- Title
- Testing two principles of the health action process approach in individuals with type 2 diabetes
- Creator
- Lippke, Sonia; Plotnikoff, Ronald C.
- Relation
- Health Psychology Vol. 33, Issue 1, p. 77-84
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0030182
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- Objective: The Health Action Process Approach (HAPA) proposes principles that can be translated into testable hypotheses. This is one of the first studies to have explicitly tested HAPA's first 2 principles, which are (1) health behavior change process can be subdivided into motivation and volition, and (2) volition can be grouped into intentional and action stages. The 3 stage groups are labeled preintenders, intenders, and actors. Method: The hypotheses of the HAPA model were investigated in a sample of 1,193 individuals with Type 2 diabetes. Study participants completed a questionnaire assessing the HAPA variables. The hypotheses were evaluated by examining mean differences of test variables and by the use of multigroup structural equation modeling (MSEM). Results: Findings support the HAPA's 2 principles and 3 distinct stages. The 3 HAPA stages were significantly different in several stage-specific variables, and discontinuity patterns were found in terms of nonlinear trends across means. In terms of predicting goals, action planning, and behavior, differences transpired between the 2 motivational stages (preintenders and intenders), and between the 2 volitional stages (intenders and actors). Conclusions: Results indicate implications for supporting behavior change processes, depending on in which stage a person is at: All individuals should be helped to increase self-efficacy. Preintenders and intenders require interventions targeting outcome expectancies. Actors benefit from an improvement in action planning to maintain and increase their previous behavior. Overall, the first 2 principles of the HAPA were supported and some evidence for the other principles was found. Future research should experimentally test these conclusions.
- Subject
- HAPA; goal setting; planning; self-efficacy; path model
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1295981
- Identifier
- uon:19164
- Identifier
- ISSN:0278-6133
- Language
- eng
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