Tesis ini meneliti tentang intensi peneliti melakukan aktivitas public engagement. Faktorfaktoryang dapat mempengaruhi intensi dari Theory of Planned Behavior digunakan dalampenelitian ini, seperti attitude toward engagement, subjective norms, dan perceivedbehavioral control (self efficacy dan response efficacy). Faktor lain sebagai variabel kontroldiikutsertakan untuk mengetahui seberapa besar pengaruhnya terhadap intensi penelitidalam melakukan engagement dengan publik, seperti pengaruh jenis kelamin, status peneliti,dan pelatihan komunikasi yang pernah didapat peneliti. Sebanyak 132 peneliti dari LembagaIlmu Pengetahuan Indonesia berpartisipasi dalam penelitian ini. Hasilnya faktor attitudetoward engagement, self efficacy, jenis kelamin, dan status peneliti berpengaruh secarasignifikan terhadap intensi mereka dalam melakukan engagement dengan publik.

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This thesis examines the scientist's intention to carry out public engagement activities.Factors that can affect human intention from the Theory of Planned Behavior were used inthis study, such as attitude toward engagement, subjective norms, and perceived behavioralcontrol (self-efficacy and response efficacy). Other factors as control variables wereincluded to determine how much the influence on scientist’s intention to engage with thepublic, such as the factor of gender, the position status of the researcher, and thecommunication training the scientist’s has received before. A total of 132 researchers fromthe Indonesian Institute of Sciences were participated in this research. The result is that theattitude toward engagement, self-efficacy, gender, and scientist’s status significantlyaffecting their intention to engage with the public.