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DO YOU DRINK ALCOHOL - IF SO, HOW MUCH?

You find if you drink alcohol it is similar to smoking – it’s a habit. In moderation drinking isn’t bad for you like most things in life. But excessive drinking can cause physical, social, financial, mental issues arising from excessive consumption.

Drinking alcohol especially today with the new world wines and fruit flavoured spirits and ciders/beers can become additive without you realising. The reasons people drink vary from social to relieving stress and anxiety to feeling part of a crowd but all can lead to drink addiction and once our bodies get a taste for alcohol, like smoking it is hard to stop.

We show hard statistics about excessive drinking of alcohol, provide support and guidance on how to reduce or stop and give helpful support groups who can assist locally.

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Let’s take a look at some of the facts and what is safe and what are the consequences or impact on your health from excessive drinking.

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Here are some facts and stats  about drinking. GO!

Look at drinking habits by age group. GO!

What’s a safe amount to drink each week? GO!

A lot of people who know they drink too much don’t see themselves as alcoholics. GO!

See whether there are any benefits to drinking. GO!

See what the serious side effects are.  GO!

There are sociable and peer group reasons for drinking  GO!

If I want to cut down, what’s the best way to do it?  GO!

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Facts About Drinking Alcohol

admissions
1 ,000

to hospital in 2020 related to alcohol – up 22.5% from 2019

Have drunk alcohol
86.4%

According to the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 86.4 percent of adults reported having drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime.

deaths
1

related to alcohol-specific causes registered in the UK in 2020 – up 18.9%

Strong beer
6%

Strong beer at 6% abv has six units in one litre – if you drink half a litre (500ml), which is just under a pint, then you have had three units (BDA).

alcohol-related
1000

prescription items dispensed in England in 2020

Wine
14%

wine at 14% abv has 14 units in one litre – if you drink a quarter of a litre (250ml), two small glasses, then you have had three and a half units (BDA).

total net cost
£ 0.1 million

for items prescribed for alcohol dependence in 2019 in England

Over guidelines
24%

24% of adults in England and Scotland regularly drink over the Chief Medical Officer’s low-risk guidelines (AlcoholChangeUK).

drinking habits

Adult Drinking Habits in Great Britain

The Office for National Statistics released their paper: “Annual data on alcohol consumption by adults, including changes in drinking patterns in recent years and data for those who do not drink”. Some key points are shown below.

Young people aged 16 to 24 years in Great Britain are less likely to drink than any other age group; when they do drink, consumption on their heaviest drinking day tends to be higher than other ages.

YouDrive are concerned this may lead to binge drinking – see below.

Men are more likely to drink alcohol than women. 61.9% of men and 52.4% of women drank alcohol in the week prior to interview.

Looking at drinking habits by age, the highest consumption was found among those aged 45 to 64 years, with 64.6% saying they drank alcohol in the past week; the lowest was found among those aged 16 to 24 years, with 47.9% saying they drank alcohol in the past week.

The generally higher levels of binge drinking among those aged 16 to 24 years could be due to the data capturing those who tend to drink excessively on Friday or Saturday nights and then not much else during the rest of the week.

Data from other sources, which measure drinking habits on more than one day, show that the most harmful drinking tends to be among middle-aged drinkers, as these individuals are more likely to drink every day.

When looking at drinking habits by socio-economic status, in 2017, around 7 in 10 people (69.5%) who said they worked in managerial and professional occupations drank alcohol in the week before interview. In contrast, 51.2% (around one in two) of people working in routine and manual occupations said they drank.

Macmillan Cancer Support found each Briton spends around £787 a year on alcohol, with London’s concentration of drinkers spending sizably more. The research, conducted by Onepoll, surveyed 2,000 over-18s. Men spent an average of £934.44 per year, the data found, compared with women spending £678.60.30 Sep 2014.

So, what is a safe amount of alcohol to drink each week?

