Adopter/implementer/decision maker characteristics

Number of Models:
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34

Elements:
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Ability

Adopter audiences

Adopter training and support

Adult: Parent - attitudes

Adult: Parent - skills

Adult: Teacher - attitudes

Adult: Teacher - skills

Attitudes

Audience

Behavioral Regulation

Behaviors

Beliefs

Beliefs about capabilities

Beliefs about Consequences

Capability

Capability - Physical

Capability - Psychological

Change Agents

Characteristics of Individuals

Clear definition of objectives by decision-maker

Clients

Clinical Experience

Competence

Cosmopolitanism

Critical Reflection by Adopters

Decision-maker interest

Decision-maker style

Decision-maker's participation

Eligibility

Emotion

Experience

Expertise

Goals

Implementers

Individual

Individual adopter characteristics

Individual characteristics

Individual Factors

Individual Factors influencing implementation

Individual Identification with Organization

Individual intentions

Individual level

Individual Stage of Change

Intentions

Interpersonal Skills

Key messengers

Knowledge and beliefs

Memory, attention and decision processes

Motivation - automatic

Motivation to change

Motivation- reflective

Norms & Attitudes

Opportunity - Physical

Opportunity - Social

Optimism

Other Personal Attributes

Peer Pressure

Personal

Perspectives and Frameworks

Potential Adopters

Practice

Professional training

Provider Factors

Psychosocial Factors

Research interest and expertise

Self-efficacy

Sill Development

Skill Assessment

Skills

Social/professional role and identity

User group

Definition:
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The characteristics, attitudes, and behaviors of individuals within an adopting organization include position in the organization, education, individual concerns and motivations and may determine the uptake and use of an innovation. Rogers classifies the individual adopters according to their degree of innovativeness into five categories: (1) innovators, (2) early adopters, (3-4) early and late majority, and (5) laggards.

Related Models

Measures:
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GEM D&I link: Adoption

GEM D&I link: Adopter Attitudes