Session 7

Question 1

Name the 3 psychosocial models of health behavior

Answer 1

1. Social Cognitive Theory
2. Self-Efficacy
3. Social Cognitive Approach

Question 2

Name the determinants for social cognitive theory

Answer 2

• Knowledge
• Perceived self-efficacy
• Outcomes expectations
• Health goals
• Perceived facilitators
• Impediments

Question 3

The Psychosocial models of health behavior include:

Answer 3

• Threefold Step Model
• Self-Management Model
• Theoretical Model
• Translational and Implementational Model
• Social Diffusion Model

Question 4

How do the psychosocial models of health behavior overlap?

Answer 4

The common theory is that the psychosocial factors are major determinants of human health, concerned with predicting health behavior.

Question 5

What are the goals of public health campaigns?

Answer 5

• ALTER health habits by encouraging adoption of healthy behaviors
• RAISE beliefs in personal efficacy
• Important societal priorities targeting children and teenagers
• Can prevent most risky behaviors in adulthood by curbing their initiation in childhood and adolescence

Question 6

Name 2 health promotion approaches

Answer 6

1. Direct pathway

2. Socially mediated pathway

Question 7

What is a direct pathway?

Answer 7

Media promotes change by informing, modeling, motivating and guiding personal changes

Question 8

What is a socially mediated pathway?

Answer 8

Media links participants to social networks and community settings which provide personalized guidance, natural incentives and social support

Question 9

What’s important about socially mediated approaches?

Answer 9

• People do not work alone, but in groups

* Efficacy is at its highest when people work in groups or gain social support through other networks

Question 10

Name some innovative methods of promoting behavior changes

Answer 10

• Serial television dramas around the world founded on social cognitive theory (like in Tanzania)
• Video games helping to increase children’s self-efficacy and help in management of chronic diseases (asthma, diabetes, cystic fibrosis)

Question 11

What is Bandura’s definition for self-efficacy?

Answer 11

“An individual’s belief in his or her capacity to execute behaviors necessary to produce specific performance attainments” (to believe you can do it)

Question 12

Define efficacy

Answer 12

The ability or power to produce an effect (to actually be able to do it)

Question 13

Define collective efficacy

Answer 13

“A group’s shared belief in it’s conjoint capabilities to organize and execute courses of action required to produce given levels of attainment.”