Check out the table below, which shows how the standard low risk guidelines can be made up.

A lot of people know they are drinking too much, but don’t see themselves as alcoholics.

A lot of people know they are drinking too much, but don’t see themselves as alcoholics. They would like to drink less but never really get round to it – there are just too many reasons to carry on as they are.

Especially when they see the draconian response involving complete abstinence and constant attendance of meetings at self-help groups – hair shirt not essential!

We like the approach taken in this book by David Allen. It breaks all the rules about treating alcoholism – it’s not just about the stereotypical alcoholic but the invisible majority, these people are the middle-class drinkers, they are in control of their lives with the significant exception that they know that their use of alcohol is excessive. These are the silent majority – the ‘Sophisticated Alcoholics’.

We like to think the book was written about one of the YouDrive principals!

It suggests the view that alcoholism is a disease is wrong, and depressing. It says that changing beliefs and perceptions is at the heart of tackling excessive and damaging drinking. This is fundamental to our approach – you have to want to change – this book says that you CAN change and you are not a slave to your genes or an incurable disease.

The editor is current NHS consultant psychiatrist Dr James Kustow. You can see the book on Amazon here. If you have any questions you’d like to ask the author or you just want to get in touch, use this email rather than the one in the book: so********************@gm***.com

Are there any medical benefits to drinking alcohol

According to the Mayo Institute there are naturally pros and cons of drinking. Here we detail some of the benefits from moderate alcohol intake. Any potential benefits of alcohol are relatively small and may not apply to all individuals. In fact, the latest dietary guidelines make it clear that no one should begin drinking alcohol or drink more often on the basis of potential health benefits. For many people, the possible benefits don't outweigh the risks and avoiding alcohol is the best course.

On the other hand, if you're a light to moderate drinker and you're healthy, you can probably continue to drink alcohol as long as you do so responsibly.

Defining moderate
Moderate alcohol use for healthy adults generally means up to one drink a day for women and up to two drinks a day for men.
Examples of one drink include:
Beer: 12 fluid ounces (355 milliliters)
Wine: 5 fluid ounces (148 milliliters)
Distilled spirits (80 proof): 1.5 fluid ounces (44 milliliters)

Moderate alcohol consumption may provide some health benefits, such as:
• Reducing your risk of developing and dying of heart disease
• Possibly reducing your risk of ischemic stroke (when the arteries to your brain become narrowed or blocked, causing severely reduced blood flow)
• Possibly reducing your risk of diabetes
• However, eating a healthy diet and being physically active have much greater health benefits and have been more extensively studied.

What are the serious side effects to excessive drinking?

Risks of heavy alcohol use
While moderate alcohol use may offer some health benefits, heavy drinking — including binge drinking — has no health benefits.

Heavy or high-risk drinking is defined as more than three drinks on any day or more than seven drinks a week for women and for men older than age 65, and more than four drinks on any day or more than 14 drinks a week for men age 65 and younger.

Binge drinking is defined as four or more drinks within two hours for women and five or more drinks within two hours for men.

The problem with drinking is it’s so sociable and part of people getting together

As you can see by the important statistics above, pregnant women drinking whilst pregnant especially the binge drinking shows that social outings, parties and get togethers are a common place in the UK and usually involve congregating in pubs and bars. The temptation even when you know you should refrain is hard to resist. So, alcohol is not only sociable but its moreish.

In the 90s the alcohol industry developed alcopops; fizzy drinks with alcohol added which revolutionised the industry. Up until then it was often about taste. You either liked beer or wine or spirits but the industry introduced fizzy drinks containing alcohol that were not only laced with sugar but you didn’t feel the alcohol, it just tasted like a fizzy drink. During the noughties alcopops seem to drop off but by 2010 mixer alcohol came back with flavoured spirits and wines.

I definitely drink too much, so I need to take steps to sort it myself I should try and get some help

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I'll reduce my drinking myself

We are not saying stop drinking, we are saying take control. Remember it’s your brain and the habit that is the problem if you have one. Control your habit!

