scholarly journals Procrastination and intentions to perform health behaviors: The role of self-efficacy and the consideration of future consequences

2004 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fuschia M Sirois
Keyword(s):  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Consideration Of Future Consequences ◽  
Future Consequences

scholarly journals Older Adults’ Adherence to Technology-Based Intervention: The Role of Messaging and Individual Differences

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 555-555
Author(s):  
Walter Boot ◽  
Nelson Roque ◽  
Erin Harrell ◽  
Neil Charness
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Individual Difference ◽  
Cognitive Training ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Message Framing ◽  
Training Intervention ◽  
Home Technology

Abstract Adherence to health behaviors is often poor, including adherence to at-home technology-based interventions. This study (N=120) explored adherence to a cognitive training intervention delivered via computer tablet, assessed adherence over a 4.5 month period, explored how individual difference factors shaped adherence, and tested the efficacy of message framing manipulations (positive vs. negative framing) in boosting adherence. Individual difference factors predicted adherence, including variations in self-efficacy and belief in the efficacy of cognitive training. Overall message framing had little impact. However, during the final portion of the study in which participants were asked to play as much or as little as they wanted instead of following a schedule, participants who received positively framed messages engaged with the intervention more. Implications for predicting and boosting adherence to home delivered technology-based interventions will be discussed.

Stage of Change Movement across Three Health Behaviors: The Role of Self-Efficacy

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin L. O'Hea ◽  
Edwin D. Boudreaux ◽  
Shawn K. Jeffries ◽  
Cindy L. Carmack Taylor ◽  
Isabel C. Scarinci ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Stage Of Change

Fear of Detection and Efficacy of Prevention: Using Construal Level to Encourage Health Behaviors

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 582-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chethana Achar ◽  
Nidhi Agrawal ◽  
Meng-Hua Hsieh
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Cancer Detection ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Detection Tool ◽  
Illness Prevention ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Construal Levels

This research examines the psychological processes and factors that shape illness-detection versus illness-prevention health actions. Four experiments using contexts of mental health, skin cancer, and breast cancer show that illness detection evokes fear, which undermines engagement in detection behaviors. Considering detection at low (vs. high) levels of thought reduced fear and increased health persuasion. Illness prevention is driven by self-efficacy perceptions and considering prevention at high (vs. low) levels of thought increases persuasion. In further evidence of process, trait fear moderated the detection effects, and dispositional self-efficacy moderated the prevention effects. As an intervention, framing a detection action as serving illness-prevention goals increased people’s likelihood of engaging with an online breast cancer detection tool. These findings illuminate the psychology of detection as being distinct from the psychology of prevention, identify the role of fear in the consideration of health behaviors, and show contexts in which construal levels have divergent effects on health persuasion.

scholarly journals Social Disparities in Post-Diagnosis Health Behaviors of Iranian Breast Cancer Survivors: The Mediating Role of Psychosocial Factors as Potential Buffering Agents

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Tavakol ◽  
Reza Tayari Ashtiani ◽  
Majid Koosheshi ◽  
Mohammad Esmaeil Akbari ◽  
Maryam Khayamzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Cancer Survivors ◽  
Psychosocial Factors ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Social Disparities ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Mediating Role

Background: Breast cancer (BC) is surging as a public health issue in Iran and engagement in positive health behaviors improves the odds of survival and reduces the risk of concomitant comorbidities in BC survivors. Objectives: The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of socioeconomic inequalities on leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) and fruit and vegetable (F & V) consumption among Iranian BC survivors. Another objective of this study was to examine the role of psychosocial factors, such as stress, self-efficacy, and social support as mediators between socioeconomic status (SES) and these health behaviors. Few studies have investigated social disparities in the health behaviors of cancer survivors. Likewise, the mediating role of psychosocial factors in the SES-health behavior gradient has rarely been explored in the cancer context. Psychosocial factors might have positive implications for socioeconomically disadvantaged survivors. Methods: Cross-sectional data were obtained from 196 patients with BC by a telephone-administrated questionnaire. The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance system (BRFSS) 2013 was partially employed to measure exercise and F & V consumption. Cross-sectional analyses (correlations and logistic regression) were conducted to assess the relationship between SES, psychosocial factors, and health behaviors (P < 0.05). Results: Regarding LTPA and F & V consumption, more than half of the survivors complied with the recommended levels, consecutively. Both education and family income exhibited a positive association with LTPA and F & V consumption. Furthermore, self-efficacy and social support showed a positive relationship with LTPA and F & V consumption. Conclusions: The SES impacted health behaviors directly and via intermediary psychosocial factors. The results can inform future studies and interventions; psychosocial factors could buffer the effects of social inequalities on health behaviors. A key policy priority should, therefore, be planning and implementing psychosocial empowerment interventions to promote exercise and a healthy diet among impoverished cancer survivors.

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