Despite the government having been accused of suppressing an unfavourable evaluation of its flagship troubled families programme, it is good news that there was even an independent evaluation of the programme in the first place.
Attitude towards behaviour is regarded as the main predictor of intention in the theory of planned behaviour and constitutes the degree to which a person has a favourable or unfavourable evaluation of a given behaviour in relation to desired opportunities such as advancement and pleasure (Kautonen et al. 2013).
According to the TPB, behavioural intention is a function of attitude, reflecting a favourable or unfavourable evaluation of the particular behaviour and subjective norm.
The TPB posits that behavioural intention is a function of attitude, reflecting a favourable or unfavourable evaluation of the particular behaviour and subjective norm, referring to the perceived social pressure to perform the behaviour.
Attitudes reflect the "degree to which a person has a favourable or unfavourable evaluation of the behaviour in question"; norms reflect the perceived social pressures to perform or not perform the behaviour; and controls reveal the perceived ease or difficulty of performing the behaviour [ 13].
Regarding the present and future economic and political conditions of the home country, Turkish students made rather unfavourable evaluations which seemed to discourage their entrepreneurial intentions.
In the context of the theory of planned behaviour, 'Attitude' is defined as 'the degree to which a person has a favourable or unfavourable evaluation or appraisal of the behaviour in question' ([28], p.188).
Based on this unfavourable evaluation, and the two-dimensional nature of habitat patterns needed to improve the conditions for stream organisms, we recommend to predict morphological developments as part of the design procedures for lowland stream restoration in the Netherlands.
Particularly, favourable evaluations of old objects and unfavourable perceptions of modern objects were implied.
The evaluations of the Turkish students, however, were quite unfavourable (below the 3.5 midpoint).