Get help with your drinking

If you are a heavy drinker and have tried the self-help method and it’s failed don’t give up there are many organisations, clubs, helplines and mechanism that can help you reduce your intake.
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Alcohol and Anxiety

Alcohol and Anxiety

This is a Pint of Science talk by Maddy Prior from the University of Bristol. It looks at the link between anxiety and alcohol abuse.

"You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on."
Dean Martin
Singer

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Alcohol and You – 21 Ways to Control and Stop Drinking

How to Give Up Your Addiction and Quit Alcohol (Self Help) Paperback

“Alcohol and You” includes everything you need to self-diagnose alcohol problems and find the solution that is right for you.


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The Sophisticated Alcoholic

The book breaks all the rules about treating alcoholism.

It’s not just about the stereotypical alcoholic but for the invisible majority, the middle class drinkers, the people who are in control of their lives but with one significant exception that they have already concluded that their use of alcohol is excessive. These are the silent majority the ‘Sophisticated Alcoholics’.


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Easy Way to Control Alcohol

 Allen Carr – Paperback

Allen Carr established himself as the world’s leading authority on how to stop smoking and The Easy Way to Control Alcohol applies his revolutionary method to drinking. With startling insight into why we drink and clear step-by-step instructions, he shows yo the way to escape the “alcohol trap” in the time it takes to read this book.


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The 10-Day Alcohol Detox Plan

Stop Drinking Easily & Safely (Self Help Book 1) Kindle Edition

Do you want to take a break from alcohol easily and safely?

When you stop drinking, it takes up to 10 days for the alcohol to completely leave your system. It’s a tricky time. You get cravings and your thinking becomes emotional.


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The NHS have a section on alcohol support

Drinkaware specialise in drink related problems

DrinkCoach is a service providing coaching support and a free app to monitor your drinking

Stuff you might want on drinking

Now you’ve read about drinking you might want to make a bit of a statement.  Have a look at some stuff below we think has some humour value!  We may make pennies on commission, but that’s not the point really.  Click on the image to see more details.

Gym? I thought you said gin! – Need a drink not exercise T-Shirt

Available in many sizes and colours

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gym tee shirt

Everything Is Fine Just Drink Beer & Wine T-Shirt

Available in many sizes and colours

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beer tee shirt

Funny Party Quote Drinking Joke Gift May Contain Alcohol T-Shirt

Available in many sizes and colours

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alcohol tee shirt

Novelty Engraved/Printed HiBall Gin and Tonic Vodka Glass

to me Drinking Responsibly Means Not Spilling – Engraved

Beautiful Novelty Gift, Fantastic For Any Occasion!
An Ideal Gift For Any Occasion
Presented in a fantastic Gift Box

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drinking glass

All areas of health are interlinked

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Find your initial focus

You might think that physical, financial and mental health are quite separate, and for some people they are. However, often a problem in one area has a knock-on effect on others. Losing your job can lead to anxiety and depression, which can turn you to drink and impact your health.

You might have a severe issue in one area but that can lead to problems in other areas, and the people treating you for the first problem won’t be equipped to deal with these linked issues.

For example, doctors and nurses can treat you for a physical problem but can’t advise you about your job or finances.  Nor for the anxiety that comes with it, apart from prescribing some drugs, which might or might not be the best solution.

We encourage you to take a holistic view – we look at all areas and offer support across the whole spectrum.

health areas interlinked

Even this view of health is simplistic, as you’ll discover later if you go down that route.  You might want to consider overall health, or wellness or wellbeing, which include additional types of health, such as occupational health (how you are in your job).   Then there’s happiness and quality of life – how do these fit?

If you’re interested in that, click the link here to see more information.

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The 10-Day Alcohol Detox Plan

Stop Drinking Easily & Safely (Self Help Book 1) Kindle Edition

Do you want to take a break from alcohol easily and safely?

