Background Adolescent substance use is a major problem in and of itself, and because it acts as a risk factor for other problem behaviours. As substance use during adolescence can …
PM Gollwitzer - Motivation and Emotion, 2014 - Springer
Weakness of the will may lead to ineffective goal striving in the sense that people lacking willpower fail to get started, to stay on track, to select instrumental means, and to act …
RA Ferrer, GL Cohen - Personality and Social Psychology …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Self-affirmation—a theory-based technique to affirm the adaptive adequacy of the self—can promote positive behavior change and adaptive outcomes, although effects are variable. We …
Background: many factors can impact a person's behaviour. When the behaviour is subject to prediction, these factors can include, for example, the perceived advantages and …
Abstract Objective Background: Substance use, such as alcohol drinking, tobacco smoking and illicit drug use, have been associated with severe health conditions and an annual …
Objective: Implementation intentions support behavior change by encouraging people to link critical situations with appropriate responses. Overall effectiveness for smoking cessation is …
R Cooke, H McEwan, P Norman - Drug and alcohol review, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Issues Meta‐analysis was used to estimate the effect of forming implementation intentions (ie, if‐then plans) on weekly alcohol consumption and heavy episodic drinking (HED) …
Objective: Theory and evidence indicate that affirming the value of the self before exposure to a threatening message fosters more open-minded appraisal of message content. We …
This study examines the efficacy of implementation intentions (II), a widely used self- regulatory strategy to help people achieve their goals. Although previous research has …