Health Psychology, 2nd Edition
relationship between conscientiousness and behaviours (Bogg and Roberts, 2004) showed conscientiousness to be positively related ...
behaviours. This work suggests that our thoughts and feelings about performing a particular health behaviour (e.g. exercising) a ...
et al. (2002) reported conscientiousness to significantly moderate the intention–behaviour relationship, with higher levels of c ...
PERSONALITY AND HEALTH 133 that conscientious individuals appear to be less likely to engage in health-risking behaviours such a ...
134 COPING RESOURCES The direction of causation is ideally assessed in an experimental study in which we manipulate (rather than ...
SUMMARY A number of personality traits show significant relationships with various health out - comes such as morbidity and mort ...
136 COPING RESOURCES SAMPLE ESSAY TITLES Describe the evidence relating key personality traits to different kinds of health out ...
4 Motivation and behaviour ...
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Chapter 7 Health cognitions and health behaviours health behaviours 7 CHAPTER PLAN In Chapter 6 we examined the part that person ...
140 MOTIVATION AND BEHAVIOUR 3 Evaluate the contribution of stage models to the understanding of change in health behaviours. 4 ...
Demographic variables show reliable associations with the performance of various health behaviours. Age, for example, shows a cu ...
3 perceptions of disease threat; 4 knowledge about disease; 5 social network characteristics; and 6 demographic factors. These s ...
SOCIAL COGNITION MODELS Social cognition models describe the important cognitions that distinguish between those who do and do n ...
The health belief model The health belief model (HBM) is the earliest and most widely used SCM in health psychology (see Abraham ...
Threat (motivation) EXTERNALVARIABLESDemographicvariablesAge, sex,occupation, socio-economic status, religion, educationPersonal ...
report significant effects for susceptibility, severity, benefits and barriers, respectively). Some studies have found that thes ...
Threat appraisal SOURCES OFINFORMATION Other external variables Age, sex, occupation,socio-economic status, Environmental religi ...
reducing the threat and believes that he or she can successfully perform the adaptive response. So, for example, smokers will tr ...
Belief aboutoutcomes Evaluationof outcomes × Perceivedlikelihood ofoccurence Perceivedfacilitating/inhibiting power × Normative ...
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