COM-B | Â | TDF domain | Definition |
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Capability | Psychological | Knowledge | An awareness of the existence of something. |
Skills: cognitive and interpersonal | An ability or proficiency acquired through practice. | ||
Memory, attention and decision processes | The ability to retain information, focus selectively on aspects of the environment and choose between two or more alternatives. | ||
Behavioural regulation | Anything aimed at managing or changing objectively observed or measured actions. | ||
Physical | Skills: physical | An ability or proficiency acquired through practice. | |
Opportunity | Social | Social influences | Those interpersonal processes that can cause individuals to change their thoughts, feelings or behaviours. |
Physical | Environmental context and resources | Any circumstance of a person’s situation or environment that discourages or encourages the development of skills and abilities, independence, social competence and adaptive behaviour. | |
Motivation | Reflective | Social/professional role and identity | A coherent set of behaviours and displayed personal qualities of an individual in a social or work setting. |
Beliefs about capabilities | Acceptance of the truth, reality or validity about an ability, talent or facility that a person can put to constructive use. | ||
Optimism | The confidence that things will happen for the best or that desired goals will be attained. | ||
Intentions | A conscious decision to perform a behaviour or a resolve to act in a certain way. | ||
Goals | Mental representations of outcomes or end states that an individual wants to achieve. | ||
Beliefs about consequences | Acceptance of the truth, reality, or validity about outcomes of a behaviour in a given situation. | ||
Automatic | Reinforcement | Increasing the probability of a response by arranging a dependent relationship, or contingency, between the response and a given stimulus. | |
Emotion | A complex reaction pattern, involving experiential, behavioural, and physiological elements, by which the individual attempts to deal with a personally significant matter or event. |