change 366
of health professionals 216– 17
parental 139
role in predicting exercise 177
to addiction 104– 6
to eating 150
to smoking 112
variability 180
attribution 43, 61, 62, 68, 109, 262,
277 – 8, 372
internal 19– 20
attribution theory 19–21, 25, 67,
278
Australian and New Zealand Myalgic
Encephalomyelitis Society 55
Australia North Coast Study 121
autoimmune disorders 260
autonomy 152, 223, 280
aversion therapies 117–18, 119
avoidance 28, 65, 229, 269, 271,
278, 294, 377
avoidant coping, see coping, avoidant
B cells 260
back pain 286, 292, 294, 355
bacteria 4, 89
badminton 180
bans 122– 4
barriers 26, 34, 35, 177–8, 216, 218,
219, 220
bathing 385
BDI, see Beck Depression Inventory
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) 171,
387
bedrest 294, 295
behaviour
association with intentions 199
change 3, 230, 282, 333
costs/benefits of 24, 25
disinhibitory 157
health 14– 18
illness 14
interrelationships with beliefs and
health 307, 318, 323, 325, 326
maintenance 31
mortality and 15– 17
obesity and 351
parental 139
past 39, 40, 178, 180
prediction 18–24, 31, 39–41, 43
relationship with cognitions 143
relationship with stress 254– 6
risk increasing/reducing 21– 2
role in aetiology of illness 6, 380
sexual 29–30, 183– 209
sick role 115
therapy 3, 365
type A, see type A behaviour
unhealthy 6, 7
behavioural checklists 93
behavioural control 32, 33, 36, 179,
144, 278
behavioural diet programmes 368
behavioural disengagement 56, 271
behavioural immunogens 14
behavioural instructions 83
behavioural intentions, see intentions,
behavioural
behavioural interventions 380
behavioural medicine 3– 4
behavioural methods, see behavioural
techniques
behavioural pathogens 14
behavioural sciences 3
behavioural techniques 68, 118, 296,
297
behavioural theories of obesity, see
obesity, behavioural theories
behavioural therapy, see behaviour,
therapy
behavioural treatment package 296
behavioural willingness 40
behaviourism 105
beliefs 5–9, 3–45, 70– 2
body dissatisfaction and 151
cancer and 340
core 24–5, 27
immunity and 251
interrelationships with behaviour
and health 307, 318, 323, 325,
326
lay 95
professional 92
role in predicting exercise 177
social 229
treatment 70beneficence 221– 2
benefit finding 272
benign pain 286
benign tumours 338
bereavement 334
Beta-blocker Heart Attack Trial
317 – 18
beta endorphin 242
between-subjects design 403
billiards 169
binge drinking 113
binge eaters 156
bingeing 154, 163
biochemical model 2
biofeedback 296, 297, 343
biographical disruption 373
biomedical framework 286
biomedical model 2–3, 96, 230
biopsychosocial model 4
birth complications 273
birth control pills 342
bisexuals 195–6, 333
bladder control 343
bleeding 309
blood 244, 338
blood glucose 225
blood sugar 128, 212, 213
blue-collar workers 181
BMI, see body mass index
body composition 171
body dissatisfaction 133, 146– 53
body image 228, 229, 342, 343
body mass 226, 266
body mass index (BMI) 353– 6
body size estimation 146– 8
bone marrow 260
bood clots 257
boredom 295, 365
Bortner Questionnaire 276
boundary model of overeating, see
overeating, boundary model
bowel cancer, see cancer, bowel
bowel control 343
Bowman Gray monkeys 252
breast cancer, see cancer, breast
breast reduction surgery 392
breast screening, see screening,
breast460 INDEX