HPP301 Week Six Slides

8/3/2019 HPP301 Week Six Slides

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Contemporary Issues in Health

and Exercise

HPP301

Week Six


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Learning Outcomes

Recap on amotivation

Facilitating motivation and behaviour change

External regulation Applied example of facilitating motivation

Presentation assignments


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Amotivation

Little or no motivation to attempt the behaviour

Relative absence of motivation where a lack ofcontingency between actions and outcomes isperceived and reasons for continuing involvement

cannot be found May be the results of feelings of inadequacy

Four proposed factors (Shen et al) Ability

Environment

Strategy

Effort


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Continuum of Motivation


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External Regulation

Bottom of the pile of motivational regulations

Highly extrinsically controlled

Dependent on external influence for action

So it is a bad thing?

Some motivation is better than none

Move from amotivation to externally motivated

Crossing the threshold of motivation

Ill exercise if I really have to


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External Regulation

Behaviour controlled by rewards or threats

Coercion and manipulation

Examples from exercise and health?

Group task In pairs

How many clients/client groups are amotivated or externallyregulated in health, exercise, fitness or sport?

Exercise referral

Cardiac rehabilitation classes Smoking cessation classes

Weight loss programmes

Children (sport as crche)


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Group Task

In pairs

Come up with a list of every possible external

regulation

Anything goes

Try to mine down into the concepts

E.g. rewards

Avoid introjected concepts E.g. guilt, shame


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External Tools

Rewards (bonuses)

Threats (implicit or explicit)

Token economies (star charts) Targets (goals?)

Wages or opportunity cost


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Rewards

So should we reward at all?

If so how?

Next task

Develop the list into appropriate and

inappropriate reward examples

Who are these appropriate for?

Why are they appropriate?


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Managing Rewards

First question

What is the reward for?

Work through your list and name the specific target for

each selected reward

Who sets the target?

Second question

What is the perceived outcome? Who sets the criteria for success?

Is success achievable?


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Goal Setting Task

Strong links with goal setting skills SMARTER

Outcome, performance, process

Consider something about your lie that youwould like to change Ideally exercise related

Explain this to a partner

Set an outcome, performance and process goal foreach other

Agree on the initial step

Agree on the reward regime


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Summary

Rewards can be

Appropriate

Motivating

But external rewards are

Short-lived

Subject to diminishing returns

Undermining to autonomy

Inhibitory to intrinsic motivation

Damaging to feelings of incompetence


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Presentation Assignment

Preparation

Let me know the target group

Construct an intervention to improve the exercise

participation, physical activity, nutrition or health-related outcome for that group

Ensure that your interventions are based on theory

Marking criteria

Use of theory Presentation skills

Intervention viability

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HPP301 Week Six Slides