Health Psychology : a Textbook

number of subjects. In order to research further into individuals’ beliefs about illness, researchers in New Zealand and the UK ...

that can be used to make sense of their illness and help their understanding of any developing symptoms. These illness cognition ...

Stage 1: Interpretation An individual may be confronted with the problem of a potential illness through two channels: symptom pe ...

and dynamic fashion. Therefore, interactions occur between the different stages. For example:
Symptom perception may result in ...

(189 female and 44 male) completed and returned the questionnaire and were included in the data analysis. These subjects ranged ...

was related to more negative beliefs about consequences and a belief that the illness was less controllable and less curable (e. ...

psychological adjustment was related to positive reinterpretation, seeking emotional support, not using substances and not venti ...

may be more externally focused and less sensitive to any internal changes. However, this difference is not always consistent wit ...

premenstrual symptoms. This indicates an association between cognitive state and symptom perception. Pennebaker also reported th ...

For example, a formal diagnosis may occur after symptoms have been perceived, the individual has subsequently been motivated to ...

Implications for the outcome of the coping process Shontz developed these stages from observations of individuals in hospital an ...

Changes in the future: a future involving children, career or travel can become uncertain. In addition, the crisis nature of i ...

The three illness-specific tasks can be described as: 1 Dealing with pain, incapacitation and other symptoms. This task involves ...

1 Preserving a reasonable emotional balance. This involves compensating for the negative emotions aroused by illness with suffic ...

Problem-focused coping involves confronting the problem and reconstructing it as manageable. Three types of problem-focused copi ...

Adjustment to physical illness and the theory of cognitive adaptation In an alternative model of coping, Taylor and colleagues ( ...

A search for mastery A search for mastery is reflected in questions such as ‘How can I prevent a similar event reoccurring?’, ‘W ...

sense of self-esteem. It is suggested that these processes involve developing illusions. Such illusions are not necessarily in c ...

USING THE SELF-REGULATORY MODEL TO PREDICT OUTCOMES The self-regulatory model describes a transition from interpretation, throug ...

coping, exercise and mood. Therefore, they asked the questions ‘Does recovery from stroke relate to illness cognitions?’ and ‘If ...