KINESIOL 3H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Motivation, Health Education, Social Influence
6 Apr 2017
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Social influence: real of imagined pressure to change behaviour, attitudes, or beliefs. Reflected in the amount/type of support received. Types of social support: instrumental support: tangible, someone helping you to do something. Social support: perceived comfort, caring, assistance, and information that a person receives from others. Reflected in the size of one"s social network or reassurance of what you"re doing: )nformation support: advice that"s given, validation: reassurance that a persons thoughts and feelings are normal self, ex. Sources of social influence on exercise: emotional support: providing encouragement, sympathy, provide a sense of comfort, companionship support: doing activity with others, social support to do activities together. Parents provide the opportunities financially. physical activity (role model: how parent views physically activity will influence how a child views, actually doing the activities with the children motivates the child , mother and father have equal influence bonding. Over-protectiveness: too far in protecting from harm, more recent research is focusing on helicopter parenting.
