Health Psychology : a Textbook

between exercise and affect with 30 volunteers rating their affective state every minute as they ran on a treadmill. The results ...

FOCUS ON RESEARCH 7.1: TESTING A THEORY – EXERCISE AND MOOD A study to examine the effects of exercise on mood (Steptoe et al. 1 ...

the sportsmen reported decreases in tension/anxiety after the maximal exercise. However, all subjects reported increased exhilar ...

One recent approach to increasing exercise uptake is the exercise prescription scheme whereby GPs refer targeted patients for ex ...

Group 3: the subjects were instructed to do lower intensity exercise on their own.
Group 4: the control subjects were not in ...

Modifiable predictors of exercise Dishman et al. (1985) summarized the following variables as modifiable predictors:
Childhood ...

tempted you are not to exercise in the following situations.. .’. The answers include ‘when I am angry’ and ‘when I am satisfied ...

to the maintenance stage of behaviour. This suggests that encouraging individuals to focus on the pros of exercise may increase ...

Prior behaviour: subjects were asked to rate how frequently they took exercise (‘include activities such as aerobics, badminto ...

correlation analysis showed that all the time 1 variables (apart from normative belief) were significantly correlated with futur ...

ASSUMPTIONS IN HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY The exercise literature illustrates some of the assumptions central to health psychology: 1 The ...

8 Sex CHAPTER OVERVIEW This chapter first examines the literature on sex, including early discussions of reproduction and the de ...

DEVELOPING THE CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES ON SEX Sex as biological, for reproduction Prior to the nineteenth century, se ...

Masters and Johnson This emphasis on the activity of sex is also illustrated by the work of Masters and Johnson in the 1960s. Ma ...

health education and self-protection. This shift has resulted in a psychological literature on sex as a risk both in terms of pr ...

What is contraceptive use? Researchers have used several different classifications of contraception in an attempt to predict con ...

increasing role for sexuality in the individual’s self-concept. Therefore, they describe the transition through the different st ...

2 Peer prescription stage: at this stage the individual seeks contraceptive advice from friends, sexual intercourse is more freq ...

Rains’s model This model was developed by Rains (1971) and again places contraception use within the context of sexuality and se ...

behaviour and commitment. Reiss et al. tested the model and reported support for the first three of the variables as predictive ...