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	<title>Healthy life</title>
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		<title>Support for the TPB</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The TPB has been used to assess a variety of health-related behaviours. For example, Brubaker and Wickersham (1990) examined the role of the theory’s different components in predicting testicular self-examination and reported that attitude towards the behaviour, subjective norm and behavioural control (measured as self-efﬁcacy) correlated with the intention to perform the behaviour. A further [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthylifestyleguide.info/support-for-the-tpb/</link>
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		<title>Criticisms of the TPB</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Schwarzer (1992) has criticized the TPB for its omission of a temporal element and argues that the TPB does not describe either the order of the different beliefs or any direction of causality. However, in contrast to the HBM and the PMT, the model attempts to address the problem of social and environmental factors (in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthylifestyleguide.info/criticisms-of-the-tpb/</link>
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		<title>Using the TPB</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If applied to alcohol consumption, the TPB would make the following predictions: if an individual believed that reducing their alcohol intake would make their life more productive and be beneﬁcial to their health (attitude to the behaviour) and believed that the important people in their life wanted them to cut down (subjective norm), and in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthylifestyleguide.info/using-the-tpb/</link>
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		<title>Components of the TPB</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The TPB emphasizes behavioural intentions as the outcome of a combination of several beliefs.
The theory proposes that intentions should be conceptualized as ‘plans of action in pursuit of behavioural goals’ (Ajzen and Madden 1986) and are a result of the following beliefs:
■ Attitude towards a behaviour, which is composed of either a positive or negative [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthylifestyleguide.info/components-of-the-tpb/</link>
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		<title>The theories of reasoned action and planned behaviour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The theory of reasoned action (TRA) was extensively used to examine predictors of behaviours and was central to the debate within social psychology concerning the relationship between attitudes and behaviour (Fishbein 1967; Ajzen and Fishbein 1970; Fishbein and Ajzen 1975). The theory of reasoned action emphasized a central role for social cognitions in the form [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthylifestyleguide.info/the-theories-of-reasoned-action-and-planned-behaviour/</link>
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		<title>Social cognition models</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Social cognition models examine factors that predict behaviour and/or behavioural intentions and in addition examine why individuals fail to maintain a behaviour to which they are committed. Social cognition theory was developed by Bandura (1977, 1986) and suggests that behaviour is governed by expectancies, incentives and social cognitions. Expectancies include:
■ situation outcome expectancies: the expectancy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthylifestyleguide.info/social-cognition-models/</link>
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		<title>Criticisms of the PMT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The PMT has been less widely criticized than the HBM; however, many of the criticisms of the HBM also relate to the PMT. For example, the PMT assumes that individuals are conscious information processors; it does not account for habitual behaviours, nor does it include a role for social and environmental factors. 
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		<link>http://www.healthylifestyleguide.info/criticisms-of-the-pmt/</link>
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		<title>Support for the PMT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rippetoe and Rogers (1987) gave women information about breast cancer and examined the effect of this information on the components of the PMT and their relationship to the women’s intentions to practise BSE. The results showed that the best predictors of intentions to practise BSE were response effectiveness, severity and self-efﬁcacy. In a further study, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthylifestyleguide.info/support-for-the-pmt/</link>
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		<title>Using the PMT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If applied to dietary change, the PMT would make the following predictions: information about the role of a high fat diet in coronary heart disease would increase fear, increase the individual’s perception of how serious coronary heart disease was (perceived severity), and increase their belief that they were likely to have a heart attack (perceived [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthylifestyleguide.info/using-the-pmt/</link>
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		<title>Components of the protection motivation theory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The original PMT claimed that health-related behaviours are a product of four components:
1 Severity (e.g. ‘Bowel cancer is a serious illness’).
2 Susceptibility (e.g. ‘My chances of getting bowel cancer are high’).
3 Response effectiveness (e.g. ‘Changing my diet would improve my health’).
4 Self-efﬁcacy (e.g. ‘I am conﬁdent that I can change my diet’).
These components predict behavioural [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.healthylifestyleguide.info/components-of-the-protection-motivation-theory/</link>
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