{"id":14,"date":"2013-03-14T17:25:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T17:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/template-beginner\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2020-08-19T15:53:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T22:53:03","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mpac\/","title":{"rendered":"The Multi-Process Action Control Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">The Multi-Process Action Control Framework<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The multi-process action control framework (M-PAC) was created as a practical approach to physical activity behaviour promotion based on theoretical and empirical evidence from several decades of related research.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mpac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3020\/2019\/07\/Pyramid-3Rs.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-707 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mpac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3020\/2019\/07\/Pyramid-3Rs-620x256.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"738\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mpac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3020\/2019\/07\/Pyramid-3Rs-620x256.png 620w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mpac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3020\/2019\/07\/Pyramid-3Rs-768x317.png 768w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mpac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3020\/2019\/07\/Pyramid-3Rs-1000x412.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 738px) 100vw, 738px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">General Brief Description of the M-PAC Framework<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">M-PAC is a unique behaviour change model in that it is a layered approach that incorporates intention formation and translation, adoption and maintenance and dual processes of motivation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>M-PAC is comprised of three layers of processing that work together to enable behaviour change:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The foundational <strong>Decide<\/strong> layer is grounded in reflective processes where a person is motivated by consciously deliberated and expected consequences of performing the behaviour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The <strong>Endeavour<\/strong> layer is grounded in regulatory processes where the behaviour is managed through tactics to translate intentions into behaviour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The <strong>Sustain<\/strong> layer represents the pinnacle of behaviour change and is grounded in reflexive process where the behaviour is maintained through learned associations and triggered through particular circumstances and stimuli over time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Taken together, M-PAC suggests that a pattern of physical activity is the product of reflective, regulatory, and reflexive processes that have facilitated an initial intention into successful on-going behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Multi-Process Action Control Framework &nbsp; The multi-process action control framework (M-PAC) was created as a practical approach to physical activity behaviour promotion based on theoretical and empirical evidence from several decades of related research. General Brief Description of the M-PAC Framework &nbsp; M-PAC is a unique behaviour change model in that it is a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mpac\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Multi-Process Action Control Approach&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1101,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mpac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mpac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mpac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mpac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mpac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mpac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":773,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mpac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/mpac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}