When you stop drinking, it takes up to 10 days for the alcohol to completely leave your system. It’s a tricky time. You get cravings and your thinking becomes emotional.

Go to Amazon

detox plan

Easy Way to Control Alcohol

 Allen Carr – Paperback

Allen Carr established himself as the world’s leading authority on how to stop smoking and The Easy Way to Control Alcohol applies his revolutionary method to drinking. With startling insight into why we drink and clear step-by-step instructions, he shows yo the way to escape the “alcohol trap” in the time it takes to read this book.

Go to Amazon

easy control alcohol

The Sophisticated Alcoholic

The book breaks all the rules about treating alcoholism.

It’s not just about the stereotypical alcoholic but for the invisible majority, the middle class drinkers, the people who are in control of their lives but with one significant exception that they have already concluded that their use of alcohol is excessive. These are the silent majority the ‘Sophisticated Alcoholics’.

Go to Amazon

sophisticated alcoholic

Alcohol and You – 21 Ways to Control and Stop Drinking

How to Give Up Your Addiction and Quit Alcohol (Self Help) Paperback

“Alcohol and You” includes everything you need to self-diagnose alcohol problems and find the solution that is right for you.

Go to Amazon

alcohol and you

Health Areas in Domains

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Domains

We break down the overall concept of health or wellness into ‘bite-sized chunks’ that we can actually do something about.  The first level we call health domains. 

We like the Life of Wellness site and we have chosen the following domains.

1. Emotional Wellness: Awareness and acceptance of feelings
2. Spiritual Wellness: A search for meaning and purpose
3. Intellectual Wellness: Recognition of your creativity, knowledge and skills
4. Physical Wellness: Need for physical activity and balanced nutrition
5. Environmental Wellness: Positive awareness and impact on your environment
6. Financial Wellness: Debt reduction, cash flow balance or financial future planning
7. Occupational Wellness: Personal achievement and enrichment from your career
8. Social Wellness: Contribution to your community

Health Areas

Within each domain, we have included a number of health areas. These are specific issues that you can tackle.  Within each health area, e.g. Depression, we have built additional information and exercises which you can do to help in the area. You can create your own Action Plan to address this area, and see

Emotional: Anxiety, Compassion Fatigue, Depression, Gambling, Laughter, Narcissistic, Personality Disorder, Sleep, Stress

Environmental: Environmental Issues, Greenness

Financial: Debt, Family Finance, Financial Planning, Financial Wellness

Intellectual: IQ, Personality, Procrastination

Occupational: Jobs for Different Personality Types, Retirement Income, Work Life Balance

Physical: Alcohol, Disabilities, Dizziness, Drugs, Fitness, Food Preferences, General Health, Healthy Ageing, Illness, Nutrition, Sleep Apnea, Smoking

Social: Communication Skills, Communication Styles, Domestic Abuse, Emotional Abuse, Love Partnerships, Mental Abuse, Parenting Styles, Sexual Addiction

Spiritual: Are You Sensitive, Mystical Guidance, Spirituality

Each health area has supporting information and its own questionnaire.

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Understand Health

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Physical, financial and mental health

One definition of health is:

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. 

The NHS define health as: ‘We use a broad definition of health that encompasses both physical and mental health, as well as wellbeing. This means we are not only interested in whether or not people are ill or have a health condition, but also in how healthy and well they are.’

We believe we also have to consider financial health, as this can easily impact physical and mental health. Click the button to see an example of how these are connected.

 It gets more complicated…

What is Health? How about Wellness, Wellbeing or Happiness?

The Active Wellbeing Society (TAWS) define Health as a state of the overall mental and physical state of a person; the absence of disease. They define Wellbeing or wellness as a way of life that aims to enhance well-being and refers to a more holistic whole-of-life experience which also includes emotional and spiritual aspects of life.  We expand on this definition of health to include financial health and mental health, to make it synonymous with wellbeing or wellness.  

