HLSC 2P49 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Legal Drinking Age, Passive Smoking, Health Promotion
24 Jan 2017
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Useful for two reasons: provides a model that links beliefs directly to behaviour, provides a fine grained picture of peoples intentions with respect to a particular health habit. Predicts a broad array of health behaviours including, condom use among injection drug users, sunbathing and sunscreen, and oral contraceptives, etc. Intention is to perform several health protective behaviours. Implemented intentions: is a specific intention that highlights the. Implementation intentions and health behaviour change how, when and where of a behaviour and also includes (cid:498)if then(cid:499) contingency plans to deal with anticipated barriers to the behaviour. Attitudes, social cognition and changing health behaviours: some caveats. Not successful in explaining spontaneous behaviour change. Thinking about disease can produce a negative mood. Social cognitive models view health behaviour change as largely rational process and can therefore neglect to consider important factors such as the role of affective variables.
