Health Psychology, 2nd Edition
on self-rated health, but loneliness appeared to mediate the association between isolation and mental health. Both have been lin ...
For people who are perhaps isolated by illness or disability, the Internet can provide a unique and invaluable source of support ...
112 COPING RESOURCES Search for support groups online (e.g. type ‘support group’ into Google). Pick three support groups for phy ...
SAMPLE ESSAY TITLES Moving house is generally considered to be a stressful experience. How does psychological theory and resear ...
Uchino, B.N. (2009). Understanding the links between social support and physical health: A life-span perspective with emphasis o ...
Personality and health 6 CHAPTER PLAN In this chapter we examine the ways in which personality dimensions or traits can determin ...
protects their health. Much research on personality in recent years has focused on five broad personality types: openness to exp ...
In relation to the development of chronic diseases, personality traits may play an important role in the maintenance of behaviou ...
118 COPING RESOURCES pessimistic in others, optimism taps the extent to which an individual is optimistic in general across a ra ...
bottom 25 per cent (quartiles) indicated that 24 per cent of those in the top quartile had died compared to 54 per cent of those ...
TYPE A BEHAVIOUR Type A behaviour pattern is typified by a competitive drive, aggression, chronic impatience and a sense of time ...
patients, even though patients tended to sit on the edge of waiting room chairs to the extent that an upholsterer commented that ...
heart disease and hence that type A is not a risk factor for heart disease. Since that time there seems no further evidence to s ...
PERSONALITY AND HEALTH 123 analysis offers a less positive interpretation based on a smaller subset of papers (Myrtek, 2001), i. ...
124 COPING RESOURCES 1 Psychophysiological reactivity model: suggests that hostile individuals show exaggerated cardiovascular a ...
PERSONALITY AND HEALTH 125 Type D personality Similar to type A, type D personality is a risk factor for coronary heart disease. ...
NEUROTICISM Neuroticism is one of the Big Five personality traits. It refers to the tendency to commonly experience negative emo ...
Neuroticism may also influence an individual’s health behaviour patterns and, thereby, their health outcomes. Neuroticism is ass ...
relation to health behaviour patterns, extraversion appears to be associated with both health-protective behaviours like exercis ...
coping strategies (O’Brien and Delongis, 1996; see Chapter 5). In addition, conscien - tiousness is associated with a propensity ...
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