The Development and Validation of the Health Behavior Motivation Scale.

ABSTRACT: The article presents the construction and validation process of the Health Behavior Motivation Scale (HBMS), which measures the motivation toward pro-health behaviors in population of healthy adults. The tool is conceptually based on Self-Determination Theory (SDT) and more precisely on one of its subtheories-Organismic Integration Theory (OIT). In the first stage of the construction, the linguistic validation with competent judges procedure allowed to eliminate the items which were not correctly formulated. Next, the psychometric properties of the HBMS were assessed in three studies. In Study 1 (N = 323, M _age = 31), the factorial structure of the HBMS was assessed with CFA. Since the preliminary structure was rejected, in order to identify the dimen

SUBMITTER: Poraj-Weder M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8446656 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature