Understanding and Changing Health Behaviour (eBook, ePUB)

From Health Beliefs to Self-Regulation
Redaktion: Abraham, Charles; Conner, Mark; Norman, Paul

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Focuses on a range of key social cognitive factors in interventions to change health behaviour, using examples from an impressove breadth of applied settings. The book features contributions from some of the best known researchers in the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134434091
• Artikelnr.: 40095166

Autorenporträt

Charles Abraham, Paul Norman, Mark Conner

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Applications of Social Cognition Models. Using the Theory of
Reasoned Action to Predict Condom Use Among High-risk Heterosexual Teens.
Can Protection Motivation Theory Predict Breast Self-examination? A
Longitudinal Test Exploring the Role of Previous Behaviour. Comparing the
Theory of Planned Behaviour and the Health Belief Model: The Example of
Safety Helmet Use among Schoolboy Cyclists. Extensions to Social Cognition
Models. Attitudinal and Normative Processes in Health Behaviour.
Behavioural and Normative Beliefs about Condom Use: Comparing Measurement
Alternatives Within the Theory of Reasoned Action. Discriminating between
Behavioural Intention and Behavioural Willingness: Cognitive Antecedents to
Adolescent Health Risk. Stages of Change. The Attitude-social Influence
Model Applied to the Prediction of Motivational Transitions in the Process
of Smoking Cessation. Relationships among the Theory of Planned Behaviour.
Stages of Change and Exercise Behaviour in Older Persons over a Three Year
Period: A Critical Review of the Transtheoretical Model Applied to Smoking
Cessation. Self-regulation and Health Goals. The Emergence and
Implementation of Health Goals. Goal Setting and Goal Pursuit in the
Regulation of Body Weight. Health Promotion from the Perspective of Social
Cognitive Theory. Conclusions and Future Directions. Towards a Psychology
of Health Related Behaviour Change.