Capability |
Knowledge |
An awareness of the existence of something. |
Skills |
An ability or proficiency acquired through practice. |
Beliefs about capabilities |
Acceptance of the truth, reality, or validity about outcomes of a behaviour in a given situation. |
Behavioural regulation |
Anything aimed at managing or changing objectively observed or measured actions. |
Memory, attention, & decision processes |
The ability to retain information, focus selectively on aspects of the environment and choose between two or more alternatives. |
Opportunity |
Social influences |
Those interpersonal processes that can cause individuals to change their thoughts, feelings, or behaviours. |
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 |
Social/professional role and identity |
A coherent set of behaviours and displayed personal qualities of an individual in a social or work setting. |
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 an ability, talent or facility that a person can put to constructive use. |
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. |