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Health domains

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We break down the overall concept of health or wellness into ‘bite-sized chunks’ that we can actually do something about.  The first level we call health domains.

We like the Life of Wellness site and we have chosen the following domains.

1. Emotional Wellness: Awareness and acceptance of feelings
2. Spiritual Wellness: A search for meaning and purpose
3. Intellectual Wellness: Recognition of your creativity, knowledge and skills
4. Physical Wellness: Need for physical activity and balanced nutrition
5. Environmental Wellness: Positive awareness and impact on your environment
6. Financial Wellness: Debt reduction, cash flow balance or financial future planning
7. Occupational Wellness: Personal achievement and enrichment from your career
8. Social Wellness: Contribution to your community

wellness wheel

Health Areas

Within each domain, we have included a number of health areas. These are specific issues that you can tackle.  Within each health area, e.g. Depression, once you have subscribed we have built additional information and exercises which you can do to help in the area.

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See which domains you should address

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Having established that we use 8 domains, you need to understand which you should concentrate on.

The 8 are:

  • Emotional
  • Environmental
  • Financial
  • Intellectual
  • Occupational
  • Physical
  • Social
  • Spiritual

 

You can take a questionnaire, which scores you in each domain.  You can decide which domains you are strong in, and which you need to improve.

Another analysis shows which domains you should look at, but also which domains you want to look at.

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Locus of Control

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  • We want to help people in all aspects of their health  – physical, financial and mental. We also provide detailed explanations of how overall health (or well-being) is measured.
  • We believe these things are often linked, so we try and address health holistically. We are building templates, questionnaires and exercises to help you identify what’s important to you.
  • We think people should try and take responsibility for  of their own health as much as they can.  See below for what that means.

People look at things differently.  Some people believe things happen to them, while others believe they can influence what happens to them. Technically this is called the ‘locus of control’.  People can have an Internal or external Locus of Control

So how do you see things?

Psychology Today have a 15 minute test which gives you a summary of your position you can buy the detailed results if you want to.

My Personality Test have a 10 minute test which gives you a summary.

People tend to take more responsibility (locus gets more internal) as they get older.  However, external isn’t always bad – for example if you are physically unable to do some things you can accept it and focus on the things you can do.  This American video explains the concept and gives examples of how this can affect relationships.

locus of control

Internal

  • More likely to take responsibility for actions
  • Tend to be less influenced by others

External

  • Blame outside forces for what happens
  • Don’t believe they can change their situation themselves

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Add your attitude to change - see how you view changes in your life

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Do you need to change?

No matter how healthy you are at the moment, the chances are that there are some areas you could improve. It may be that you have a real problem in one or more areas, and you would like to make some improvements.

At YouDrive we accept that there are many different degrees of ‘not wellness’ in a large number of different health areas, ranging from physical illness such as covid-19 through mental illness such as anxiety through to financial problems like debt.  We try and help where the problem ranges from ‘slight’ to quite bad’ – after this expert help and intervention may be needed.

However, especially in these times, we have to try and make these changes ourselves, possibly with some help from others, whether remotely or face to face.

The thing is, to make an improvement we have to change some things.

This involves changing our behaviour in some respects, and that’s not always easy.

Henry Ford, the creator of the assembly line, is quoted as saying “if you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got”.  

henry ford

Another way of looking at this: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.” – attributed to Albert Einstein.

Consequently we need to make some changes.  The problem is that we have already developed a lot of habits, some of which we need to break and replace by better ones.  Some of our bad habits have become entrenched, and the bad results they create in turn engender further bad habits to develop – in effect the bad habits can feed on themselves.

We need to understand how we can make changes and stick to them, and that’s what this part of your health profile is about.

It will involve some learning, through reading, some videos and some additional information and also seeing how you react to change currently.

It will also ask you to consider whether you feel you are in charge of your future, or whether you feel it’s all fate.

