IC-Behavior: An interdisciplinary taxonomy of behaviors.

ABSTRACT: Academic disciplines are often organized according to the behaviors they examine. While most research on a behavior tends to exist within one discipline, some behaviors are examined by multiple disciplines. Better understanding of behaviors and their relationships should enable knowledge transfer across disciplines and theories, thereby dramatically improving the behavioral knowledge base. We propose a taxonomy built on the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF), but design the taxonomy as a stand-alone extension rather than an improvement to ICF. Behaviors considered important enough to serve as the dependent variable in articles accepted for publication in top journals were extracted from nine different behavioral and social

SUBMITTER: Larsen KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8448352 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature