Time Perspective: Chronic Illness Flashcards
Procrastination is linked to physical health through a direct pathway: _______ and an indirect pathway: _______
High stress
Treatment delay
3 Factors that increase the risk of developing a chronic illness?
Genetic
Envirosocial
Behavioural
Physical inactivity and unhealthy diet are major contributors to…
Obesity
Living with chronic illness can impact self-perceptions how?
Who you were
Who you are now
Wilson and Ross (2001) said that we have a tendency to derogate…
Distant past selves
Praise recent past selves
Wilson and Ross (2001): We have a tendency to derogate ________, while praising __________
Distant past selves
Recent past selves
Who said that we have a tendency to derogate distant past selves and praise recent past selves?
Wilson and Ross
What did Wilson and Ross find in their study of students?
Students prompted to view beginning of term as further away rated past-self more negatively
We use temporal distance as a proxy for…
Growth and change
Do we perceive ourselves as improving or worsening over time?
Improving
Why do we put our close-past self down?
Feels too close for there to be room for change
How can temporal self-appraisal be manipulated?
By increasing psychological distance (told to view past self as farther in past)
Telling participants to view their past self as even farther in the past manipulates their…
Temporal self-appraisal
Temporal ________ can alter the perception of __________
Landmarks
Temporal landscape
How do temporal landmarks alter the perception of the temporal landscape?
Divide timeframes up for us
Dividing timeframes up via temporal landmarks makes us feel a greater amount of…
Psychological distance
Temporally extended selves are perceived as more distant when an intervening landmark has been made…
Salient
One example of a temporal landmark
You before and after a major birthday
Chronic illness provides a context of continuity and challenge to the ___________
Self system
You before and after a major birthday is an example of
A temporal landmark
____________ provides a context of continuity and challenge to the self system
Chronic illness
Two chronic illness examples
Arthritis
IBD
What is the indirect pathway in which Procrastination is linked to poor health…
Treatment delay
A study of arthritis and IBD found that induction of different time perspectives was…
Unsuccessful in either chronic illness group
Time perspective study of IBD/Arthritis
What was the distant condition
What was the recent condition?
Think v far back - like 6 months ago
Think back to recent past - like 6 months ago
Time perspective study of IBD/Arthritis
Pps were asked to either:
Think v far back - like 6 months ago
Think back to recent past - like 6 months ago
What was this designed to induce?
Differences in perceived temporal distance
Time perspective study of IBD/Arthritis
Thinking about the past in those with chronic illness isn’t sensitive to change. Why?
Different self-system
Lot of background noise
Time perspective study of IBD/Arthritis
Found that temporal landmark theory _________, whereas…
Worked
Temporal self-appraisal does not work
Which 3 factors affect FUTURE SELF-RATED HEALTH?
- Contextual
- Conceptualisation of health
- Appraisal of health
Sirois (2015) - Who looks forward to better health?
What did this study examine?
How the Big 5 were related to FSRH
Sirois (2015) - Who looks forward to better health?
What did this study find regarding fatigue?
Explained 11% and 17% of FSRH
Sirois (2015) - Who looks forward to better health?
Which two samples did this study use
Arthritis
IBD
Sirois (2015) - Who looks forward to better health?
Agreeable and Neuroticism explained…
Additional variance in FSRH
Sirois (2015) - Who looks forward to better health?
_______ levels explained why Agreeableness and Neuroticism were linked to FSRH.
Optimism
Sirois (2015) - Who looks forward to better health?
Which two factors of the FFM were linked to FSRH?
Agreeableness
Neuroticism
Sirois (2015) - Who looks forward to better health?
What explained why Agreeableness and Neuroticism were linked to FSRH?
Optimism
Sirois (2015) - Who looks forward to better health
If you’re high in agreeableness, you tend to…
See your health as getting better in the future
Time Perspective & Management of Type 2 Diabetes (Hall, 2012)
This study examined the influence of TP on two weight-management strategies….
Physical activity
Dietary choice
Time Perspective & Management of Type 2 Diabetes (Hall, 2012)
Individuals with a future-oriented TP reported…
More physical activity
Less frequent fatty food choices
Time Perspective & Management of Type 2 Diabetes (Hall, 2012)
A more present-time orientation may be linked to
Lower weight-management strategies
Is time perspective important in managing chronic illness?
Yes
Why is time perspective important in managing chronic illness?
Associated with greater intention to engage in + health behaviours
Procrastination is associated with ______ conscientiousness and ________ agreeableness
LOW
LOW
Procrastination is associated with high agreeableness
True or false
False
Procrastination is associated with high conscientiousness
True or false
False
Procrastination is associated with low conscientiousness
True or false
True
Procrastination associated with low Conscientiousness and Agreeableness, which are both linked to…
Poor cardiovascular health
Poor _________ may increase vulnerability in individuals with HT/CVD
Coping
Procrastination and ________ are two key factors in the exacerbation of poor health
Stress
“Is procrastination a vulnerability factor for HT and CVD?” study
Prediction was that those with poor heart health would show…
Higher procrastination scores
“Is procrastination a vulnerability factor for HT and CVD?” study
What was found?
People w poor heart health procrastinated more
“Is procrastination a vulnerability factor for HT and CVD?” study
Who conducted this study?
Sirois 2015
“Is procrastination a vulnerability factor for HT and CVD?” study
For every 1 point increase in procrastination, the risk of developing HD increased by…
63%
An Extension of the Procrastination-Health Model
Trait procrastination leads to maladaptive coping, which leads to…
Perceived stress
Reduced Health Behaviours
An Extension of the Procrastination-Health Model
This model posits that procrastination promotes a tendency to cope with stress by (2)
a) Disengaging behaviourally
b) Consumed with self-blame rather than constructive action
An Extension of the Procrastination-Health Model
This model posits that procrastination promotes a tendency to cope with stress by disengaging behaviourally and consuming oneself with self-blame rather than ____________
Constructive action
An Extension of the Procrastination-Health Model
This model posits that procrastination promotes a tendency to cope with stress by disengaging behaviourally and consuming oneself with ________ rather than constructive action
Self blame
This model posits that procrastination promotes a tendency to cope with stress by disengaging behaviourally and consuming oneself with self-blame rather than constructive action
Extension of the procrastination-health model
An Extension of the Procrastination-Health Model
This model posited that the tendency to self-blame/disengage would be more pronounced in the context of
HT/CVD
An Extension of the Procrastination-Health Model
It was expected that the associations of procrastination with two maladaptive coping strategies would be stronger in ________ than _______
HT/CVD patients
Controls
An Extension of the Procrastination-Health Model
What are the two ‘maladaptive coping strategies’
Behavioural disengagement
Self-blame
Expectations of future health are influenced mainly by _______ and to a lesser extent __________
Fatigue
Personality factors