Using meta-analytic path analysis to test theoretical predictions in health behavior: An illustration based on meta-analyses of the theory of planned behavior

Hagger, Martin S.; Chan, Derwin King Chung; Protogerou, Cleo; Chatzisarantis, Nikos L. D.

doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2016.05.020

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“…The attenuating effects of past behaviour and habit on effects of these constructs have been consistently observed in previous research applying social cognitive theories (for a meta-analyses, see Hagger, Chan, Protogerou, & Chatzisarantis, 2016;Hagger, Polet, & Lintunen, 2018). The attenuating effects of past behaviour and habit on effects of these constructs have been consistently observed in previous research applying social cognitive theories (for a meta-analyses, see Hagger, Chan, Protogerou, & Chatzisarantis, 2016;Hagger, Polet, & Lintunen, 2018).…”

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Reasoned and implicit processes in heavy episodic drinking: An integrated dual‐process model

Hamilton

Gibbs

Keech

et al. 2019

British J Health Psychol

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Objectives. University students commonly engage in heavy episodic drinking (HED), which contributes to injury risk, deleterious educational outcomes, and economic costs. Identification of the determinants of this risky behaviour may provide formative evidence on which to base effective interventions to curb HED in this population. Drawing from theories of social cognition and dual-process models, this study tested key hypotheses relating to reasoned and implicit pathways to action for HED in a sample of Australian university students who drink alcohol. Design.A two-wave correlational design was adopted.Methods. Students (N = 204) completed self-reported constructs from social cognition theories with respect to HED at an initial time point (T1): attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioural control, intentions, habit, past behaviour, and implicit alcohol identity. Four weeks later (T2), students self-reported their HED behaviour and habit.Results. An initial path model indicated attitude and subjective norm predicted intentions, and intentions and implicit alcohol identity predicted HED. Inclusion of past behaviour and habit revealed direct effects of these on HED. Effects of T1 habit on HED were indirect through T2 habit, and there were indirect effects of past behaviour on HED through habit at both time points and the social cognition constructs. Direct effects of intentions and implicit alcohol identity, and indirect effects of attitude and subjective norm, on HED, were attenuated by the inclusion of past behaviour and habit.Conclusion. Results indicate that university students' HED tends to be governed by non-conscious, automatic processes than conscious, intentional processes.

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Reasoned and implicit processes in heavy episodic drinking: An integrated dual‐process model

Hamilton

Gibbs

Keech

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British J Health Psychol

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“…Had these effects been nullified by the inclusion of past behavior, it would have rendered the model insufficient as a description of the antecedents of moral attitudes in sport, and of antisocial behavior. These findings are quite relevant given that prior research (e.g., Ajzen, ; Conner et al, ; Hagger et al, ; Hagger et al, ; Ouellette & Wood, ; Sutton, ) has demonstrated attenuating effects of past behavior on the effects in theories of social cognition and motivation, including models and predictions from self‐determination theory (Hagger & Chatzisarantis, , ), in the prediction of prospective behavior in multiple contexts. Current findings suggest that the psychological factors and processes proposed by self‐determination theory and theories of antisocial behavior in sport have predictive validity in determining behavior‐related transgressive outcomes.…”

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“…An important consideration when evaluating the effectiveness of social cognitive and motivational theories in explaining behavioral outcomes is the extent to which the predictions hold when controlling for past behavior. There is a considerable body of research that has demonstrated attenuation or even extinction of effects in tests of social psychological models once a measure of past behavior has been included alongside the theory predictors (Ajzen, 2002;Conner, Warren, Close, & Sparks, 1999;Hagger, Chan, Protogerou, & Chatzisarantis, 2016;Hagger, Polet, & Lintunen, 2018;Ouellette & Wood, 1998;Sutton, 1994). Past behavior, often conceptualized as the frequency with which an individual has engaged in the behavior of interest in the past, tends to model the effects of unmeasured variables in the model that explain the consistency or stability of the behavior over time (Hagger et al, 2018;Ouellette & Wood, 1998).…”