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Assess your overall health using a health questionnaire

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At YouDrive we try and help people improve their health. We use ‘health’ but we understand there are other terms such as wellbeing or even happiness that reflect how we are doing in our lives – if you’re interested in the different definitions and ideas see our page on the subject.

We want to help whether you have a particular problem – physical, financial or mental – or if you just want to improve some specific part of your life or just make some improvements overall.

You’d be surprised, but there has been a serious amount of scientific work done in this area over the last twenty years.

So first we allow you to assess your current health (or wellbeing, or happiness).  We do this by questionnaire.  Which one is determined by the type of person you are:

  1. You understand yourself well and want a quick overview of your health and wellness, and will drill down in any areas needing work
  2. You want to do a more detailed assessment and then focus on areas you’re already aware of
  3. You want to look at the whole situation in more detail across all the health domains.

By the way, we take your privacy seriously – we collect information that you choose to provide but we de-identify it as much as possible and will never share it with anyone without your explicit consent.

You can then drill down into some specific areas and there are more questionnaires to see your situation in these particular areas.  We provide you with specific information and refer you to other potential aspects of help. Our next step is to build a personalised action plan – for now we will make a suggestion for you to develop your own plan and then after a time you can see whether this has had a positive impact by retaking the test.

In future we will be engaging with medical and behavioural specialists to devise action plans for individual people with specific situations.

We have an overall questionnaire which you can complete which will assess your current state.

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Values, Attitudes and Beliefs

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We all have our beliefs, attitudes and values – these have developed throughout our life based on who we are and what we have done. Let’s look at what these are.

The University of Reading explain: “People’s values, beliefs and attitudes are formed and bonded over time through the influences of family, friends, society and life experiences. So, by the time you’re an adult, you can hold very definite views on just about everything with a sense of “no one is going to change my mind”.

The combination of your personal values, beliefs and attitudes are your moral principles that guide you in life and affect your behaviour. However, your views can wildly differ to others and in an institution such as a school, these beliefs may be counter to the values of the school, child development or indeed the law.” 

Let’s look more closely at the differences between beliefs, attitudes and values.

Beliefs

These come from real experiences – we think our beliefs are based on reality, but in fact our beliefs colour our experiences; also, an original experience e.g. when we were a child is not the same as what’s happening now. Beliefs can be moral, religious or cultural and reflect who we are. They can be rational (‘it gets colder in winter’) or irrational (‘I am never going to make something of myself’).

Attitudes

This is an immediate belief or disposition about something specific. It is a recurring group of beliefs and behaviours aimed at specific groups, people, ideas or objects. They will normally be positive or negative and we will always behave that way to the target group. Examples of attitudes include confidence (I can or can’t do something), grateful (I an entitled to / grateful for XXX) and cheerful (I am generally happy / miserable).

Values

These are things (principles or qualities) that we hold in high regard or consider to be worthwhile or right / wrong. They are formed by a belief related to the worth of something – an idea or behaviour. Some values are common (e.g. family comes first, the value of friendship) or cultural (which the whole community have – see video at Study.com here)

The theory

Links to Wikipedia

Expectancy Value Theory suggests you balance your beliefs about something with the value you attach to it. The Theory of Reasoned Action suggests that beliefs and evaluation about behavioural outcomes determine attitudes, and intentions lead directly to behaviour.

Beliefs

Expressions of confidence – can change over time

Attitudes

Learned predispositions to something – are subject to change

Values

Ideals that guide our behaviour – Generally long lasting and often need life changing experience to change

Iceberg demonstrating implicit and explicit bias – from Owlcation

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A Butterfly Life: 4 Keys to More Happiness, Better Health and Letting Your True Self Shine

Times of change can be a challenge, no doubt! Whether it’s a relationship breakup, job loss, or being diagnosed with a serious health issue. Or you may WANT things to be different, but it feels a little scary or overwhelming. The butterfly reminds us change can be beautiful, even necessary, in order to realize our full potential and live our best life.