Social Cognitive Behavior Analysis

Ordinarily, individuals are tempted to make unhealthy choices in the environment they live in, with even candy readily available at gas stations, customers are responsible for what they buy. To be able to overcome obesity, one has to have motivation to be healthy in the

This assignment and the first 4 units of this course will assist me in becoming a healthier person not only personally but also professionally. I have struggled with my diet the past few years, either consuming to much or to little, ultimately eating not very healthy. My goal is to eat from each food group the best I can and to eat the portion sizes that is needed for my body. I am going to try and change my eating habits to create more positive choices for myself. Taking care of myself inside will help in the workforce mentally and physically but also help with my knowledge about healthy eating, I’ll be able to share and teach by example.

In the 1950’s the health belief model (HBM) was introduced to explain why people who are healthy, continue to participate in activities that keep them free of illness; while others neglect to be involved with healthy activities (Pender, Murdaugh, & Parsons, 2015). PubMed was used to find this article with the limitations of an article written in the last five years, humans, and English; the Mesh words used was health belief model. The article Applying the health belief model to college students’ health behavior, written by Kim, Ahn, and No, in 2012, reviews the study done to explain the use of HBM on college students and healthy students. This paper will discuss the use of the health belief model, in college students, to determine if their knowledge of nutrition will affect their healthy behaviors.

Maria’s family-related experiences learned during her childhood contributed to a distorted cognition of eating. Maria’s family food-related experiences are associated with her mother’s restriction of eating as a way of punishment. Use of food as a punishment increases the intake of food when the children have access to it. As consequence of this type of punishment Maria learned maladaptive attitudes and behaviors such as eating secretly and keeping food in hidden places in order to manage her hunger. Researches propose that food restrictions increase desire and intake of the food. At the same time the individual will show difficulties to self-regulate the food

I consider only the first two practices as health promotion activities. So, to increase health promotion, I chose three activities that I could incorporate including, getting eight hours of sleep nightly, removing diet soda from my diet, and adding weight training three times a week. A full-time job, family responsibilities and class work are perceived barriers to getting adequate sleep and participating in strength training. My desire to do well in school conflicts with my fear that less time for class work results in lower grades. Pender’s model acknowledges the importance of personal perceptions by stating that they directly, and indirectly influence health behavior (Petiprin, 2016-b). To incorporate these two activities, I need to assess and document my daily time commitments and activities. This will show where I could fit these health practices into my life. Another possibility is asking family members to take over some of my responsibilities on certain days to free up my time. Abstaining from diet drinks may be more difficult because eating patterns and food/drink preferences are ingrained from past experiences. For example, if someone thinks pizza and a cola go together, then eating pizza while having a glass of water is less enjoyable. For me, the key to giving up diet drinks is finding an alternative beverage such as tea or fruit infused water that I could substitute when wanting something to drink other than water. To meet these goals, Pender’s model emphasizes the need to identify and commit to a strategy which will support healthy behaviors (Petiprin,

Utilizing appropriate health psychology strategies to establish health-enhancing behaviors is critical to preventing the onset of chronic illnesses. Through this assignment, I monitored my consumption of sugar from unhealthy-food items for one week. I then utilized cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) strategies and the transtheoretical model of behavior change model to design an effective intervention plan that I implemented for two weeks.

During my three-day observation, I noticed that I consumed foods that were above the limit intake. There were days where I ate a lot of foods and other days were I did not consume enough nutrients. During my time at work, I noticed that I skip meals. I skip meals because I feel that I consume a lot of calories when I eat an item from Taco Bell. I believe this because my family says that eating too much food from fast food restaurants is bad for ones health. Also, I noticed that I get fully satisfied when I eat breakfast. When this happens, I tend to skip meals, such as, lunch. Skipping meals is not a healthy choice and I plan to improve this by eating my meals, even if I am not hungry. Consuming food is better than not eating at

The analysis in this article and study focuses on the structural relationships between the occupational and educational dimensions of the stratification system, status expectation processes, and the norms of equity within marriage. This study took place in 1981. This analysis uses data from a survey of Kentucky women collected by Louis Harris and Associates for the Kentucky Commission on Women. Data was collected by telephone interviews in households selected by random digit dialing by geographic location. According to Louis Harris and Associates, 89 percent of the households in Kentucky had telephone service. Harris reported that 18 percent of the interviews were completed in a subsequent contact. 1,533 couples were analyzed for this survey. The working hypothesis of this analysis is that structural conditions and the

I went to the learning resource center and found this. The literature on social class disparities in health and education contains 2 underlying, yet often opposed models of behavior: the individual model and the structural model. These models refer to largely unacknowledged assumptions about the sources of human behavior that are foundational to research and interventions. Our review and theoretical integration proposes that, in contrast to how the 2 models are typically represented, they are not opposed, but instead they are complementary sets of understandings that inform and extend each other. Further, we elaborate the theoretical rationale and predictions for a third model: the sociocultural self-model of behavior. This model incorporates

I can change my behavior to make sound nutritional decisions by making a list of food items that I normally eat and incorporated new items that are healthy for me to maintain my health and diet.

This article is using the social cognitive theory and social network theory to start a prevention movement to decrease obesity in adolescents. Hence, the social cognitive theory concentrates on adolescent independence and self-efficacy in healthy eating behaviors; and, the social network theory is the application to use social media to educate adolescents in nutritional choices. It is important to look at the developing intake behavior of adolescents to help guide a healthy eating habits to stop the increase rate of obesity. A seven-week operation was established at an urban high school in Omaha, Nebraska to assess the adolescent’s eating habits in an educational environment. A food production record data was collected calculating the servings

Complex performance related tasks are ideal when proximal goals are presented through a distal goal setting (Bandura 1886). Goals are individual’s capacity to complete the desired results. Proximal goal setting compared to distal, often leads to higher success rate especially when associated with goals that are relatively complex (Latham & Seijts, 1999). The social cognitive theory has been contributed to the work of Albert Badura, who recognized that cognitive learning is a key aspect that separates humans from other forms of life. This phenomenological approach analyzes the understanding and changing behavior in people, through observations, motivation, past experiences, and cognition. The following will give a further explanation of the phenomenological theory, and analyze three empirical studies, which focus on proximal and distal goal setting towards weight loss. Lastly, I will use the data from the empirical studies to discuss the validity of the social cognitive theory.The social cognitive theory suggests that behavioral, personal, environmental, and cognitive factors influence behavior and motivation (Cervone & Pervin, 2008). It argues against a previous theory of behaviorism, which believed behavior is only influence of the individual. The theory provides a framework for understanding, predicting, and changing human behavior. The theory relates to the idea of reciprocal determinism. Reciprocal determinism has three factors contributing to the concept of the social

However, our eating habits and lifestyle can affect us for the rest of our lives based upon our environment, family, friends, and through social media. Which is why, for this paper we have chosen our targeted age group of 15-24 years old.

Reflecting on this past week for this assignment was definitely something that put my dietary habits into prospective. After keeping a log for the past seven days, it was quite alarming to see how detrimental my eating habits are on a daily basis. Not only is this disturbing, but also has me contemplating how to truthful I am to myself about my dietary habits. Hopefully by recognizing the error in my ways, I can correct these actions in order to better my well-being and health in the future. I am a food advocate and absolutely love everything about it consequently; I am realizing that I can provide much better alternatives to my diet.

In order to improve my eating behavior, I first needed to observe my undesired behavior. It was important for me to be aware of how, when, what and why behavior occurs under different circumstances. The problem I have is eating junk food just because its there, or because I am too lazy to cook. I am