Interpreting cross-sectional data on stages of change

By S. Sutton. 2000

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Mechanisms of health behavior change in persons with chronic illness or disability: the Health Action Process Approach (HAPA). (2011, methodology): “The assessment of stages should be measured without using a specific time frame, in accordance with Sutton (2000).”
Social psychology of exercise and sport (2005, background): “Furthermore, some have claimed that it is not a genuine stage model, but only a ‘pseudo-stage’ model because the boundaries of the stages are not distinct and cannot be discriminated empirically (Sutton 2000; Armitage and Arden 2002; Armitage et al. 2003).”
Does changing behavioral intentions engender behavior change? A meta-analysis of the experimental evidence. (2006, background): “Although behavioral intention is not an explicit component of the TTM, commentators have argued that the model implies that intention scores increase in a linear fashion across the first three stages of change at least (e.g., Godin, Lambert, Owen, Nolin, & Prud’homme, 2004; Sutton, 2000).”
Time for a change: putting the Transtheoretical (Stages of Change) Model to rest. (2005, background): “In a series of publications (Sutton 1996; 2000a, 2000b, 2001, 2005), I have critically examined the transtheoretical model (TTM) and its associated assessment instruments and evaluated the evidence for the model.”