Practice question · True or false
The same individual 'choice' can look very different depending on whether it is made inside a supportive environment or a constrained, unsupportive one.
Hints
- Consider choosing fresh food in a neighbourhood with a supermarket versus one without.
- Community and societal conditions set the range of options a person actually has.
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True
Why
True. Community and societal conditions actively shape the options available, so the same nominal 'choice' is far easier in a supportive environment than a constrained one. This is precisely why the social-ecological model rejects treating outcomes as pure individual choice.
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