The Social Cognitive Theory Of A Dynamic And Reciprocal Fashion

Childhood obesity is a growing problem in America. "the percentage of obese children doubling from 6.5% in 1980, to 17.0% in 2006. Weight, nutrition, and physical activity are the main components to a child’s overall health.”(1) “When parents become too busy to cook meals in their homes, children learn poor eating habits and develop into unhealthy eaters.”(1) They will take what they learned at home and apply it to anywhere else that they eat. For example a child that drinks milk at dinner and sits with their family at dinner when asked what they want to drink when they are at a friend’s home will ask for milk because the child would associate milk with dinner. Children cannot make healthy choices of their own they need to be guided so

Team BLAZE (Beginning Life with AmaZing Examples) is a project designed to decrease childhood obesity in low income school districts. Team BLAZE is a school based program that incorporates healthy nutritional options along with daily physical activities within a safe learning environment to low income regions in America. The program initially focuses on children ages 5-17 in the rural Mississippi Delta, where obesity rates “far exceed those of the state and nation” (Gamble et al., 2012, p 478). Team BLAZE is modeled after Save the Children’s CHANGE (Creating Healthy, Active and Nurturing Growing-Up Environments) study, a 2-year (2007-2009) randomized, controlled, community and school-based intervention to prevent unhealthy weight gain among rural school aged children (Save the Children, 2008). The CHANGE study used an innovative, multicomponent community-based intervention in rural America to improve the diets of children and proved to be successful in lowering rates of obesity at the studied locations (Save the Children, 2008). Likewise, Team BLAZE uses a multidirectional approach by targeting changes in school nutrition,

This is a critique of the study “Sociocultural Influences on Weight-Related Behaviors in African American Adolescents” by Nutrena H. Tate, Jean E. Davis, and Hossein N. Yarandi. The findings in this study can educate readers on a culturally sensitive topic, promoting healthy weight-related behavriors while reducing the obesity epidemic “within the African American adolescent population” (Tate, Davis, & Yarandi, 2015, p. 1).

The Social Cognitive Theory identifies the influences of peers, family members, personal characteristics and societal norms and culture as the main determinants of a person’s opinion (Hastings, 2007, Bandura, 1986). It identifies the reciprocal relationship between personal and environmental factors as an important factor that affect a person’s beliefs, opinions and behaviours toward a certain social issue. The concept of Social Cognitive Theory points out that, to change the perceptions and behaviour of the target

Kim, Ahn, and No used a quantitative method was used examine multiple factors of the study. A collection of 251 questionnaires were given to six different classes via online learning system or class email. The questions addressed nutrition confidence, susceptibility, severity, barrier, and benefit of the intent to eat healthy and the intent to do physical activity. Two pilot studies to determine if the respondents could understand what was being tested and to check the validity of the study.

The social cognitive theory is a social psychology theory created by Albert Bandura that stems from the social learning theory. Social cognitive theory suggests that there are multiple factors that shape and affect the behavior of an individual. Personal, behavioral, and environmental factors can influence each other and influence how an individual behaves. The hypothesis for this study was that nature based leisure experiences would benefit military veterans by improving psychological well-being, social functioning, and life outlook.

We are evaluating Eat Healthy, Stay Active! (EHSA), a multi-level obesity prevention program that includes Head Start children, parents, and staff. Designed at the University of California-Los Angeles, Eat Healthy, Stay Active! (EHSA) is a national program that was piloted at Head Start in Columbia, MO in 2013. The program consists of staff training, parent training, and a coordinated classroom curriculum led by staff. They expanded the program to include medical students from University of Missouri, Columbia. Medical students take part in 4 training sessions and 3 EHSA parental education sessions. Topics for student training sessions include: culture of poverty, nutrition in the low-income populations, health literacy, while parent training

The third component of personal cognitive factors is social persuasion. Social persuasion includes verbal and non-verbal influence of others intended to increase self-efficacy. Laurens school counselors are attempting to increase her self-efficacy by recommending rehab. The school counselors are giving Lauren verbal influence to help herself so she can make better future decisions. The final component is physiological or affective states. Physiological states include heart rate, breathing, pain, or instability. Affective states include the positivity or negativity. Lauren has experienced instability and emotional negativity due to having to move out of the dorms. Since moving out of the dorms, Lauren has experienced emotional taxation because of the additional dependence that comes with living off campus. All the components of the personal cognitive factors lead to Laurens self-efficacy and future behaviors, cognitions, and affect.

