Health Behavior and personality 💘 Flashcards
What is health behaviour
Health behaviour is related to the health status of the individual
Attribution theory
The perceiver uses information to arrive at causal explanations for events
‘Naive psychologist’
Locus control
People differ to the degree in which they control their lives
Internal vs external: from within themselves vs forces outside eg luck
Behavioural control: ability to take concrete action to reduce something
Cognitive control: ability to use thought processes or strategies to modify impact of something
Self efficacy
The belief that we can succeed in an activity that we want to do
Role models and mastery through practice can impact
Health belief model
People more likely to adhere when they view their physical problem as severe and to have further negative effects if they don’t adhere See treatment as effective See few barriers Few rewards for sailing to adhere Environmental cue Believe they can change
Theory of planned behaviour
Massive interplay between attitude and social norms and how we perceive behavior control
Transthoretical model
Move through different stages when changing behavior
Involves u balance self efficacy and process of change and temptation
Psychodynamic personality theory
Based on unconscious internal conflicts associated with childhood experience and oleaseure seeking impulses and social restraints and demands
Freuds three levels of awareness
Conscious mind
Preconscious mind
Unconscious mind
Linked to freud theories
Freud’s three types of personality
The id (unconscious, primitive thinking driven by biological urge eg hunger and life and death instinct) The ego (conscious processing eg decision making) The superego (partly conscious internalised rules of society and family and conscience)
Humanistic theory
Focuses on human experience and free will
Carl Rogers and maslon
Carl Rogers concepts
We need positive regard and approval from others so we change our behaviour to obtain it
Trust our feelings
However it ignores biology and is western
Maslon concepts and hierarchy of needs
Self actualisation is realising personal potential and linked to morality and creativity
Hierarchy from bottom to top: physiological(food sleep), safety ,love ,esteem and self actualisation
Trait theories
Identifying the most basic enduring dimensions which is traits
Started with jung- introverts vs extroverts
Eysenck and catell
Eysencks three factor theory
Introverts vs extroverts
Emotional stability vs neuroticism (more emotional )
Impulse control vs psychoticism
