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Predicting adolescent breakfast consumption in the UK and Australia using an extended theory of planned behaviour

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Mullan, Barbara
Wong, C.
Kothe, E.
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2013
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Mullan, Barbara and Wong, Cara and Kothe, Emily. 2013. Predicting adolescent breakfast consumption in the UK and Australia using an extended theory of planned behaviour. Appetite. 62: pp. 127-132.
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NOTICE: This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Appetite. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Appetite, Vol. 62 (2013). doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2012.11.021

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The aim of this study was to investigate whether the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) with the addition of risk awareness could predict breakfast consumption in a sample of adolescents from the UK and Australia. It was hypothesised that the TPB variables of attitudes, subjective norm and perceived behavioural control (PBC) would significantly predict intentions, and that inclusion of risk perception would increase the proportion of variance explained. Secondly it was hypothesised that intention and PBC would predict behaviour. Participants were recruited from secondary schools in Australia and the UK. A total of 613 participants completed the study (448 females, 165 males; mean = 14 years ±1.1). The TPB predicted 42.2% of the variance in intentions to eat breakfast. All variables significantly predicted intention with PBC as the strongest component. The addition of risk made a small but significant contribution to the prediction of intention. Together intention and PBC predicted 57.8% of the variance in breakfast consumption.