behavioural opportunity

An <environmental disposition> that is required for or facilitates a behaviour.

Characteristics of a person's environment that are needed for a behaviour or to facilitate it.

The phrase ‘required for’ is used in the definition to specify that 'behavioural opportunity' is a necessary condition for behaviour to occur. Although other MoAs will help bring behaviour about, there has to be a 'behavioural opportunity' for behaviour to occur. The term 'facilitates' is used to specify that 'behavioural opportunity' will make the behaviour easier. Higher behavioural opportunity will increase the likelihood of behaviour across situations and people. The class 'environmental system' relates to what is found in the physical and social environment (e.g., how many streets are there for you to walk on), while the class 'behavioural opportunity' is about the features of the environment and how they interact with the person (e.g., whether an environment enables a person to take walks).

"Objective usability" in the Technology Acceptance Model; "Environmental characterstics" in the Health Behaviour Goal Model; "Situational forces" in the Action Theory Model of Consumption; "Environmental factors" in the Integrated Theoretical Model for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Prevention; "Opportunities" in the Needs-Opportunity-Abilities Model; "Disturbance" in the Control Theory; "Opportunity" in the Motivation-Opportunities-Abilities; "Contextual influences" in the Social Action Theory (Ewart); "Affordances/Perceived environmental factors" in the Social Ecological Model of Walking; "Opportunities for involvement (prosocial / antisocial)" in the Social Development Model; "Availabilty / accessibilty of necessary services" in the Six-staged model of communication effects; "Opportunity" in the COM-B; "Behavioural pre-potency" in the Temporal Self-Regulation Theory; "Local and external investment" in the Social Ecological Model of Behaviour Change; "Development / education" in the Needs-Opportunity-Abilities Model; "Accessibility" in the Social Ecological Model of Walking; "Context" in the CEOS Theory; "Facilitating conditions" in the Theory of Interpersonal Behavior; "External regulation" in the Self-Determination Theory

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