The ability of Fishbein's expectancy-value model to predict behaviors performed by 363 salesmen and 88 college teachers was tested. Independent measures of attitude as well as measures computed with four expectancy-value models when combined with three perceived norm variations were found to significantly predict behavior. Limited evidence that attitudes and perceived norms predict job behavior better than either variable alone was also presented.
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