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Predisposing factors
Preexisting factors such as heredity, gender, beliefs, attitudes, values, and knowledge that influence health behavior.
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Enabling Factors
Factors that make it possible or easier for an individual to change a health behavior.
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Reinforcing Factors
Factors such as rewards that follow a behavior and either increase or decrease the likelihood of repeating the behavior.
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Motivation
An energized state that directs and sustains behavior.
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Internal locus of control
Belief that the source of power or control in one’s life resides in oneself—in one’s own hard work, attributes, actions, and choices.
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External locus of control
Belief that the source of power or control in one’s life resides outside oneself—in chance, fate, and the actions of others.
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Self-efficacy
Belief in one’s capability to perform a task that leads to a specific outcome.
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