Table 1 Relationships between the TDF and COM-B (adapted from Tables 2 and 3 in Cane et al.) [6]
COM-B components | TDF domain definitions |
|---|---|
Capability: Psychological | Knowledge: An awareness of the existence of something |
Behavioural Regulation: Anything aimed at managing or changing objectively observed or measured actions | |
Capability: Psychological and physical | Skills: An ability or proficiency acquired through practice |
Capability: Physical | Memory, Attention and Decision Processes: The ability to retain information, focus selectively on aspects of the environment and choose between two or more alternatives |
Opportunity: Physical | 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 |
Opportunity: Social | Social influences: Those interpersonal processes that can cause individuals to change their thoughts, feelings or behaviours |
Motivation: Reflective | Beliefs about Consequences: Acceptance of the truth, reality or validity about outcomes of a behaviour in a given situation |
Beliefs about Capabilities: Acceptance of the truth, reality or validity about an ability, talent or facility that a person can put to constructive use | |
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 | |
Motivation: Reflective and automatic | 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 | |
Motivation: Automatic | 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 |