APA 2140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Peripheral Artery Disease, Social Comparison Theory, Motivation

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Human Kinetics
• Course: APA 2140
• Professor: Jennifer Brunet

Document Summary

Motivation: the internal and/or external forces that produce the initiation, direction and persistence of behaviour, direction: situations that a person seeks out approaches or is attracted to. Intensity: how much effort: persistence: maintaining intensity over continuous period. Trans-theoretical model: framework to help explain how individuals initiate and adopt physical activity, central organizing construct of the model is the stages of change, pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance. Interventions targeted to individuals" stage of change are more effective. Social cognitive theory (sct: personal, behavioural and environmental factors affect and determine behaviour, reciprocal determinism is a central tenet, person, environment and behaviour interact to influence one another. Social cognitive theory research: sct constructs account for 40-55% of physical activity behaviour, self-efficacy is linked to behavioural outcomes such as sport performance, sct variables predict >50% of individual differences in physical activity behaviour in diabetes patients.