Plans Not Needed if You Have High and Stable Self-Efficacy: Planning Intervention and Snack Intake in the Context of Self-Efficacy Trajectories

• Authors: Alicja Bukowska-Durawa , Catherine Haynes , Aleksandra Luszczynska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Forming action plans is expected to move people from intention to action. We hypothesized that the effects of planning interventions may depend on changes in self-efficacy beliefs. Participants (182 nurses and midwifes, 89% women, aged 19-50) were assigned to the control or the planning intervention (three planning sessions) groups and reported their self-efficacy, sweet and salty snack intake at the baseline and four months later. The results suggest that an increase of efficacy beliefs over time augmented the effects of the planning intervention and resulted in the lowest snack intake (the enhancing effect of self-efficacy). Planning intervention also prompted lower unhealthy snacking if efficacy beliefs were decreasing (the protective effect of planning). Those who have stable-high self-efficacy were able to achieve low snack intake regardless of the group assignment (the buffering effect of self-efficacy).

Keywords

EN

Self-Efficacy; Intentions; Implementation Intention; Snacking; Nurses

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 91-97

Contributors

author

Alicja Bukowska-Durawa

• Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland

author

Catherine Haynes

• Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, England

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Aleksandra Luszczynska

• University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA
• Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10059-010-0012-4