ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the beliefs that were elicited by questions designed to prompt instrumental outcomes and affective outcomes. It explores whether differences in elicited beliefs result in different final sets of modal salient beliefs. The chapter examines the beliefs elicited by questions designed to prompt salient barriers and facilitators, and compare these with the instrumental and affective beliefs. The theory of reasoned action and its extension, the theory of planned behavior have been used to predict and explain a wide range of behaviors in terms of a limited set of constructs. The beliefs were elicited in a pilot study designed to guide the development of a quantitative theory of planned behavior questionnaire for use in a randomised controlled trial of an intervention to increase physical activity among people at increased risk of diabetes. The open-ended questions were included at the beginning of a self-completion questionnaire entitled "Attitudes to Physical Activity.".
