Behavioural Change

Question 1

When supporting behaviour change, self-efficacy is an important element in self-achievement of lifestyle foals. What are the 4 elements that support behaviour change?

Answer 1

Vicarious Experience: see someone else succeeding motivates our own self-efficacy.
Verbal Persuasion: Direct encouragement or discouragement from another person.
Performance Attainment: success raises one’s self-efficacy, while failure lowers it - highlight the little wins.
Physiological/Psychological State: Distress Vs Eustress and one’s perception of both.

Question 2

The Transtheoretical Model for Behaviour Change (TTM) inscludes several constructs and is comprised of different theories of behaviour change.

Answer 2

Constructs:
Stages of change
Pros and Cons of changing
Confidence and temptation
Process of Change

Theories:
Health belief model
Self-efficacy and health behaviour
theory of planned behaviour

Question 3

The Health belief model (HBM) hypothesizes that health-related action depends upon the simultaneous occurrence of three classes of factors, T/F?

What are the three classes?

Answer 3

True

1 - existence of sufficient motivation to make the issue relevant.
2 - belief that one is vulnerable to serious health problems.
3 - belief that following some health recommendation would be beneficial in reducing the perceived threat.

Question 4

Self-efficacy may be defined as:
“people’s judgement of their capabilities to
organise and execute courses of action
required to attain designated types of
performance. It is concerned not with the skills one
has but with the judgement of what one can do
with whatever skills one possesses”
(Bandura, 1986, p.391)

Answer 4

Important theory