TY - JOUR
T1 - Fuzzy Cognitive Maps as a Tool for Identifying Cognitive Conflicts That Hinder the Adoption of Healthy Habits
AU - Saúl, Luis Angel
AU - Sanfeliciano, Alejandro
AU - Botella, Luis
AU - Perea, Rafael
AU - Gonzalez-Puerto, Jose Antonio
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain, grant number “Proyecto 2020-085-UNED-PROY”. The APC was funded by Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2022/2/1
Y1 - 2022/2/1
N2 - Implementing healthy lifestyle habits can take a great effort and sticking to such prescriptions is complicated. Failure rates amongst people seeking to adopt a healthier diet are estimated to be around 80%. Exploring the network of meanings that an individual associates with adopting habits such as healthy eating, maintaining the correct weight, and practising physical exercise can reveal the inconsistencies, obstacles, or psychological conflicts that hinder change and target-achievement. Fuzzy cognitive maps (FCM) can be of great utility in this task as they allow us to explore the structure of the personal meaning system of an individual as well as determine any obstacles and simulate hypothetical scenarios that project its future evolution. This can help to identify the foci of cognitive conflicts that hinder the adoption of healthy habits and establish more effective personalised intervention programmes that make it easier to maintain these habits.
AB - Implementing healthy lifestyle habits can take a great effort and sticking to such prescriptions is complicated. Failure rates amongst people seeking to adopt a healthier diet are estimated to be around 80%. Exploring the network of meanings that an individual associates with adopting habits such as healthy eating, maintaining the correct weight, and practising physical exercise can reveal the inconsistencies, obstacles, or psychological conflicts that hinder change and target-achievement. Fuzzy cognitive maps (FCM) can be of great utility in this task as they allow us to explore the structure of the personal meaning system of an individual as well as determine any obstacles and simulate hypothetical scenarios that project its future evolution. This can help to identify the foci of cognitive conflicts that hinder the adoption of healthy habits and establish more effective personalised intervention programmes that make it easier to maintain these habits.
KW - Adopting healthy behaviour
KW - Cognitive conflicts
KW - Constructivism
KW - Difficulties or barriers
KW - Fuzzy cognitive maps
KW - Health promotion
KW - Healthy habits
KW - Psychology of personal constructs
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U2 - 10.3390/ijerph19031411
DO - 10.3390/ijerph19031411
M3 - Article
C2 - 35162434
AN - SCOPUS:85123353369
SN - 1661-7827
VL - 19
JO - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
JF - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
IS - 3
M1 - 1411
ER -
