Health, Stress & Coping - PSYC121 Week 12

Flashcards for PSYC121 Week 12 Lecture Notes

Health Psychologist

Psychologists involved in examining behavioral and psychological factors that place individuals at risk of illness and in facilitating the development/change of behaviors that promote health and prevent illness.

Health-Compromising Behaviors

Behaviors that increase the risk of disease, illness, and death.

Social Isolation

Can lead to increased stress, low resilience, muscular weakness, physical inactivity, reduced motor skills, mental ill-health, physical ill-health, and sedentary behaviors.

Leading Causes of Death in Australia

Coronary heart disease and dementia including Alzheimer's disease.

Factors Affecting Preventable Disease Death Rates

Science and medical advances, lifestyle choices, and health-compromising behaviors.

Biological factors in the Biopsychosocial Model of Health

Genetic vulnerability, metabolic disorders, immune/stress response, comorbidity, response to reward, and drug effects.

Psychological factors in the Biopsychosocial Model of Health

Emotions, self-esteem, coping skills, trauma, grief, perceptions, temperament, and social skills.

Social factors in the Biopsychosocial Model of Health

Peer group, diet/lifestyle, work, school, attitudes/beliefs, interpersonal and environmental relationships, socio-economic status, culture, family circumstances.

Barriers to Health Promotion

Individual, health system, community & cultural, and family.

Individual Barriers to Health Promotion

Gender, rewarding negative behaviors, and non-immediate negative effects.

Family Barriers to Health Promotion

Children modeling parental behavior and genetics.

Health System Barriers to Health Promotion

Focus on illness, lack of private health insurance, and patient-practitioner relationship.

Community & Cultural Barriers to Health Promotion

Norms and health disparities.

Scientific Theories

Testable and make falsifiable predictions.

Health Belief Model

Demographic variables, perceived benefits minus perceived barriers, perceived threat of disease (susceptibility and seriousness), and cues to action.

Protection Motivation Theory

Perceived severity, perceived vulnerability, response efficacy, and self-efficacy.

Mastery Experiences

Past performance accomplishments.

Vicarious Experiences

Watching others perform.

Verbal Persuasion

Social support and positive self-talk.

Physiological Arousal

How we feel; negative relationship with stress.

Theory of Planned behavior

Behaviour is largely determined by one’s intention to perform that behavior.

Factors determining intention in Theory of Planned Behaviour

Attitudes, subjective norms, and perceptions of control over the behavior.

Stages of the Transtheoretical Model

Pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance.

Pre-contemplation

No intention to change behavior.

Contemplation

Intend to start exercising in near future.

Preparation

Currently exercising but not regularly.

Action

Physically active for less than 6 months.

Maintenance

Physically active for more than 6 months.

Consistencies across behavior change models

Self-efficacy and perceived control, attitudes and beliefs, and intentions.