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The theory of planned behavior and healthy eatingMark Conner
School of Psychology, University of Leeds, England
Health Psychol 21:194-201. 2002..Implications for understanding health cognitions in long-term performance of health behavior are discussed...- Role of anticipated regret, intentions and intention stability in adolescent smoking initiationMark Conner
School of Psychology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Br J Health Psychol 11:85-101. 2006..To examine the moderating role of anticipated regret and intention stability on the relationship between intentions and smoking initiation in adolescents... - Evaluating the quality of patient leaflets about renal replacement therapy across UK renal unitsAnna Winterbottom
Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds, UK
Nephrol Dial Transplant 22:2291-6. 2007..This research aims to audit the provision of patient information by renal units and charities and to assess the quality of written information about dialysis treatment options... - Conscientiousness and the intention-behavior relationship: predicting exercise behaviorMark Conner
Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
J Sport Exerc Psychol 29:518-33. 2007..The findings indicate a role for conscientiousness in understanding intention-behavior relationships when the context of behavior is changing or unknown... - Interaction effects in the theory of planned behaviour: studying cannabis useM Conner
School of Psychology, University of Leeds, UK
Br J Soc Psychol 38:195-222. 1999..PBC was found to moderate the impact of intentions on behaviour (p < .05). The findings are discussed in relation to how interaction effects further our understanding of the social processes by which variables are related in the TPB... - Temporal stability as a moderator of relationships in the Theory of Planned BehaviourM Conner
School of Psychology, University of Leeds, UK
Br J Soc Psychol 39:469-93. 2000.... - Why do women use dietary supplements? The use of the theory of planned behaviour to explore beliefs about their useM Conner
School of Psychology, University of Leeds, UK
Soc Sci Med 52:621-33. 2001..The findings of this study highlight the potential of the TPB in exploring supplement-taking behaviour, while throwing light on the factors influencing an individual's motivations to use dietary supplements... - Environmental influences: factors influencing a woman's decision to use dietary supplementsMark Conner
School of Psychology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
J Nutr 133:1978S-1982S. 2003..These findings highlight the potential of the theory of planned behavior in exploring supplement-taking behavior while throwing light on the factors influencing an individual's motivations to use dietary supplements... - Increasing daily fruit and vegetable consumption: what changes do cardiac patients make?C Jackson
School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
J Hum Nutr Diet 18:195-204. 2005..This prospective study explored (i) the changes in daily fruit and daily vegetable consumption of cardiac patients participating in an intervention study and (ii) how participants made these changes... - Diet and lifestyle characteristics associated with dietary supplement use in womenS F Kirk
Division of Public Health, Nuffield Institute for Health, The University of Leeds, UK
Public Health Nutr 2:69-73. 1999..To describe the characteristics of dietary supplement users in a large cohort of women and test the hypothesis that supplement users would be more likely to have a healthier lifestyle than non-users... - Bridging the intention-behaviour 'gap': the role of moral normGaston Godin
Universite Laval, Canada
Br J Soc Psychol 44:497-512. 2005..The findings suggest that the theory of planned behaviour should more clearly acknowledge the importance of internalized norms and self-expectations in the development of one's motivation to adopt a given behaviour... - The theory of planned behaviour and binge drinking: Assessing the moderating role of past behaviour within the theory of planned behaviourPaul Norman
Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, UK
Br J Health Psychol 11:55-70. 2006..The results are discussed in relation to the need to develop and test alternative measures of habit. The implications of the findings for interventions to encourage more appropriate drinking behaviour are outlined... - Beyond cognition: predicting health risk behaviors from instrumental and affective beliefsRebecca Lawton
Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Health Psychol 26:259-67. 2007..Two studies assessed the relative contribution of affective and instrumental beliefs to the prediction of 2 risk behaviors: driving above the speed limit and smoking... - Application of the theory of planned behaviour to the prediction of objectively assessed breaking of posted speed limitsMark Conner
Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds, UK
Br J Psychol 98:429-53. 2007..A total of 17% of the variance in speed as assessed on-road was accounted for with intentions and moral norms being significant. Practical implications of the findings for road safety are discussed... - Impact of daily mood, work hours, and iso-strain variables on self-reported health behaviorsFiona Jones
Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, England
J Appl Psychol 92:1731-40. 2007..Findings point to the limited impact of stable features of work design compared to the effects of daily work stressors on health behaviors... 
