Determinants of behaviour and their efficacy as targets of behavioural change interventions.

ABSTRACT: Unprecedented social, environmental, political and economic challenges - such as pandemics and epidemics, environmental degradation and community violence - require taking stock of how to promote behaviours that benefit individuals and society at large. In this Review, we synthesize multidisciplinary meta-analyses of the individual and social-structural determinants of behaviour (for example, beliefs and norms, respectively) and the efficacy of behavioural change interventions that target them. We find that, across domains, interventions designed to change individual determinants can be ordered by increasing impact as those targeting knowledge, general skills, general attitudes, beliefs, emotions, behavioural skills, behavioural attitudes and habits. Interventions designed to change social

SUBMITTER: Albarracin D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12407158 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature