physical behavioural opportunity

ID
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BCIO:006089

Curation status
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Published
Created
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1 Dec '21

Modified
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4 Feb '25

Parents
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Definition
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A <behavioural opportunity> that involves time and parts of the environmental system that do not involve people or organisations.

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Informal definition
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Characteristics of a person's physical (rather than social) environment that are needed for a behaviour or to facilitate it.

Comment
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A 'behavioural opportunity' is a feature of the environmental system. While the class 'environmental system' is about what is found in an environment, the behavioural opportunity is a feature of the environment which interacts with the person and enables or prevents a behaviour.

Examples
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"Physical Opportunity" in the COM-B; "Physical availability" in the Integrated Theory of Drinking Behaviour

Fuzzy set
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No

BCIO lower level ontology
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