week 5 Flashcards
social ecological model
recognize that individual level factors are only on of multiple levels influence on behaviour
social influence
real or imagined pressure to change ones behaviour, attitudes or beliefs
social support
refers to the perceived comfort caring assistance and information that a person receives from others
instrumenta support
tangible practical assitance that will help a person achieve their exercise goals
emotional support
expressing encouragment caring empathy and concern toward a person
informational support
providing instructions, directions advice suggestions about how to exercise
appraisal support
feedback that can be used to gauge progress or validate that ones thoughts feeling problems experiences are normal
parent influence on kids
downside of family support
behavioural reactance: responding in the opposite direction to the direction of being advocated
(fine line form feeling support or controlled
Importance of leadership style
good exercise leader: is a postive social influence
Transformational Leadership: Idealized
Influence
acting as a role model
Through their own physically active lifestyle
* Through their involvement in the program
Transformational Leadership: Inspirational Motivation
modeling enthusiasm and optimism about what others can accomplish
Transformational Leadership: Intellectual Stimulation
- Fostering Autonomy
- Helping others to make decisions for themselves
- Helping others to look at problems from different perspectives
Transformational Leadership: Individualized Consideration
- Recognize individuality, personal needs, abilities
- Take time to help those who are struggling
key aspects of exercise groups
- Group cohesion
- Group size
- Group composition
cohesive group
Group members are drawn to a common goal and
integrated around the pursuit of the goal and members have enjoyable, meaningful social interactions and communications”
smaller group classes have
easier to integrate people, more
individual attention (more group cohesion)
Social facilitation
the phenomenon whereby people
increase their effort and performance when others are watching them.
Functional Features of environment
Structural aspects of an environment Paths, sidewalks
safety features
The characteristics of the environment that
protect people from harm from:
Aesthetic Features
The characteristics that make the environment
interesting and pleasing such as:
* Trees and Flowers
* Architecture
Aesthetic Features
The characteristics that make the environment
interesting and pleasing such as:
* Trees and Flowers
* Architecture
Destination Features
The availability of places/destinations that people
could:
* Walk or bike to their neighborhoods (e.g., shops, bus
stops, schools)
* The proximity of gyms, playgrounds, basketball courts
what can polices do
- Regulate the built environment
- Improve access to opportunities for
PA - Regulate people’s behavior
- Have a very focused OR a very
widespread influence
Community-Wide
Campaigns
physical activity by combining a variety
of strategies, such as media coverage and
promotions, risk factor screening and
education, community events, and policy
and programmatic initiatives, such as
walking trails or social supports.
Behavioural intervention
the use of specific strategies to foster behaviour change
interventions do not directly change
behaviour but the influences
Physical Activity Intervention Design
-should be evidence based
behaviour change wheel
A systematic method for designing interventions
inner layer
source of behaviour
middel layer
intervention functions
outside layer
policy categories
persuasion
information about health consequences
education
knowledge about health consequences and feedback from behaviour or lack therefore
incentivisaton
self monitoring of behaviour
training
demonstrate the behaviour
enablement
social support
modeling
demonstrating the behaviour id this is hard model someone performing desired behaviour
environmental restructuring
adjusting the environmental to encourage desired activity
coercion
monitoring the behaviour of others
Automatic motivation
Emotional Reactions and Impulses
reflective motivation
planning, outcome and evaluation
opportunity physical
Time, Resources, Locations, Built
Environment
social opportunity
Social Influences, Social Cues, Cultural
Norms
physical capability
skillset to perform health behaviours
capability psychological
Knowledge- Understanding requirements of behavior, how to maintain
Mental Skill- The psychological framework to begin and maintain health behaviors
Stage 1 – Understand the Behaviour step1
ID the target individual/group and the thing you want to change
Stage 1 – Understand the Behaviour step 2
use your knowledge and the information you gathered to see why this behavioural change is happening
