The Handbook of Behaviour Change

Changing Behavior Using the Theory of Planned Behavior

In the mid-1980s, Heckhausen and Gollwitzer set out to analyze how people control their actions (see Heckhausen, Gollwitzer, & Weinert, 1987). They quickly realized that breaking action control down into different phases greatly benefited its understanding. Heckhausen and Gollwitzer’s analysis was heavily influenced by the work of Kurt Lewin (e.g., Lewin et al., 1944), for whom there was never any doubt that motivational phenomena can only be properly understood and analyzed from an action perspective that distinguishes the processes of goal setting from those of goal striving, an insight that went unheeded for several decades. Accordingly, Heckhausen and Gollwitzer (1987) proposed the “Rubicon”model of action phases, which describes the course of action as a temporal, linear path starting with a person’s wishes or desires and ending with the evaluation of the action outcomes achieved. The model was designed to raise and help answer the following questions: How do people select their goals? How do they plan the execution of goal striving? How do they enact these plans? Moreover, how do they evaluate their accomplishments? According to the Rubicon model, a course of action involves a phase of deliberating the desirability and feasibility of one’s wishes at the outset in order to arrive at a binding decision regarding which of them one wants to pursue as a goal (pre-decisional phase), a phase of planning concrete strategies for achieving this goal Practical Summary

Changing Behavior Using the Model of Action Phases

Changing Behavior Using the Health Action Process Approach

Attitudes and Persuasive Communication Interventions

Aims: The work undertaken aimed to develop an alcohol‐related brief intervention based on the theoretical concepts of the self‐efficacy construct. The brief intervention was to be administered by general nurses in a general hospital setting for patients who were identified as potential problem drinkers.Background: Alcohol‐related brief interventions use methods such as booklets, verbal advice, counselling and behaviour change techniques in an attempt to change alcohol consumption behaviour with the aim of reducing levels of alcohol consumption. Miller and Sanchez () identified self‐efficacy as one of six elements typically included in brief interventions. Nurses have been identified as being in a prime position to administer interventions (Arthur, ). This work provides essential information relating to the specific content of interventions and the processes involved for nurses to fulfil this role.Methods: The intervention was developed following a review of existing related literature.Findings: Using the ...

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