ABSTRACT
Attitudes towards behavior have long been suggested to be significant predictors of behavioral intention. Individuals with better attitudes are believed to have a higher intention to do a behavior. Using the Theory of Planned Behavior (Ajzen 1991), this paper presents evidence where specific characteristics of a sample group, and the existence of a psychological constraint lead to different findings from a majority of research and theory. From data collected among 202 Indonesian junior school English teachers, analyzed using the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) using AMOS, findings of a three-factor model of teachers’ intention suggest that teachers’ attitudes did not significantly predict intention. Such findings implied the effects of a volitional restriction among the teachers on teachers’ psychology. It also confirms the low sense of autonomy among the Indonesian teachers indicated by Bjork (2004), resulting in low levels of decision making among teachers.
