Year: 2010
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Changing an existing habit requires people to establish a motivation or intention to change,\nmake decisions and action plans, recognise and overcome barriers (both practical and\npsychological), initiate the new routine, and then to maintain the new routine, resisting\ntemptations to relapse back to former habits. There is great potential for individual variation\nin motivations, as well as numerous social, environmental, and psychological factors which\nmight facilitate or hinder efforts to make change. Approaches for supporting changes in diet\nand physical activity, as used in practice, vary from simple information-giving to more\nintensive programmes, which may or may not be based on theoretical models of behaviour\nchange.
Authors: Colin Greaves, Prasuna Reddy, Kate Sheppard
Language: English
Subfield: Applied Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2131862225