Health-Related Motivation

Studies in this area of research seek to understand the determinants of motivation to initiate and maintain health-related behaviours. Much of the research in this area is concerned with developing and applying theoretical models.

Research in this area includes:

• Factors influencing motivation to initiate and maintain:
  • dietary self-care in type 2 diabetes
  • sexual health behaviours and STI screening
  • uptake of immunisation
  • harm reduction initiatives for injecting behaviour and anabolic steroid use
  • Impicit and explicit attitudes towards exercise
  • Exercise motivations relating to gender, perceived occupational support, and body image
  • Adaptive behaviours following failure/relapse
  • Appearance-related motivations for smoking  
• Factors influencing importance and confidence in addressing health behaviour change (i.e. smoking, alcohol intake, diet, exercise) and overall readiness to change.

Researchers working in this area are:

• Dr. Emily Buckley  
• Dr. Mark Forshaw
• Professor. Sarah Grogan
• Dr Helen Lee 
• Dr. Rachel Povey
• Dr Clio Spanou