Description
- Self-modification project designed to change a health behavior (over eating) Develop a plan to self-modify/change a health behavior you currently have. State the behavior you wish to change and state your short-term and long-term goals. Discuss under what conditions are you most and least likely to engage in the behavior you wish to change. What situational and personal factors tend to increase/decrease the behaviors? What are the barriers to and facilitators of behavior change? Also, describe the strategies you used to self- modify/change the behavior. In your paper, review the background literature you used to develop your program, describe the program you used, and discuss the degree of effectiveness of the program for you. In addition, specify the factors that you believe contributed to your program's effectiveness or ineffectiveness and those that might have made the program more effective. Conduct an analysis of your behavior-change attempt, focusing on what worked and what did not (over 1 week) (you can make this data up) and report on the program and the behavior-change results. What would you do differently? Be specific throughout! Be sure to integrate specific course material into your paper.
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Reducing Electronic Device Use
During one week, I implemented a plan for no longer spending too much time on
electronic devices. My short-term goal was to spend at least one hour after work each day not
using the devices, and a long-term goal was to eventually incorporate several-hour breaks from
the telephone and computer into my daily routine. I hypothesized that I would be the most likely
to successfully change this behavior, if I was fully aware of the harm of spending too much time
on devices, and if my friends and family supported my program. In fact, earlier studies have
found that good and bad health behaviors are contagious (Thompson 2016). For example,
having someone in one’s surroundings, who is obese, increases one’s own chance of obesity
(Thompson 2016). On the other hand, living in an environment, where everyone exercises,
makes one more likely to exercise. Thus, I would be unlikely to succeed in my behavior change
program, if members of my household did not support my effort to organize out-of-house
activities and device-f...
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