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The main purpose of this study was to predict and understand the Junior High School students'' behavioral intention of household recycling in Taipei city, on the basis of the Theory of Reasoned Action and Self-efficacy of Social Learning Theory .By using stratified cluster sampling method, the sample was selected from the first-year students of Junior High Schools in 1997. The data were collected via interview with the total number of valid questionnaire being 2410 . The main findings of this study were as follows :The Attitudes, subjective norms, and self-efficacy toward recycling could effectively predict the subjects'' intention of household recycling, and the explanation power of these variances toward the behavioral intention was 25.8%.The attitudes, and subjective norms respectively shown to be related to appropriate sets of salient behavioral , and normative beliefs about the behavior .There were significant differences among behavioral beliefs, evaluation, normative beliefs, motivation to comply, self- efficacy, and environmental knowledge for intenders and non- intenders of household recycling .As a whole, the results supported the framework of this study . At the same time, it is essential for further analysis toward the low explanation power of behavioral intention by attitudes, subjective norms and self-efficacy in this study .
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