Health-Related Constructs of the Adaptive Health Behavior Inventory (AHBI)
Abstract
The Adaptive Health Behavior Inventory (AHBI) is an inventory of adult response to health-related contexts reflecting embodied self-regulatory behavior motivated by self-interest. The utility of AHBI statements is their ability to stimulate and prime ingrained health related goal-directed actions, habits, and beliefs in response to health-related situational cues. A range of cognitive-behavior-adaptive dynamics including semantic processing, priming of automatic cognitive processes and social behavior, determination of cue relevance, variations in affective, and motivational intensity, the priming of goal-directed actions, habits, selective attention, and action semantics are argued to be emulated in the response patterns captured in the inventory. A detailed discussion of hypothesized cortical and sub-cortical involvement is offered.
The Adaptive Health Behavior Inventory (AHBI) is an inventory of adult response to health-related contexts reflecting embodied self-regulatory behavior motivated by self-interest. The utility of AHBI statements is their ability to stimulate and prime ingrained health related goal-directed actions, habits, and beliefs in response to health-related situational cues. A range of cognitive-behavior-adaptive dynamics including semantic processing, priming of automatic cognitive processes and social behavior, determination of cue relevance, variations in affective, and motivational intensity, the priming of goal-directed actions, habits, selective attention, and action semantics are argued to be emulated in the response patterns captured in the inventory. A detailed discussion of hypothesized cortical and sub-cortical involvement is offered.