Health Psychology Flashcards
How is Health defined?
health is not just the absence of illness but is a state of wellbeing involving psychosocial, spiritual and physical aspects
What is Health Behaviour?
Kapteinand Weinman (2004): health behaviour =
‘activities that may help to prevent disease, detect disease and disability at an early stage, promote and enhance health or protect from risk or injury’
What is the Protection Motivation Theory?
a widely-used framework to understand responses to triggers that appraise individuals of a potential threat. These triggers include fear messages that encourage individuals to take protective measures or to refrain from activities that might harm themselves or others
What is the Theory of Reasoned Action?
suggests that a person’s behavior is determined by their intention to perform the behavior and that this intention is, in turn, a function of their attitude toward the behavior and subjective norms
What is the Theory of Planned Behaviour?
a theory used to understand and predict behaviors, which posits that behaviors are immediately determined by behavioral intentions and under certain circumstances, perceived behavioral control.
What is the Stages of Change Model?
Pre-contemplation Contemplation Preparation Action Maintenance Relapse
What is the Self Regulation Theory?
Individuals work towards goals, to maintain emotional comfort and decrease the effect of a health event on their daily lives
Five key components of illness representations:–Identity; Cause; Timeline; Consequences; Control/cure
What is the Health Action Process Approach?
Developed to address the intention-behaviour gap
To turn intention into action, planning has to take place
What are the different levels of intervention?
Universal preventive intervention
Selective preventive interventions
Indicated preventative interventions
Treatment
What are the three components of the process of Stress?
Stressors
Stress Mediators
Stress Response
