The compendium of self-enactable techniques to change and self-manage motivation and behaviour v.1.0

Keegan Knittle, Matti Heino, Marta M. Marques, Minna Stenius, Marguerite Beattie, Franziska Ehbrecht, Martin S. Hagger, Wendy Hardeman and Nelli Hankonen ()
Additional contact information
Keegan Knittle: University of Helsinki
Matti Heino: University of Helsinki
Marta M. Marques: Trinity College Dublin
Minna Stenius: Tampere University
Marguerite Beattie: University of Helsinki
Franziska Ehbrecht: Maastricht University
Martin S. Hagger: University of California, Merced
Wendy Hardeman: University of East Anglia
Nelli Hankonen: University of Helsinki

Nature Human Behaviour, 2020, vol. 4, issue 2, 215-223

Abstract: Abstract Behaviour change techniques describe the content of behaviour change interventions, but do not adequately account for the actions that people must themselves undertake to successfully change or self-manage motivation or behaviour. This paper describes the development of a compendium of self-enactable techniques, combining behaviour- and motivation-regulation techniques across six existing classifications of behaviour change techniques and three scoping reviews. The compendium includes 123 techniques, each of which is labelled, defined and presented with instructive examples to facilitate self-enactment. Qualitative feedback was gathered from intervention developers and the general public to improve the utility, congruence and ease of self-enactability of the techniques. This integrative index of self-enactable techniques can assist intervention developers in selecting appropriate self-directed techniques to help people self-manage their motivation and behaviour. Future research with this compendium can expand on the number of behaviours covered by the instructive examples and link techniques with their potential impacts on factors that influence behaviours.

Date: 2020
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0798-9 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nathum:v:4:y:2020:i:2:d:10.1038_s41562-019-0798-9

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/nathumbehav/

DOI: 10.1038/s41562-019-0798-9

Access Statistics for this article

Nature Human Behaviour is currently edited by Stavroula Kousta

More articles in Nature Human Behaviour from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().