General Terms Flashcards

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What is a mediator?

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  • X leads to Y because of a change in a mediator
  • Indirect effects (the in-between)
  • What is done in-between (i.e. coping)
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What is a moderator?

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  • An individual’s characteristics influencing the stress response
  • e.g. high vs low style of stress but same stressor is applied to both styles of people
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What are the four types of health behaviours?

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  • Health enhancing (e.g. healthy eating)
  • Health protective (e.g. vaccine)
  • Health harming (e.g. smoking, substance use)
  • Sick role (prescription and proscriptions)
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What is an adaptive response?

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  • Engaging to decrease risk

- Avoiding or stopping ill behaviour or starting positive behaviour

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What is a maladaptive response?

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  • Not direct addressing of threat
  • Taking up ill-health behaviour (e.g. substance use to cope)
  • Failing to address ill-health behaviour
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Subjective norms

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-Expectations of important others

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Injunctive norms

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-Someone wants you to do behaviour

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Descriptive norms

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-Someone like me is doing it

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What are intentions?

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  • Standards one sets for oneself

- Having good intention does not equal behaviour because of the intention behaviour gap

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What is the IF of implementation intentions?

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  • The critical cue

- Identify an obstacle or opportunity

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What is the THEN of implementation intentions?

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  • Goal directed response (cognitive, behavioural, affective)
  • An alternative goal/action
  • Allows you to bypass automatic thinking
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Self-regulation

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  • Key in social cognition
  • People believe they are able to achieve their goals
  • Re-evaluate beliefs, self-monitor, goal-setting
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Reciprocal determinism

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-Interaction of person, environment and behaviour in a dynamic way constantly

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Behavioural capability

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  • Actual ability to perform knowledge and skills
  • Learning from consequence
  • Social learning
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What are the sources of self-efficacy? (4)

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  • Mastery experiences (most powerful)
  • Vicarious experience (see someone else model/do it)
  • Verbal persuasion (encouragement)
  • Perception of physiological response and affect (fight or flight?)
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Gain-framed messages

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  • Promoting preventative behaviours (unless behaviour is perceived risky)
  • If hoping for good outcome
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Loss-framed

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  • Promoting detection behaviours

- Grim message to increase urgency

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Coping strategies

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-Specific things we do to cope in the moment

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Coping styles

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-More generalized way of behaving linked to personality and is stable across time

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Health belief model

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  • Not good for behaviour change

- Feel susceptible and scared = enough to change behaviour

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Protection motivation theory

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  • Using fear appeals to change behaviour
  • Something rewarding
  • Self-efficacy
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Theory of planned behaviour

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  • Looks at PA behaviour
  • Intentions!
  • People learn from consequence
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Social Cognitive theory

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  • Autonomy, agency, ability, and confidence to make decisions
  • Self-efficacy
  • Reciprocal determinism & Behavioural capability
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Information Motivation Behavioural Skills Model

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  • Planning Tool
  • What skills do I want to work on?
  • How will I enhance motivation?
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Motivational Phase of self-regulation

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  • Evaluating benefits and barriers

- Ends with decision to pursue goal or not

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Volitional phase of self-regulation

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-Putting in a plan to meet the goal

27
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What is an appraisal?

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-Is the situation threatening?

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What are intrinsic rewards?

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  • Does it feel good?

- Do you like to do it?

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What are extrinsic rewards?

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  • Social approval?

- Another external reward

30
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What is perceived confidence?

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-behaviour depends on whether you believe you have the ability to do the behaviour

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What is perceived control?

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-the degree of personal control one feels they have over the behaviour

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What are cognitive attitudes?

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  • Instrumental attitudes

- Do I believe exercise is good for me?

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What are affective attitudes?

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  • Emotional

- Does PA make me happy?

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What are outcome expectations?

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  • what do I expect to get if I actually do this behaviour?
  • Physical: If I participate in PA, will I reduce my risk of CV disease?
  • Social: If I participate in PA, will my family be proud of me?
  • Self-evaluative: Do I enjoy PA?
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What are socio-structural factors?

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  • things that help us or prevent us
  • Facilitators: help us get somewhere
  • Impediments: Gets in the way of doing something