populace with simple access to gambling and to assess the sufficiency of a changed Theory (TRA) (Ajzen & Fishbein, 1980) for visualizing the gambling recurrence and the gambling behavior. A few studies have used the TRA to analyze gambling behavior (Oh & Hsu, 2001; Moore & Ohtsuka, 1997, 1999).

These studies explored the TRA to be an efficacious instrument when analyzing the gambling behavior. However, the researcher of the current study opted to modify TRA by integrating two mitigating variables, intrinsic motivation and locus of control, to the conceptual framework that can be a good option for future research (Thrasher 2006).

Figure 1: Conceptual Framework (Threshur,2009)

Dependent & Independent Variables

Table 1: Dependent & Independent Variables

Depended Variables	Independent Variable	Moderating Variables
Gambling attitudes	Student Athletes	Gambling motivations
Subjective norms	Gender	Locus of control
Gambling Intentions	Student Athletes
Gambling Behaviors	Grade Point Average
	Frequency
	Expenditure