The inclusion of habits in the stage model of self-regulated behavior change: an investigation of life events and red meat consumption in the UK.

ABSTRACT: A shift to a diet with low or no red meat is considered necessary to end the environmental and health impacts caused by the current overconsumption of red meat. The self-regulated behavior change stage model (SSBC) proposes that people who intend to change their behavior progress through a series of discrete cognitive stages until, ultimately, they engage in the new behavior. However, what the consequences of habitual behaviors are for the initiation and progression through the stages of change have not yet been fully elucidated or investigated. We hypothesized that habitual behaviors that are antagonistic toward an alternative behavior will inhibit the initiation and progression through the stages of change. Furthermore, in line with the habit discontinuity hypothesis, we hypothesized tha

SUBMITTER: Whittle C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11578820 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature