Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS SjS41R0x. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Economic rationality is traditionally represented by goal-oriented, maximising behaviour, or'instrumental rationality'Such a consequentialist, instrumental model of choice is often implicit in a biomedical approach to health promotion and education. The research reported here assesses the relevance of a broader conceptual framework of rationality, which includes'procedural'and'expressive'rationality as complements to an instrumental model of rationality, in a health context. Q methodology was used to derive'factors'underlying health and lifestyle choices, based on a factor analysis of the results of a card sorting procedure undertaken by 27 adult respondents with type 2 diabetes in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. These factors were then compared with the rationality framework and the appropriateness of an extended model of economic rationality as a means of better understanding health and lifestyle choices was assessed. Taking a wider rational choice perspective, choices which are rendered irrational within a narrow-biomedical or strictly instrumental model, can be understood in terms of a coherent rationale, grounded in the accounts of respondents. The implications of these findings are discussed in terms of rational choice theory and diabetes management and research.
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