Effects of daily hassles and eating style on eating behaviorDaryl B O'Connor
Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, England
Health Psychol 27:S20-31. 2008..This study investigated the daily hassles-eating behavior relationship and its moderators in a naturalistic setting...- Intention-behavior relationship based on epidemiologic indices: an application to physical activityGaston Godin
Laval University, Quebec, Canada
Am J Health Promot 22:180-2. 2008..This article examines the usefulness of epidemiologic indices in furthering the understanding of the intention-behavior relationship in the field of physical activity... - Applying an extended version of the theory of planned behaviour to physical activityCath Jackson
School of Psychology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
J Sports Sci 21:119-33. 2003..Focusing on positive descriptive norms might benefit sedentary individuals. The significant role of past behaviour is less useful in directing interventions... 
Evidence, theory and context: using intervention mapping to develop a worksite physical activity interventionRosemary R C McEachan
Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
BMC Public Health 8:326. 2008..The current paper describes the development of a three month theory-based intervention that aims to increase levels of moderate intensity physical activity amongst employees in sedentary occupations...- Evidence that perceived behavioural control is a multidimensional construct: perceived control and perceived difficultyDavid Trafimow
Department of Psychology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces 88003 8001, USA
Br J Soc Psychol 41:101-21. 2002.... - Gender, sexuality, body image and eating behavioursMark Conner
School of Psychology, University of Leeds, UK
J Health Psychol 9:505-15. 2004..001). The findings support the role of socially prescribed body shapes on body shape concerns, eating motivations, and eating styles in men and women and suggest impacts are greater for heterosexual women and homosexual men... - Stages of change or changes of stage? Predicting transitions in transtheoretical model stages in relation to healthy food choiceChristopher J Armitage
Centre for Research in Social Attitudes, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, United Kingdom
J Consult Clin Psychol 72:491-9. 2004..However, given that this change of stage marks the transition between cognition and actual behavior, the identification of variables that bridge this gap is crucial for the development of interventions to promote stage transitions... - Commentary on Hobbis and SuttonMark Conner
Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
J Health Psychol 10:23-5; discussion 37-43. 2005..In relation to the second issue it is noted that CBT may well identify a number of useful techniques for changing beliefs, although a variety of other techniques may also be useful for changing beliefs... - The Transtheoretical Model and stages of change: a critique: observations by five commentators on the paper by Adams, J. and White, M. (2004) why don't stage-based activity promotion interventions work?Johannes Brug
Health Educ Res 20:244-58. 2005 - Beyond intention: do specific plans increase health behaviours in patients in primary care? A study of fruit and vegetable consumptionCath Jackson
School of Healthcare, Baines Wing, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Soc Sci Med 60:2383-91. 2005..Consumption was not improved by implementation intentions. These findings are discussed in the context of the targeted health behaviour and sample... - Moderating role of attitudinal ambivalence within the theory of planned behaviourMark Conner
School of Psychology, University of Leeds, UK
Br J Soc Psychol 42:75-94. 2003..These effects were confirmed in within-participants analyses. The findings are discussed in terms of the role of ambivalence in furthering our understanding of relationships in the TPB... - Asking questions changes behavior: mere measurement effects on frequency of blood donationGaston Godin
Faculty of Nursing, Laval University, Quebec, Canada
Health Psychol 27:179-84. 2008..This research examined the impact of completing a questionnaire about blood donation on subsequent donation behavior among a large sample of experienced blood donors... - Attentional biases for food stimuli in external eaters: possible mechanism for stress-induced eating?Emily Newman
School of Health in Social Science, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, UK
Appetite 51:339-42. 2008.... - Perceptions and reasons for choice of fat- and fibre-containing foods by Swedish schoolchildrenChristina Berg
Department of Home Economics, Goteborg University, Box 122 04, SE 402 42, Goteborg, Sweden
Appetite 40:61-7. 2003..In conclusion, the results suggest that taste may be a barrier to consumption of high-fibre products, while consumption of low-fat products appears to be impeded by health beliefs... - Determinants of repeated blood donation among new and experienced blood donorsGaston Godin
Canada Research Chair on Behavior and Health, Faculty of Nursing, Laval University, Quebec, Canada
Transfusion 47:1607-15. 2007..The aim of this study was to identify factors predicting repeated blood donation among experienced and new donors... - Daily hassles and eating behaviour: the role of cortisol reactivity statusEmily Newman
Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Psychoneuroendocrinology 32:125-32. 2007..This suggests that cortisol reactivity may in part account for the moderating role of eating style on stress-induced eating. The results are discussed within the context of future health risk... - Determinants of condom use among a random sample of single heterosexual adultsGaston Godin
Faculty of Nursing, Laval University, Quebec, Canada
Br J Health Psychol 10:85-100. 2005..The aim of this study was to identify the determinants of single heterosexuals' use of condoms during each sexual intercourse...