Predicting changes in physical activity among adolescents: The role of self-efficacy, intention, action planning and coping planning

Health Education Research

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 128-139

  Araújo Soares, Vera ^a,b   McIntyre, Teresa ^c   Sniehotta, Falko F ^d  

^a ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Alliance for Self Care Research   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTENTION; MALE; PORTUGAL; SELF EFFICACY;

EID: 58749108635     PISSN: 02681153     EISSN: 14653648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/her/cyn005     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Ness AR, Leary SD, Mattocks C et al. Objectively measured physical activity and fat mass in a large cohort of children. PLoS Med 2007; 4: e97.
2. Bouchard C, Despres J-P. Physical activity and health: atherosclerotic, metabolic, and hypertensive disease. Res Q Exerc Sport 1995; 66: 268-75.
3. Hallal PC, Victora CG, Azevedo MR et al. Adolescent physical activity and health: a systematic review. Sports Med 2006; 36: 1019-30.
4. Mokdad AH, Marks JS, Stroup DF et al. Actual causes of death in the United States, 2000. J Am Med Assoc 2004; 291: 1238-45.
5. Allender S, Foster C, Scarborough P et al. The burden of physical activity-related ill health in the UK. J Epidemiol Community Health 2007; 61: 344-8.
6. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Guidelines for school and community programs to promote lifelong physical activity among young people. Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 1997; 46: 1-88.
7. Pate RR, Pratt M, Blair SN et al. Physical activity and public health: a recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American College of Sports Medicine. J Am Med Assoc 1995; 273: 402-7.
8. Varo JJ, Martínez-González MA, de Irala-Estévez J et al. Distribution and determinants of sedentary lifestyles in the European Union. Int J Epidemiol 2003; 32: 138-46.
9. Currie C, Roberts C, Morgan A et al. (eds). Young People's Health in Context: international report from the HBSC 2001/02 survey, WHO Policy Series: Health policy for children and adolescents Issue 4, WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2004; No 4. Copenhagen.
10. Ogden CL, Flegal KM, Carroll MD et al. Prevalence and trends in overweight among US children and adolescents, 1999-2000. J Am Med Assoc 2002; 288: 1728-32.
11. Marcus HB, Williams DM, Dubbert PM et al. What we know and what we need to know: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism (Subcommittee on Physical Activity); Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young; and the Interdisciplinary Working Group on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research. Circulation 2006; 114: 2739-52.
12. Glasgow RE, Klesges LM, Dzewaltowski DA et al. The future of health behavior change research: what is needed to improve translation of research into health promotion practice? Ann Behav Med 2004; 27: 3-12.
13. Kok H, Schaalma H, Ruiter RAC et al. Intervention mapping: a protocol for applying health psychology theory to prevention programmes. J Health Psychol 2004; 9: 85-98.
14. Michie S, Abraham C. Interventions to change health behaviours: evidence-based or evidence-inspired? Psychol Health 2004; 19: 29-49.
15. Rothman AJ. Is there nothing more practical than a good theory? Why, innovations and advances in health behavior change will arise if interventions are used to test and refine theory. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 2004; 1: 11.
16. Campbell M, Fitzpatrick R, Haines A et al. Framework for design and evaluation of complex interventions to improve health. Br Med J 2000; 321: 694-6.
17. Ajzen I. From intentions to actions: a theory of planned behaviour. In: Kuhl J, Beckmann J (eds). Action Control: From Cognition to Behaviour. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1985, 11-40.
18. Bandura A. Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control. New York: W H Freeman/Times Books/Henry Holt and Co, 1997.
19. Weinstein ND. Testing four competing theories of health-protective behavior. Health Psychol 1993; 12: 324-33.
20. Fishbein M, Bandura A, Triandis HC et al. Factors Influencing Behavior and Behavior Change: Final Report of the Theorists' Workshop. Washington, DC: National Institutes of Mental Health, 1991.
21. Dixon D, Johnston M. The gap between theory and measurement: are operationalisations of self-efficacy and perceived behavioural control compatible with their theoretical conceptualisations? Proc Br Psychol Soc 2005; 13: 68.
22. Hagger MS, Chatzisarantis N, Biddle SJH. A meta-analytic review of the theories of reasoned action and planned behavior in physical activity: predictive validity and the contribution of additional variables. J Sport Exerc Psychol 2002; 24: 3-32.
23. Orbell S, Sheeran P. "Inclined abstainers": a problem for predicting health-related behaviour. Br J Soc Psychol 1998; 37: 151-65.
24. Rhodes RE, Macdonald H, McKay HA. Predicting physical activity intention and behaviour among children in a longitudinal sample. Soc Sci Med 2006; 62: 3146-56.
25. Scholz U, Sniehotta FF, Schüz B et al. Dynamics in selfregulation: plan-execution self-efficacy and mastery of action plans. J Appl Soc Psychol. 2007; 37: 2706-25.
26. Reynolds KD, Killen JD, Bryson SW et al. Psychosocial predictors of physical activity in adolescents. Prev Med. 1990; 19: 541-51.
