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Voluntarily

The degree to which an individual agrees to pursue a behavioural goal or programme in the absence of coercion. Voluntaries is assumed when the individual chooses and/or initiates action toward a goal in the absence of strong threats or highly intrusive, unusually powerful, incentives.

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