Applications of Integrated Social Cognition Theories in Predicting and Changing Health Behavior
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Psychology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 1394
Special Issue Editors
2. Health Sciences Research Institute, University of California, Merced, CA 95343, USA
Interests: her main areas of research are health psychology and behavioral medicine with interests in health behavior motivation, self-regulation, and change; she is particularly interested in understanding the multiple effects of motivational, volitional, and automatic processes on health behavior and the translation of research findings into policy and practice
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2. School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, 176 Messines Ridge Road, Mt Gravatt, QLD 4122, Australia
Interests: his core areas of research focus on testing integrated models of health psychology and behavioral medicine which include potential motivational, belief based, and automatic determinants of behavior; Daniel’s research has especially focused on modelling the effects of impulsive drivers of health behavior such as implicit beliefs and habits, extending the theory to the situations and contexts in which health behaviors are determined by conscious decision making or automatic responding
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Modifying people’s health behavior requires identifying target behavioral determinants and the accompanying mechanisms by which they guide the behavior. An extensive evidence base of salient antecedents and processes explaining people’s health behavior is provided by prototypical models of social cognition, such as the theory of planned behavior. However, these theories have inherent limitations, and more complex models have emerged that encompass multiple phases and processes, such as the health action process approach and the reflective–impulsive model. Recently, researchers have focused on extending these models and integrating constructs from multiple theories to provide further insight into the complexities of health behavior. This Special Issue aims to provide a collection of papers that showcase integrated theoretical approaches and their adoption and application for predicting and explaining health behavior. The studies in this Special Issue will highlight the multiple processes likely to impact health behavior derived from theory integration, and will provide suggestions on how these data can inform the development of effective behavioral interventions.
Prof. Dr. Kyra Hamilton
Dr. Daniel Phipps
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- social cognition models
- integrated models
- psychology
- behavior change
- prediction
- health behavior
