Health Stress and Coping Flashcards
Health Belief Model
- Suggests that health behaviours are predicted by four factors: The perceived susceptibility to the health threat, the perceived seriousness of the health threat, the benefits and barriers of undertaking particular health behaviours and cues to action
HBM Perceived susceptibility
- Persons perception that he is likely to contract a particular illness
HBM Perceived Severity
Refers to an individuals perception of the impact a particular illness would have on their life
Theory of reasoned action
A socio cognitive view, an individuals attitude to toward a health behaviour and subjective norms influence their behaviours to perform that action
Theory of planned behaviour
Theory of reasoned action +self efficacy
Stress
- Refers to a challenge to a person’s capacity to adapt to inner and outer demands. Stressful experiences typically elicit cognitive and behavioural efforts to cope with the stress
- Transaction between the individual and the environment
Lazarus Model
- Primary Appraisal: Deciding on the significance or the meaning of the event
- Secondary Appraisal: Evaluate our ability to cope and decide how to respond
- Three types of stress: 1) Harm or loss 2) Threat 3) Challenge
Autonomic Nervous System:
o Concerned with regulation of smooth muscle (skin, blood vessels, walls of gut), cardiac muscle and glands
o Two divisions: Sympathetic (involved in activities associated with expenditure energy from reserves of energy stored in the body) and parasympathetic (supports activities that are involved with increases in the body’s supply of stored energy
General Adaption Syndrome
o Alarm: Release of adrenaline and other hormones (fight or flight response)
o Resistance: Respiration and heart rate return to normal, gluclose levels and some stress related hormones remain high
o Exhaustion: After prolonged stress the body’s defences break down, increased vulnerability to infection and disease
