Flashcards in L3 Deck (12)
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Behavior
Overt actions to underlying psychological processes such as cognition, emotion, temperament, and motivation
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Objective of behavior change approach
to bring changes to individual behavior through changes in individual's cognitions
-aims to increase individual's knowledge about the causes of health and illness
-assumes humans are rational decision makers
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Disadv. Of Behavior Change Approach
-doesn't target major socio-economic causes of ill health
-top down approach; can be incompatible with community norms
-assumes direct link b/w knowledge, attitude, behavior
-assumes homogeneity among receivers of health promotion messages
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Social cognition models
Predict performance of behaviors and provide guidance as to how to facilitate their uptake by manipulating relevant variables (such as beliefs, attitudes)
-change in belief --> change in behavior
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Health Belief Model
Behavior is related to:
-subjective value of the outcome
-subjective probability or expectation that an action will achieve the outcome
-needs perceived susceptibility, severity of dz, threat of dz, cues to action, perceived benefits-barriers, and self-efficacy --> likelihood of taking action
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Critiques of HBM
-focus on individual decisions
-not clear how all 6 HBM constructs operate in changing behavior
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Theory of Reasoned Action***
-individual will perform some action X based on their ATTITUDE towards the behavior and the SUBJECTIVE NORM associated w/ the behavior
-there is a LINEAR CHAIN linking behavioral and normative beliefs to behavioral intention**
-nothing directly influences behavior besides intention**
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TRA vs TPB
TPB adds the perceived behavioral control
-presence or absence of facilitators and barriers to performing the behavior
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Critiques of TRA/TPB
-assumes behavior is output of rational, linear decision making
-lack of clarity
-time bw intent and action not considered
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Criticisms of SCMs
-don't address joint-decision making**
-only concerned w/ cognitively mediated behaviors
-don't account for impulse/emotion
-assumes same variable informs different health behaviors and is relevant for diverse groups
-don't account for material, physical, and social factors
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Model widely used for changing NEGATIVE behaviors
Transtheoretical model
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