Rowe, Arlen 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1880-8513
(2016)
Does Motivation Predict Compliance with Self-Help Online Treatment for Youth Anxiety?
Honours thesis,
University of Southern Queensland.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
Self-directed online interventions have been identified as an effective treatment option for youth anxiety, however their reach and impact continues to be hampered by issues of low program compliance. Motivation has been identified as playing a key role in determining engagement with treatment generally, which is likely to be exacerbated in online programs where there is no professional support. This study aimed to examine the role of motivation in predicting compliance with the BRAVE Program, a self-directed online intervention for youth anxiety. A total of 1,156 child and adolescent participants completed measures of motivation (Motivation for Youth Treatment Scale) and anxiety severity (Children’s Anxiety Scale) upon registering for the program. The total number of sessions completed (compliance) within a 20-week treatment period was recorded. It was hypothesised that motivation would predict compliance, but this would be different for children and adolescents, and across anxiety severity. For children, motivation did not predict compliance. For adolescents, motivation negatively predicted compliance, however, this was only evident for participants with low anxiety severity. The results of this study demonstrate that the relationship between motivation and compliance is not straightforward, is impacted by severity, and needs to be considered separately for children and adolescents. It is likely that other factors may also contribute to compliance, and these need to be identified before it can be determined for whom online self-help programs are best suited.
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Non-Research) (Honours) |
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| Item Status: | Live Archive |
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| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences - School of Psychology and Counselling (1 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2021) |
| Supervisors: | Sonja March |
| Qualification: | Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Sep 2025 01:43 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Sep 2025 01:43 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | motivation ; severity ; online interventions ; children ; adolescents |
| Fields of Research (2008): | 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 1799 Other Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified |
| Fields of Research (2020): | 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5299 Other psychology > 529999 Other psychology not elsewhere classified |
| URI: | https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/52716 |
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