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“…Importantly, theorists have indicated that inclusion of past behavior in social cognitive and motivational theories provides an important test of the sufficiency of the theories in explaining behavior. If the effects of social cognitive and motivational variables on behavior were extinguished or rendered trivial by the inclusion of past behavior, then the model would be rendered insufficient as an explanation of behavior (Hagger et al, ; Hagger & Chatzisarantis, ). Such findings also mean that any intervention or manipulation to change the theory variables will have no effect on behavior.…”

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Predicting moral attitudes and antisocial behavior in young team sport athletes: A self‐determination theory perspective

Mallia

Lucidi

Zelli

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J Applied Social Pyschol

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Identifying the factors associated with prosocial and antisocial behaviors in youth sport may provide evidence to inform interventions aimed at promoting prosocial behaviors and minimizing rule transgressions in young athletes. We investigated relations among social‐contextual factors (e.g., social support), personal motivational factors (e.g., psychological need satisfaction and motivation), young athletes’ attitudes toward prosocial (e.g., keeping winning in proportion) and antisocial (e.g., acceptance of cheating and gamesmanship) behaviors, and their actual rule violations during matches in two samples of athletes. Participants in Sample 1 were young team sport athletes (N = 355) and participants in Sample 2 were young male futsal players (N = 296). Athletes in Sample 1 completed validated self‐report measures of perceived autonomy support, basic need satisfaction, and autonomous and controlled motivation from self‐determination theory, moral attitudes, and past cheating behaviors. Athletes in Sample 2 completed identical measures and two additional behavioral measures: athletes’ self‐reported number of yellow cards received during competition in the last 6 months and the number of yellow cards athletes received from referees in the subsequent 2 months from competition records. We found significant relations between psychological need satisfaction and self‐determined motivation, and athletes’ moral attitudes in both samples. These effects held when statistically controlling for past behavior. Importantly, our prospective analysis of Sample 2 indicated that attitudes toward antisocial behaviors predicted athletes’ rule violations during subsequent tournament matches. Findings indicate that promoting autonomous motivation and need satisfaction through autonomy support may foster attitudes toward prosocial behaviors, and minimize rule transgressions, in young athletes.

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“…Structural equation modeling similarly allows assessment of mechanisms and causal pathways while also permitting inclusion of latent constructs and correlated measurement error (64). For instance, Hagger et al (46) used metaanalytic path analysis to examine the nomological validity of the theory of planned behavior for predicting alcohol consumption and dietary behaviors-specifically, examining the roles of past behavior, attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control as they relate to behavioral intentions and actual behavior. Through path analysis approaches, the authors modeled the processes by which these theoretical constructs were associated with patient behavior and tested for mechanisms and pathways of effects using mediation analysis.…”

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Meta-Analysis of Complex Interventions

Tanner‐Smith

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2024

Annual Review of Public Health

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Meta-analysis is a prominent method for estimating the effects of public health interventions, yet these interventions are often complex in ways that pose challenges to using conventional meta-analytic methods. This article discusses meta-analytic techniques that can be used in research syntheses on the effects of complex public health interventions. We first introduce the use of complexity frameworks to conceptualize public health interventions. We then present a menu of meta-analytic procedures for addressing various sources of complexity when answering questions about the effects of public health interventions in research syntheses. We conclude with a review of important practices and key resources for conducting meta-analyses on complex interventions, as well as future directions for research synthesis more generally. Overall, we argue that it is possible to conduct meaningful quantitative syntheses of research on the effects of public health interventions, though these meta-analyses may require the use of advanced techniques to properly consider and attend to issues of complexity.

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Using meta-analytic path analysis to test theoretical predictions in health behavior: An illustration based on meta-analyses of the theory of planned behavior

Cited by 208 publications

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Reasoned and implicit processes in heavy episodic drinking: An integrated dual‐process model

Reasoned and implicit processes in heavy episodic drinking: An integrated dual‐process model

Predicting moral attitudes and antisocial behavior in young team sport athletes: A self‐determination theory perspective

Meta-Analysis of Complex Interventions

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