Health Psychology : a Textbook

Coping and the stressor: According to Lazarus and colleagues one of the goals of coping is to minimize the stressor. Much resear ...

SOCIAL SUPPORT What is social support? Social support has been defined in a number of ways. Initially, it was defined according ...

1 The main effect hypothesis suggests that social support itself is beneficial and that the absence of social support is itself ...

data collection. Of these, 62 per cent were defined as refugees (arrived before the fall of the wall) and 38 per cent were legal ...

ill-health and social support and that the relationship between employment and social support is reciprocal over time (i.e. empl ...

and neurotic hostility. Research has asked ‘who is hostile?’, ‘How does hostility link to stress?’ and ‘how does hostility link ...

refuse to draw upon any help when under stress. In fact, this is implicit within some of the measures of hostility with response ...

1 Subjective experience. Corah and Boffa (1970) examined the relationship between the controllability of the stressor and the su ...

Human research Human models have also been used to examine the effect of control on the stress–illness link. For example, the jo ...

examined the prevalence of coronary heart disease in women and compared this prevalence between working and non-working women. I ...

involving chronic and acute stress. Both these pathways involve changes in behaviour and changes in physiology. The behavioural ...

FURTHER READING ➧ Johnston, D. (1992) The management of stress in the prevention of coronary heart disease, in S. Maes, H. Leven ...

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12 Pain CHAPTER OVERVIEW This chapter examines early models of pain and their description of pain as a sensation. It then examin ...

WHAT IS PAIN? Pain seems to have an obvious function. Pain provides constant feedback about the body enabling us to make adjustm ...

Pain was categorized into being either psychogenic pain or organic pain. Psychogenic pain was considered to be ‘all in the pat ...

integrated psychology into the traditional biomedical model of pain and described not only a role for physiological causes and i ...

a perception, rather than a direct mirror image, pain is described as involving an active interpretation of the painful stimuli. ...

although the input from the site of physical injury is mediated and moderated by experience and other psychological factors, the ...

SUBJECTIVE-AFFECTIVE-COGNITIVE PROCESSES The role of learning Classical conditioning Research suggests that classical conditioni ...