Health Promotion
Rupa S. Valdez, Richard J. Holden in The Patient Factor, 2021
The Theory of Reasoned Action (Ajzen, 1985; Ajzen & Fishbein, 1977) emphasizes the crucial and immediate role of behavioral intentions to adopt a new behavior. The Theory of Planned Behavior (Ajzen, 1991) further suggests that the behavioral intention is shaped by attitudes (the beliefs about the positive or negative consequences of the behavior), subjective norms (the motivations and beliefs to comply with the behavior from other peers and social norms), and perceived behavior control (the beliefs of control over one’s behavior). The theory of planned behavior has been used to explain the adoption of health promotion behavior, such as PA (Hausenblas et al., 1997), smoking cessation (Topa & Moriano Leon, 2010), HIV prevention (Albarracín et al., 2001), and chronic illness treatment adherence (Rich et al., 2015).
Understanding medicine taking: models and explanations
Jon Dowell, Brian Williams, David Snadden in Patient-Centered Prescribing, 2018
Consider John, a 50-year-old man with hypertension who is asymptomatic, does not feel ill, does not regard raised blood pressure as a major problem and does not feel particularly susceptible to any subsequent adverse events. While he does not really perceive any benefits from taking antihypertensives, he equally does not see any harm in taking them. He has a history of taking his drugs religiously, but why? His wife, whose father had hypertension and died in his late forties, is concerned about her husband’s health. She has expressed this concern to him along with her view that he should take his drugs, which she sets out for him each morning. The health belief model does not give explicit place to the views of others such as this. The theory of planned behavior refers to these views as ‘subjective norms.’ The theory proposes that a person’s perceptions of what others think he or she should do and the degree to which that person values the views of those others will together influence subsequent health or illness behavior.
The Rasch Model Applied across the Human Sciences
Trevor G. Bond, Zi Yan, Moritz Heene in Applying the Rasch Model, 2020
In the face of critiques from reviewers and colleagues, “What happened to those SEs of the person estimates that Rasch users claim to be so important?”, Yan, Brown, Lee and Qiu (2019) adopted an innovative approach to using Rasch measures in path analysis study of factors predicting students’ self-assessment intentions and practices. Interestingly, they also adopted a research framework based on Ajzen’s Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB; see Figure 10.7). The data from a sample of 1425 students in the upper primary and lower secondary levels in Hong Kong schools were included in this study. Self-assessment is a routine learning practice for Primary 4 to Secondary 3 students who are obliged to self-assess on the completion of each learning unit. Students completed 11 scales which were constructed explicitly for this project and aligned to the TPB constructs plus one additional construct, i.e., psychological safety, to self-report their intentions and practices pertaining to self-assessment. The psychometric properties of scales were examined using Rasch RSM and path analysis based on Rasch-calibrated person measures was used to investigate relationships among the latent variables. Because the relationships between the variables was consonant with the multidimensional item response model we describe in Chapter 12, in this study the researchers used the ConQuest program (Wu, Adams, Wilson, & Haldane, 2007) to implement the Rasch rating scale model (RSM).
Dating Infidelity in Turkish Couples: The Role of Attitudes and Intentions
Published in The Journal of Sex Research, 2018
Ezgi Toplu-Demirtaş, Frank D. Fincham
Dating infidelity is increasingly common among young adults, particularly among emerging adults in Western cultures where it has been shown to be detrimental to the relationship and to both partners’ well-being (see McAnulty & McAnulty, 2012). Moreover, actual and/or perceived threats of dating infidelity can result in further consequences, such as dating violence. Not surprisingly, it is a common presenting problem for dating and married couples entering therapy (Bischoff, 2003). Despite systematic research on dating infidelity, the potentially important role of two variables that might predict such behavior, attitudes toward infidelity and intentions to engage in infidelity, have not been fully explored. This oversight is emphasized by the fact that attitudes and intentions are two variables that are important components of arguably the most influential theory used to predict behavior, the theory of planned behavior (Fishbein & Ajzen, 2005). In the theory of planned behavior, attitudes toward a behavior, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and behavioral intentions shape an individual’s behavior.
The theory of planned behavior and strength training in college-aged women
Published in Journal of American College Health, 2022
Diana Cuy Castellanos, Corinne M. Daprano, Clarissa Blevins, Anne Crecelius
The Theory of Planned Behavior is a theoretical model first described by Ajzen17 consisting of three main constructs: attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control that predict behavioral intention (Figure 1). Within the Theory of Planned Behavior, attitudes are defined as the beliefs and appraisal of outcomes associated with the behavior of interest. Subjective norms entail the social pressure an individual may feel to perform the behavior. Finally, perceived behavior control is the perceived difficulty or ability to perform the behavior. Each construct consists of indirect and direct determinants. The indirect determinants relate to the salient beliefs and values related to the direct attitudes, subjective norms and perceive behavior control suggesting the constructs can be altered based on the continual assessment of these beliefs. The Theory of Planned Behavior can be used to predict and explain behaviors and has been a widely used theory in physical activity research.18–21 As mentioned previously, the Integrated Behavior Model, which is an adapted version of the Theory of Planned Behavior, has also been used to examine factors relating to intention and behavior related to strength training in a college student population.
Behavior Change Techniques Used in Binge Drinking Interventions among College Students: A Systematic Review
Published in Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 2022
Jessica Sorcher, Paul Branscum
The concept of “attitudes” appears as a major determinant of health behaviors in a number of theories such as the Health Belief Model, Theory of Planned Behavior, and Social Cognitive Theory. Previously, a meta-analysis of prospective studies using the Reasoned Action Approach (a recent iteration of the Theory of Planned Behavior) found constructs in the model predicted 31% of the variance in health behaviors and 59% of the variance in intentions, among which affective (r+ = 0.546) and cognitive attitudes (r+ = 0.384) had a medium effect on intentions, and affective (r+ = 0.299) and cognitive attitudes (r+ = 0.195) had a small-to-medium effect on behavior (McEachan et al., 2016). In a separate meta-analysis of experimental evidence (i.e. intervention studies), it was reported that changing attitudes across a number of health behaviors typically resulted in having a medium (d= 0.48) effect on changing intentions, and a small-to-medium effect on changing health behavior (d= 0.38) (Sheeran et al., 2016). Because this category was so frequently used, it may indicate binge drinking interventions are over-relying on informing participants about the negative consequences of binge drinking to change behavior, and subsequently missing opportunities to incorporate other theoretical determinants of health and BCTs.
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