A structural equation model about the effect of health on behaviour intention to practise active commuting: study of the factorial invariance by sex and age

Abstract

A growing of health problems in people have been in recent years, as obesity, overweight, diabetes, etc. Active commuting is a way to combat these problems. The objective of this work is to assess the effect of health, comfort and environmental awareness on behaviour intention to practice active commuting, as well as to study the factorial invariance by sex and age. For this purpose, a questionnaire was designed and distributed by means of a convenience sample with snowball effect. 448 responses were obtained from this sample. The specification and estimation of structural equation model with AMOS was designed for the analysis of the data.The results show that the reliability and validity of measurement model and structural model is verified.The results also show that factorial invariance by sex is verified but strict factorial invariance for age is not verified.