I enjoyed reading your post as your public health issue and strategies are similar to my topic. My focus was on the increased incidence of heart disease in African-American women. Obesity is one of the major risk factors for heart disease. Considering the high rate of overweight or obesity in children of the African-American community, they are prone to develop cardiovascular disease at a very young age. It is even more alarming to find out that African-American adolescent girls of 12-19 years of age have the highest prevalence of obesity of any group by gender, race, or ethnicity.1 I believe that children can change their attitudes towards eating healthy food if they are encouraged to do so both at home and school. Schools are an important part of a growing child’s life. Training children to eat healthy food during childhood and adolescence is important for their growth and development. This in turn reduces the risk of health problems such as obesity, heart disease, osteoporosis, iron deficiency anemia, dental caries, diabetes and high cholesterol.2 Research also suggests that eating a healthy breakfast

The Behavioral Perspective: This perspective is based on environmental rewards and punishers to encourage or discourage behaviors. This is usually notes through direct observation of the particular act in the specific environment. Social cognitive learning is used to further explain values, expectations, and intentions of the individual. This theory was the main stream behaviorist theory for over 50 years, as it focuses on precision and objectivity. It is thought to have advanced science as a whole and has given psychology some of the most accurate and detailed finding to date.

For this program, I will be using the Health Belief Model (HBM). This model is most appropriate for the students at Needham High School (NHS). The majority of NHS students understand that unhealthy eating behaviors can lead to becoming overweight, obese, unhealthy, and lead to other diet and lifestyle-related diseases. Most students understand that poor dietary behaviors, as well as lack of physical activity, can increase their risk of developing diseases, such as type two diabetes, stroke, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, metabolic syndrome, certain types of cancer, joint problems, sleep apnea, and coronary heart disease. Many students understand the benefits of healthy eating and lifestyle behaviors, however barriers such as lack of time, busy over-scheduled lives, access to unhealthy foods (fast or processed), and the culture that surrounds high school students (going out to eat socially), directly impact their choices and behaviors. As a high school aged student (17-19 years), many do not perceive or feel at risk of many of the above listed health-related diseases. There is no real perceived immediate danger, therefore there is no observed risk. Many students indicate that they “think about changing”, however when faced with the decisions to eat out or on the go, the pressure to go and be with their peers prevails.

Purpose: Low consumption of fruits and vegetables is often associated with poor diet quality, and childhood obesity. The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility, and conduct a formative evaluation, of Healthy Heroes, an innovative, social cognitive theory-based program that uses child created photo-comic books to promote fruit and vegetable consumption.

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

Hall, Chai, and Albrecht (2016) in their article: “Relationships between nutrition-related knowledge, self-efficacy, and behavior for fifth grade students attending Title I and non-Title I schools,” demonstrated that the socioeconomic status (SES) is a major factors affecting childhood obesity. Hal et al. reported that children of low SES are at higher risk to be overweight or obese. The authors used the SCT to determine the relationships between knowledge and / or self-efficacy with the behavior among a sample of 193 fifth grade students, whose age ranged between 9-12 years. Fifty-eight of these students

Because behaviorism and social cognitive theory both examine changes in behavior. Social cognitive theory has its historical roots in behaviorism, but, as the name implies, it has evolved over the years into a more cognitive perspective (Kim & Baylor, 2006). Even today, many authors continue to include aspects of social cognitive theory in books focusing on behavioral principles (Baldwin & Baldwin, 2001). In addition, behaviorism and social cognitive theory are similar in three ways: They focus on experience as an important cause of learning (and an important principle of cognitive theory is that learning and development depend on learners’ experience). They include the concepts of reinforcement and punishment in their explanations of learning. They target feedback as an important aspect of the learning process. Three important differences exist between the two, however. First, they define learning differently, and second, social cognitive theory emphasizes the role of cognitive processes beliefs, perceptions, and expectations in learning. Third, social cognitive theory suggests that the environment, personal factors, and behavior are interdependent, a concept called reciprocal causation.