Health Psychology : a Textbook

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2 Health beliefs CHAPTER OVERVIEW Changes in causes of death throughout the twentieth century can in part be explained in terms ...

WHAT ARE HEALTH BEHAVIOURS? Kasl and Cobb (1966) defined three types of health-related behaviours. They suggested that:
a heal ...

decline in illnesses such as pneumonia and influenza. He showed, however, that the reduction in such illnesses was already under ...

effect on longevity. For example, Doll and Peto (1981) reported estimates of the role of different factors as causes for all can ...

Longevity: Cross-cultural differences The relationship between behaviour and mortality can also be illustrated by the longevity ...

health-related behaviours. Some of this research has used qualitative methods to explore and understand ‘lay theories’ and the w ...

emotional factors, such as anxiety, stress, tension and fear;
perceived symptoms, such as pain, breathlessness and fatigue; ...

controllable versus uncontrollable (e.g. the cause of my failure to get a job was controllable by me versus was uncontrollable ...

related to whether an individual changes their behaviour (e.g. gives up smoking) and to the kind of communication style they req ...

sexual behaviour. Subjects were allocated to either the risk-increasing or risk-decreasing condition. Subjects in the risk-incre ...

1991; Marcus et al. 1992). If applied to smoking cessation, the model would suggest the following set of beliefs and behaviours ...

Integrating these different health beliefs: developing models In summary, attribution theory and the health locus of control emp ...

The HBM suggests that these core beliefs should be used to predict the likelihood that a behaviour will occur. In response to cr ...

in regular exercise programmes are related to the individual’s perception of susceptibility to the related health problem, to th ...

Criticisms of the HBM The HBM has been criticized for these conflicting results. It has also been criticized for several other w ...

The PMT describes severity, susceptibility and fear as relating to threat appraisal (i.e. appraising to outside threat) and resp ...

adapting models to fit the specific factors related to a specific behaviour. This study is interesting as it represents an attem ...

between fear and behavioural intentions, high levels of fear detracted from this rela- tionship. The authors suggested that when ...

SOCIAL COGNITION MODELS Social cognition models examine factors that predict behaviour and/or behavioural intentions and in addi ...