By Mark Conner, Paul Norman
Cutting-edge study on health and wellbeing habit
The moment version of this well known booklet has been extended and up-to-date all through to incorporate the main up to date insurance of study on social cognition types and future health behaviors.
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Predicting Health Behaviour: A Social Cognition Approach 13 it is necessary to conduct a detailed analysis of the nature of these stages (see Sutton, Chapter 6 in this volume, for a review). From a social cognitive perspective, an important implication of this position is that different cognitions may be important at different stages in promoting health behaviour. One of the first stage models was put forward by Prochaska and DiClemente (1984) in their transtheoretical model of change (TMC). Their model has been widely applied to analyse the process of change in alcoholism treatment (DiClemente and Hughes 1990) and smoking cessation (DiClemente et al.
G. Grady et al. 1983) interviews have also been employed. g. Becker et al. 1974; Mullen et al. 1987; Ronis and Harel 1989; Winfield and Whaley 2002). Findings from research studies employing the HBM are reviewed below. We first examine evidence for the predictive utility of the model’s four major constructs: susceptibility, severity, benefits and barriers. Second, 34 Charles Abraham and Paschal Sheeran findings relating to cues to action and health motivation, which have received less empirical attention, are considered.
