Staying physically active has always been associated with achieving optimal physical and mental health in people across different ages and backgrounds. Many studies found regular physical activity is profoundly beneficial for preventing and managing chronic disease (Lee, Shiroma, Lobelo, Puska, Blair & Katzmarzyk, 2012; Reiner, Niermann, Jekauc, & Woll, 2013). It is also established to improve psychological wellbeing, including decreasing stress levels and boosting mood (Sharma, Madaan, & Petty, 2006). However, approximately a third of the world’s adult population did not recognize the health benefits of physical activity, but rather choose to maintain a couch potato lifestyle as reported by ABC News (Healey, 2013). In many high-income nations, for example, in Australia, there are merely 43% of adults whose levels of physical activity were sufficiently active through out the year of 2011 (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2013). The current functional analysis was designed to increase the amount of physical activity undertaken by a university student. The aim was to increase the desired behaviour of walking via integrating a social support intervention. This study was conducted over a period of 7 weeks including one week of prior-intervention baseline, five weeks of intervention, and finally another week of post-intervention baseline. It chose an A-B-A single subject experimental design and collected data …show more content…
It also predicts the future outcome of performance when the intervention is not provided (Kazdin, 1982). A one-week data was collected before the intervention by self-monitoring as the baseline data. The baseline data was collected through direct assessment methods, which the behaviours of the participant were observed and the context of the behaviours were also recorded (Wilson & Murrel,