Motivation

2023-02-012025-11-04Motivation, Planning, Stress and Coping

Staying well at work by job crafting

by Janne Kaltiainen and Jari Hakanen, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland What parts of my work do I find motivating, engaging and most beneficial for my well-being? What can I do to get more of these things in my […]

2022-06-012025-11-04Behavioural theory, E-health, Habit, Motivation

Linking the Elephant to the Rider: The Role of Motivation

By António Labisa Palmeira, CIDEFES – Universidade Lusófona, Portugal; ISBNPA Executive Director Long-term motivation for health-related behaviors can come from different sources. Behavioral scientists are still trying to work out how these sources fit together. For example, I go running […]

2020-08-252025-11-04Habit, Motivation, Self-regulation

How to maintain health behaviours long term?

By Dominika Kwasnicka, SWPS University, Poland and University of Melbourne, Australia The ultimate goal of health promotion programmes is to promote long-lasting change and health care professionals can play a role and help patients to improve their health outcomes and […]

2020-02-042025-11-04Communication, Motivation, Self-regulation

Are your clients being defensive? If so, self-affirmation may help.

Peter Harris and Ian Hadden, The Self-Affirmation Research Group, School of Psychology, University of Sussex, UK Have you ever been reluctant to face up to something you’d rather ignore? Maybe your fondness for something bad for you that you eat […]

2019-12-162025-11-04Mental Imagery, Motivation

Becoming your better self as reason for changing behavior

By Winifred Gebhardt, Leiden University, The Netherlands About nine years ago, I became a vegetarian overnight. In a novel I was reading, the main character explained how he could not eat anything “in which at some time a heart had […]

2019-10-072025-11-04Goal setting, Motivation, Self-regulation

Fizinis aktyvumas vyresniame amžiuje: kada jau gana?

By Anne Tiedemann, The University of Sydney, Australia „Aktyvumo trūkumas sunaikina kiekvieno žmogaus gerą būklę, o judėjimas ir metodiniai fiziniai pratimai ją saugo ir išlaiko“… Platonas, 400 m. pr. kr. Jau seniai žinoma, kad reguliarūs fizinio aktyvumo įpročiai yra svarbūs […]

2019-07-162025-11-04Motivation, Self-regulation

Saviveiksmingumas: tikėjimas, kad žmonės gali pakeisti savo gyvenimo būdą

By Ralf Schwarzer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany and SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland Elgesio keitimas dažnai gali būti pageidautinas, tačiau sudėtingas veiksmas. Pavyzdžiui, norėdami mesti rūkyti, sveikai maitintis ar laikytis fizinio krūvio tvarkaraščio turite sutelkti motyvaciją, pastangas […]

2019-01-142025-11-04Goal setting, Motivation, Self-regulation

By Keegan Knittle, University of Helsinki, Finland Įprasta istorija pirminėje sveikatos priežiūroje: asmuo, kuriam akivaizdžiai padėtų daugiau fizinės veiklos, atvyksta į kliniką. Mes aptariame jų fizinę (ne) veiklą, o galiausiai žmogus sako, kad jie tiesiog nėra motyvuoti keistis. Ką gydytojas […]

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