Health Psychology : a Textbook

Components of the TPB The TPB emphasizes behavioural intentions as the outcome of a combination of several beliefs. The theory p ...

comply with this pressure (e.g. ‘people who are important to me will approve if I lose weight and I want their approval’);
Per ...

In addition, it includes a role for past behaviour within the measure of perceived behavioural control. The health action proces ...

outcome expectancies (e.g. ‘stopping smoking will improve my health’), which has a subset of social outcome expectancies (e.g. ...

PROBLEMS WITH THE MODELS Cognition and social cognition models provide a structured approach to understanding health beliefs and ...

Cross-sectional research can only show associations rather than causality. To solve this prospective studies are used which se ...

up to 50 per cent of the variance remains unexplained. Some new variables have been developed to improve the effectiveness of th ...

Recent studies, however, have also explored the role of ambivalence in predicting behaviour (Thompson et al. 1995) which has bee ...

fulfilled (e.g. ‘It is likely that I will start swimming next week’). They suggested that such self-predictions are more likely ...

Bridging the intention–behaviour gap The third approach to address the limited way in which research has predicted behaviour has ...

and AIDS and were available widely. They excluded those that were aimed at lesbians due to their focus on protective measures ot ...

Existing theory based interventions Over recent years an increasing number of behavioural interventions have drawn upon a theory ...

ASSUMPTIONS IN HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY Research into health beliefs highlights some of the assumptions in health psychology: 1 Human b ...

4 Cognitions without a context. Models of health beliefs and health behaviours tend to examine an individual’s cognitions out of ...

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3 Illness cognitions CHAPTER OVERVIEW Chapter 2 described health beliefs and the models that have been developed to evaluate the ...

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE HEALTHY? For the majority of people living in the Western world, being healthy is the norm – most people ...

Physiological/physical, e.g. good condition, have energy.
Psychological, e.g. happy, energetic, feel good psychologically.
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Identity: This refers to the label given to the illness (the medical diagnosis) and the symptoms experienced (e.g. I have a co ...

been made previously in response to descriptions of ‘your most recent illness’. They reported that the subjects’ piles of catego ...