Table 2 Operational definitions of the TDF domains

Knowledge

Awareness about the benefits of PA, detrimental impacts of physical inactivity and the recommended PA guidelines

Physical Skills

Abilities or proficiencies gained via practice

Intentions

Deliberate resolve to carry out a behaviour or a determination to perform in a specific manner

Social Influences

Relational processes that can influence people to transform their views, state of mind, or conducts

Environmental Context and Resources

Circumstances of an individual’s condition or surrounding that hinders or promotes the enhancement of abilities and proficiencies, autonomy, social expertise, and adaptive demeanour

Beliefs about Consequences

Recognition of the fact, certainty, or authenticity concerning the after-effects of a behaviour in a specified circumstance

Beliefs about Capabilities

Recognition of the fact, certainty, or authenticity concerning a skill, facility, or proficiency that an individual can utilise constructively

Reinforcement

Heightening the possibility of a reaction by arranging a contingent association or unforeseen event, between the reaction and a specified incentive

Social/Professional Role and Identity

Rational series of behaviours and exhibited individual attributes of a person in a public or work environment

Memory, Attention and Decision Processes

Capability to keep information, selectively focus on parts of the environment and select amongst two or more options

Optimism

Confidence that things would turn out for the best or that anticipated targets would be achieved

Goals

Cognitive depiction of aftermath or end results that a person intends to attain

Emotion

Intricate response pattern, including empirical, physiological, and behavioural components, through which a person tries to handle an individually important issue or incident

Behavioural Regulation

Anything focused on controlling or transforming impartially perceived or assessed activities