A5000029320- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Physical Activity and Health
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Sleep and related disorders
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Media Influence and Health
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Sport Psychology and Performance
- Workplace Health and Well-being
- Aging and Gerontology Research
- Cardiovascular and exercise physiology
- Cardiac Health and Mental Health
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
Central Queensland University
2016-2025
University of South Carolina
2024-2025
Appleton Public Library
2018-2024
Healthy Start
2024
Motiva (Finland)
2024
Health Promotion Services
2024
McMaster University
2020
Curtin University
2016-2017
University of Victoria
2017
Speech Pathology Australia
2016-2017
Abstract Habit change is often seen as key to successful long‐term behaviour change. Making ‘good’ behaviours habitual—that is, ensuring a prompted automatically on exposure situational cues, based cue‐response associations learnt through context‐consistent repetition—is portrayed mechanism for sustaining such over time. Conversely, disrupting ‘bad’ habits expected terminate longstanding unwanted actions. Yet, some commentators have suggested that the role of habit in real‐world and has been...
Childhood sun exposure increases risk of skin cancer in later life. Parents young children play an important role minimizing childhood exposure. The aim the current study was to identify motivational, volitional, and implicit antecedents parents' sun-protective behaviors based on Integrated Behavior Change model.Parents (N = 373) 2- 5-year-old self-reported their intentions, attitudes, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, autonomous controlled motivation, action plans, habit, past...
Abstract Habitual behaviours are elicited when a familiar context activates cue‐behaviour associations that have been learned through previous performance. A core hypothesis within habit theory is that, by virtue of its automaticity, weakens the impact intention on action, such in facilitating conditions, action will be guided more than momentary intentions. This has led to recommendations formation harnessed as mechanism for sustaining desirable behaviour over time, people would otherwise...
Human development is characterized by the complex interplay of processes that manifest at multiple levels analysis and time-scales. The authors introduce Intraindividual Study Affect, Health Interpersonal Behavior as a model for how time-scale study designs facilitate more precise articulation developmental theory. Combining age heterogeneity, longitudinal panel, daily diary, experience sampling protocols, made use smartphone web-based technologies to obtain intensive data from 150 persons...
Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) has the potential to yield new insights into prediction and modeling of physical activity (PA) sedentary behavior (SB). The objective this study was determine feasibility validity an EMA protocol assess older adults' PA SB. Feasibility determined by examining factors associated with survey compliance if or SB were impacted compliance. Validity comparing EMA-reported objectively measured at prompt. Over 10 days, adults (n = 104; Agerange 60-98 years)...
Quarantine and spatial distancing measures associated with COVID-19 resulted in substantial changes to individuals’ everyday lives. Prominent among these lifestyle was the way which people interacted media—including music listening. In this repeated assessment study, we assessed Australian university students’ media use (i.e., listening music, playing video/computer games, watching TV/movies/streaming videos, using social media) throughout early stages of pandemic Australia, determined...
Objective Habits, defined as well‐learned associations between cues and behaviours, are essential for health‐related including physical activity (PA). Despite the sensitivity of habits to context changes, little remains known about influence a change on interplay PA behaviours. We investigated evolution amidst spring COVID‐19 lockdown, major change. Moreover, we examined association behaviours autonomous motivation with this evolution. Design Three‐wave observational longitudinal design....
Advances in understanding how habit forms can help people change their behaviour ways that make them happier and healthier. Making habitual, such automatically act associated contexts due to learned context-response associations, offers a mechanism for maintaining new, desirable behaviours even when conscious motivation wanes. This has prompted interest the real world. To reliably inform intervention design, formation studies must be conceptually methodologically sound. paper proposes...
People with knowledge of the benefits physical activity tend to be more active; however, such is typically operationalized as a basic understanding that 'good' for health. Therefore, aim this study was investigate whether there are differences in how detailed person's about activity. Participants (N = 615) completed an online survey measure their current behaviour, well level and risks (in)activity. The majority participants (99.6%) strongly agreed good health, however on average, only...