Assessing Your Attitudes and Norms towards Physical Activity

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The health belief model was initially developed to explain why people fail to adopt which of the following strategies?

  • Dietary strategies
  • Disease prevention strategies (correct)
  • Exercise strategies
  • Mental health strategies

Which of the following is NOT one of the core beliefs proposed by the health belief model?

  • Perceived severity
  • Perceived benefits (correct)
  • Perceived susceptibility
  • Perceived barriers

Which theory proposes that people will be more motivated to act in healthy ways if they believe they are susceptible to a particular negative health outcome?

  • Self-determination theory
  • The transtheoretical model
  • The health belief model (correct)
  • The theory of planned behaviour

According to the health belief model, which of the following is NOT one of the core beliefs that influence behavior?

<p>Perceived barriers (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is NOT a factor that can influence a person's motivation to act according to the health belief model?

<p>Perceived barriers to adopting the behavior (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What can spur a person to adopt a behavior according to the health belief model?

<p>Both internal and external cues (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following variables is NOT typically included in studies of the health belief model?

<p>Perceived susceptibility (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the main focus of the Health Belief Model?

<p>Modifiable psychological influences on behavior (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the most common technique used to change behavior in the studies reviewed by Jones et al. (2014)?

<p>Providing information about health consequences (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What were the results of the cluster randomized control trial conducted by Tola et al. (2016) in Ethiopia?

<p>Patients receiving the intervention had lower non-adherence to TB treatment (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is one criticism/limitation of the Health Belief Model?

<p>Limited consensus about how to operationalize the model variables and the links between them (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which intervention had a significant effect on objectively-assessed attendance?

<p>Control belief intervention (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Ajzen argue about the focus of the intervention?

<p>The intervention should have focused on making sure participants were able to carry out their intentions (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the role of implementation intentions in closing the intention-behaviour gap?

<p>Implementation intentions can increase the correlation between intentions and behaviour (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the criticism about the model's hypotheses?

<p>The model's hypotheses are just common sense statements that can't be falsified (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

According to the theory of planned behaviour, which of the following is NOT one of the factors that predict our behavioural intentions?

<p>Beliefs about the outcomes of the behavior (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What percentage of variation in health behavior did the TPB variables account for, according to McEachan et al.'s meta-analysis?

<p>44.3% (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

According to Steinmetz et al.'s meta-analysis, which of the following interventions was MOST effective in changing attitudes?

<p>Modeling of the behavior (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

According to Sniehotta et al.'s study, which of the following interventions had NO effect on intentions or behavior?

<p>None of the above (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the main argument of Sniehotta et al. (2014)?

<p>The theory of planned behaviour is no longer a plausible theory of behaviour or behaviour change. (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

According to Ajzen (2015), what is his main critique of Sniehotta et al. (2014)?

<p>They misinterpret negative findings of poorly conducted studies as evidence against the theory. (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the overall debate about in the text?

<p>The usefulness of the theory of planned behaviour in psychology. (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the conclusion of Ogden (2015)?

<p>The theory of planned behaviour should be retired. (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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