The Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF)
| TDF domain | Description |
| Knowledge | An awareness of the existence of something. |
| Skills | An ability or proficiency acquired through practice. |
| Social/professional role and identity | A coherent set of behaviours and displayed personal qualities of an individual in a social or work setting. |
| Beliefs about capabilities | Acceptance of the truth, reality or validity about an ability, talent or facility that a person can put to constructive use. |
| Optimism | The confidence that things will happen for the best, or that desired goals will be attained. |
| Beliefs about consequences | Acceptance of the truth, reality or validity about outcomes of a behaviour in a given situation. |
| Reinforcement | Increasing the probability of a response by arranging a dependent relationship or contingency, between the response and a given stimulus. |
| Intentions | A conscious decision to perform a behaviour or a resolve to act in a certain way. |
| Goals | Mental representation of outcomes or end states that an individual wants to achieve. |
| Memory, attention and decision processes | The ability to retain information, focus selectively on aspects of the environment and choose between two or more alternatives. |
| Environmental context and resources | Any circumstance of a person’s situation or environment that discourages or encourages the development of skills and abilities, independence, social competence and adaptive behaviour. |
| Social influences | Those interpersonal processes that can cause an individual to change their thoughts, feelings or behaviours. |
| Emotion | A complex reaction pattern, involving experiential, behavioural and physiological elements, by which the individual attempts to deal with a personally significant matter or event. |
| Behavioural regulation | Anything aimed at managing or changing objectively observed or measured actions. |
Table reproduced from Cane et al.16