27. Webb TL, Sheeran P. Does changing behavioural intentions engender behavior change? A meta-analysis of the experimental evidence. Psychol Bull 2006; 132: 249-68.
28. Chatzisarantis NLD, Hagger MS. Effects of a brief intervention based on the theory of planned behaviour on leisure time physical activity participation. J Sport Exerc Psychol 2005; 27: 470-87.
29. Abraham C, Sheeran P, Johnston M. From health beliefs to self-regulation: theoretical advances in the psychology of action control. Psychol Health 1998; 13: 569-91.
30. Gollwitzer PM. Implementation intentions. Strong effects of simple plans. Am Psychol 1999; 54: 493-503.
31. Gollwitzer PM, Sheeran P. Implementation intentions and goal achievement: a meta-analysis of effects and processes. Adv Exp Soc Psychol 2006; 38: 249-68.
32. Sniehotta FF, Schwarzer R, Scholz U et al. Action planning and coping planning for long-term lifestyle change: theory and assessment. Eur J Soc Psychol 2005; 35: 565-76.
33. Mischel W, Patterson CJ. Effective plans for self-control in children. In: WA Collins, (ed). Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology 11. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 1978, 11: 199-230.
34. Marlatt GA. Taxonomy of high-risk situations for alcohol relapse: evolution and development of a cognitive-behavioral model. Addiction 1996; 91: 37-50.
35. Simkin LR, Gross AM. Assessment of coping with high-risk situations for exercise relapse among healthy women. Health Psychol 1994; 13: 274-7.
36. Sniehotta FF, Scholz U, Schwarzer R. Action plans and coping plans for physical exercise: a longitudinal intervention study in cardiac rehabilitation. Br J Health Psychol 2006; 11: 23-37.
37. Higgins A, Conner M. Understanding adolescent smoking: the role of the theory of planned behaviour and implementations intentions. Psychol Health Med 2003; 8: 173-86.
38. Brickell T, Chatzisarantis N, Pretty G. Using past behaviour and spontaneous implementation intentions to enhance the utility of the theory of planned behaviour in predicting exercise. Br J Health Psychol 2006; 11: 249-62.
39. de Vries H, Mesters I, van't Riet J et al. Motives of Belgian adolescents for using sunscreen: the role of action plans. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2006; 15: 1360-6.
40. Jones F, Abraham C, Harris P et al. From knowledge to action regulation: modeling the cognitive prerequisites of sun screen use in Australian and UK samples. Psychol Health 2001; 16: 191-206.
41. Luszczynska A, Schwarzer R. Planning and self-efficacy in the adoption and maintenance of breast self-examination: a longitudinal study on self-regulatory cognitions. Psychol Health 2003; 18: 93-108.
42. Rise J, Kovac V, Kraft P et al. Predicting the intention to quit smoking and quitting behaviour: extending the theory of planned behaviour. Br J Health Psychol. in press.
43. Sniehotta FF, Scholz U, Schwarzer R. Bridging the intention-behaviour gap: planning, self-efficacy, and action control in the adoption and maintenance of physical exercise. Psychol Health 2005; 20: 143-60.
44. Norman P, Conner M. The theory of planned behavior and exercise: evidence for the mediating and moderating roles of planning on intention-behavior relationships. J Sport Exerc Psychol 2005; 27: 488-504.
45. Baranowski T, Anderson C, Carmack C. Mediating variable framework in physical activity interventions: how are we doing? How might we do better? Am J Prev Med 1998; 15: 266-97.
46. Araújo-Soares V, McIntyre T, MacLennan G et al. Development and exploratory cluster-randomised opportunistic trial of a theory-based intervention to enhance physical activity amongst adolescents. Psychol Health. in press.
47. Ajzen I. Constructing a TpB questionnaire: conceptual and methodological considerations. 2006. Available at: http:// people.umass.edu/aizen/pdf/tpb. measurement.pdf. Accessed: 17 December 2006.
48. McIntyre T, Araújo-Soares V. Programa integrado de promoção da saúde para ddolescentes "É o teu corpo: Usa-o bem!!!"-PIPSA. ARS-Norte: Porto, Potugal, 2002.
49. Craig CL, Marshall AL, Sjostrom M et al. International physical activity questionnaire: 12-country reliability and validity. Med Sci Sports Exerc 2003; 35: 1381-95.
50. Aiken LS, West SG. Multiple Regression: Testing and Interpreting Interactions. Newbury Park, London: Sage, 1991.
51. McClelland GH, Judd CM. Statistical difficulties of detecting interactions and moderator effects. Psychol Bull 1993; 114: 376-90.
52. Barkley RA. Behavioral inhibition, sustained attention, and executive functions: constructing a unifying theory of ADHD. Psychol Bull 1997; 121: 65-94.
53. Burgess PW. Theory and methodology in executive function research. In: Rabbitt P (ed). Methodology of Frontal and Executive Function. Hove, UK: Psychology Press; 1997, 16-81.
54. Gawrilow C, Gollwitzer P. Implementation intentions facilitate response inhibition in children with ADHD. Cognit Ther Res in press.
55. Wegner DM. Ironic processes of mental control. Psychol Rev 1994; 101: 34-52.
56. Sallis JF, Saelens BE. Assessment of physical activity by self-report: status, limitations, and future directions. Res Q Exerc Sport 2000; 71: 1-14.
57. Kohl HW, Fulton JE, Caspersen CJ. Assessment of physical activity among children and adolescents: a review and synthesis. Prev Med 2000; 31: S54-76.