Theory 46: PRIME Theory

Number of Constructs: 15
Number of Triples: 40

Theory triples

• Motives influences Impulses
• Evaluations influences Motives
• Plans influences Evaluations
• Evaluations influences Plans
• Motives influences Evaluations
• Internal environment influences Plans
• Internal environment influences Evaluations
• Internal environment influences Motives
• Internal environment influences Impulses
• External environment influences Internal environment
• Impulses influences Responses
• Responses influences External environment
• Impulses influences Internal environment
• Motives influences Internal environment
• Evaluations influences Internal environment
• Plans influences Internal environment
• Emotions about self part of Internal environment
• Beliefs about self part of Identity
• Emotions about self part of Identity
• Evaluations about self part of Identity
• Plans part of Identity
• Beliefs about self part of Internal environment
• Evaluations about self type of Beliefs about self
• Beliefs about self influences Emotions about self
• Emotions about self influences Beliefs about self
• Evaluations about self type of Evaluations
• Wants type of Motives
• Needs type of Motives
• Wants influences Needs
• Needs influences Wants
• Images of self part of Identity
• Images of self influences Emotions about self
• Emotions about self influences Images of self
• Images of self influences Beliefs about self
• Beliefs about self influences Images of self
• Images of self part of Internal environment
• Motives influences Inhibitions
• Inhibitions influences Responses
• Internal environment influences Inhibitions
• Inhibitions influences Internal environment

Theory constructs and annotations

• Motives A feeling of desire (i.e. want or need) to attain an imagined state of affairs [ BCIO:006064 (Psychological need) 46 26 41 ]
• Impulses A coordinate action schema which, if unopposed, will result in an action [ BCIO:050234 (Impulse) 46 ]
• Evaluations A belief about the degree to which something is good or bad in some way, e.g. harmful vs. beneficial, morally right or wrong [ BCIO:006038 (Evaluative belief) 46 39 50 42 48 31 ]
• Plans A self-conscious intention to perform an act in the future [ BCIO:006016 (Behavioural intention) 46 , BCIO:050228 (Mental plan) 46 41 24 73 72 29 35 28 ]
• Internal environment Perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and drive processes that provide input to the motivational system [ MF:0000032 (Bodily disposition) 46 29 ]
• External environment The immediate situation that a person inhabits that includes stimuli detectable by sense organs [ ENVO:01000254 (Environmental system) 46 2 56 47 76 49 72 60 58 67 63 4 17 5 66 9 3 10 14 ]
• Responses Starting, stopping or modifying a behaviour [ BCIO:036000 (Individual Human Behaviour) 46 50 11 49 42 35 47 52 43 24 25 39 30 ]
• Emotions about self Feelings about the self such as liking, hating, enjoying [ BCIO:050638 (Emotion about self) 46 ]
• Beliefs about self Mental representations of the self held to be true [ ADDICTO:0000399 (Self-identity) 46 ]
• Identity Mental representations of the self as one is, was, or aspires to be and emotions associated with these [ ADDICTO:0000399 (Self-identity) 46 ]
• Evaluations about self Beliefs about the degree to which the self is good or bad [ BCIO:006035 (Evaluation of self) 46 45 20 ]
• Wants A feeling of anticipated pleasure or satisfaction attaching to an imagined future [ MFOEM:000006 (Subjective affective feeling) 46 49 ]
• Needs A feeling of anticipated relief from mental or physical discomfort [ ADDICTO:0000377 (Feeling of need satisfaction) 46 ]
• Images of self Iconic mental representations of the self [ ADDICTO:0000399 (Self identity) 46 26 9 72 77 ]
• Inhibitions A process by which a response is suppressed

Theory illustration

Theory Reference

• West, R. & Brown, J. (2013). Theory of Addiction (2nd ed.). Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.