Abstract
Behavior maintenance is crucial to sustaining one's health, yet researchers consistently find that individuals have difficulty sustaining health behavior over time. This entry outlines the importance of maintaining health behaviors over time, describes the challenges associated with operationalizing maintenance, considers how maintenance is operationalized in models of health behavior, and identifies several factors that contribute to the maintenance of health behavior change. Finally, a brief overview is provided regarding current trends and future directions of research on behavior maintenance as well as interventions targeting behavior maintenance.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | The Wiley Encyclopedia of Health Psychology |
| Subtitle of host publication | Biological Bases of Health Behavior: Volume 1, The Social Bases of Health Behavior: Volume 2, Clinical Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine: Volume 3, Special Issues in Health Psychology: Volume 4 |
| Publisher | Wiley |
| Pages | V2:203-V2:209 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781119057840 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781119057833 |
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| State | Published - Jan 1 2020 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- behavior maintenance
- health behavior change
- models of behavior change
- regulatory focus theory
- satisfaction
- self-determination theory