'In two minds'--socially motivated self-harm is perceived as less serious than internally motivated: a qualitative study of youth justice staff.

abstract：:Addressing the need to explore how Native American (NA) elders' subjective health (SH) compares to their objective health (OH; chronic disease conditions), we examined whether: congruence between 8191 NA elders' SH and OH parallels that of non-NA elders; health optimism (SH > OH) is protective and health pessimism (SH...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Ruthig JC,Allery A

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study I used both ethnography and narrative interviews rather than narrative interviews alone to explore 'cultures of dance'. Ethnography provides greater ecological validity because the researcher has the opportunity to participate in the various cultures from which interviewees are recruited. The processes o...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Paulson S

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mixed method was employed to determine how caregivers view preschool children's body size and associated health risks. A survey of 505 caregivers was nested in 10 in-depth case studies of mothers. Based on the International Obesity Task Force calculation of children's weight status, the caregivers who had underweigh...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Chan CM,Wang WC

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:'Race' as identified by skin colour has been traditionally associated with the notion of the Other. In western culture the black man as Other has acted as a type of repository into which white men have projected anxieties about, for example, their sexuality. In psycholog...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Stowell-Smith M,McKeown M

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adults with chronic bleeding disorders report high distress, but it is unclear how distress varies over time. Patients rated their distress on a 10-point scale at two clinic visits. Of 83 patients, roughly one-quarter reported consistent no/low distress (29%), one-quarter reported consistent distress (22%), and half (...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Barry V,Lynch ME,Tran DQ,Antun A,DeBalsi A,Hicks D,Lasseter F,Mattis S,Ribeiro MJ,Stein SF,Kempton CL

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This meta-analysis evaluated the impact of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) on the psychological adjustment of adults with spinal cord injury (SCI). A comprehensive search of six electronic databases identified 10 studies (424 participants) that met the inclusion criteria. Pre- and post-data for participants who recei...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Dorstyn D,Mathias J,Denson L

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determinants of safer sexual behaviors among HIV-infected adult men with hemophilia were examined. A model was proposed that personal adjustment, communication skills, self-efficacy, and perceived advantages of condom use would influence safer sex practices. The model was tested with 181 men with hemophilia and HIV in...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Huszti HC,Parsons JT,Cotton D,Mendoza J,Harlow L,Rich L,Parish KL,Nuss R,Riske B

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This community based cross-sectional study examined the prevalence and factors associated with depression among urban poor in Peninsular Malaysia. The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) was used to determine the presence or absence of depression. The prevalence of depression among the urban poor was 12.3%. Factors s...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Tan KL,Yadav H

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although obesity presents a serious health problem in children, parents often underestimate their children's overweight and obesity status. Therefore, scientific literature was systematically screened through PubMed and PsycINFO to demonstrate the psychological, social, and cultural processes that underlie this evalua...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Hochdorn A,Faleiros VP,Camargo BV,Bousfield AB,Wachelke JF,Quintão IP,Azzolina D,Gregori D

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measures of appearance motivation, obsessive-compulsive tendencies and tanning attitudes and behavior were completed by 175 adults, ages 16-65, who were approached while suntanning. Participants who scored high in both appearance motivation and obsessive-compulsive tendencies most strongly endorsed the importance of h...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Leary MR,Saltzman JL,Georgeson JC

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews the main epistemological approaches within health psychology. It considers the approach based on critical realism and various strategies for linking health psychology with social action. It argues that critical health psychology has a distinct contribution to make in promoting public health as par...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Murray M,Poland B

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined the cognitive processes by which perceived locus of causality influences participation in leisure time physical activity. Based on the theoretical tenets of self-determination theory, it was hypothesized that deliberative modes of information processing and past behaviour will account for th...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Chatzisarantis NL,Hagger MS,Biddle SJ,Karageorghis C

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews, critiques and politicises the positivist approaches that presently dominate alcohol advertising health research, and considers the benefits of a culturalist alternative. Positivist research in this area is identified as: (1) atheoretical and methods-driven; (2) restricted in focus, leaving critic...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Cherrington J,Chamberlain K,Grixti J

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social constructions of men towards the availability of a male hormonal contraceptive, the 'male pill', were explored. A qualitative approach applying semi-structured interviews and scenarios with 22 men (mean age 35 years) from the North East of England revealed two core constructs and six sub-constructs using a Them...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Dismore L,Van Wersch A,Swainston K

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With a substantial number of individuals diagnosed with Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS) and the preponderance of research focused on the medical and paramedical issues, the psychological and mental health sequelae of HAVS are largely neglected within the published literature. A series of focus groups and interviews...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Ayers B,Forshaw M

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV vaccine efficacy trials require the enrolment of large numbers of HIV-negative individuals and thus it is necessary to engage with communities where HIV incidence is high. We identify some of the caveats and pitfalls associated with researching community engagement in the context of HIV vaccine trials. These are a...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Kagee A,De Wet A,Kafaar Z,Lesch A,Swartz L,Newman PA

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How can psychological description orient to an experiential understanding inclusive of and sensitive to situated ontological variability? To do so requires development of theory capable of engaging people in the living of their lives reconciling notions of personhood within the prospective nature of psychosocial actio...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Corcoran T

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obtaining voluntary informed consent for research participation is an ethical imperative, yet there appears to be little consensus regarding what constitutes a voluntary consent decision. An instrument to assess influences on participants' consent decision and perceived voluntariness was developed and piloted in two S...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Mamotte N,Wassenaar D

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim was to clarify how motives influence sun-related behaviour. Participants were 239 adults, mean age 22 years. They completed questionnaire measures of life goals (representing dispositional motives), participatory motives for exposure and for protection, and exposure and protection behaviours. Analysis was by p...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Ingledew DK,Ferguson E,Markland D

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Critical illness places many challenges on the ill and their loved ones. These challenges are even more pronounced when the critically-ill individual is a child. This article provides a very personal narrative account of a mother's use of communication to cope with the many stresses, constraints and symbolic challenge...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Snetsinger WR

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to investigate the mediation effects of both self-esteem and loneliness on the relationship between social support and subjective well-being in drug addicts. In all, 110 participants, all drug addicts from Guangdong Fangcun Brain Hospital, completed the questionnaire. Pearson's correlation anal...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Cao Q,Liang Y

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In April 2009, military bombs stockpiled in Mbagala, Dar es Salaam, exploded uncontrollably, landing in the neighbourhood killing 26 people, injuring about 600 and destroying 9049 homes. This must have been a terrible experience, with psychological consequences. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevale...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Messo IN

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research has demonstrated that positive affect may facilitate illness self-management. This study used a sequential exploratory mixed-methods typology to assess whether a brief writing task designed to boost positive affect (the Best Possible Self protocol) could improve aspects of diabetes self-management, spe...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Gibson B,Umeh KF,Newson L,Davies I

更新日期：2018-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred fifty-nine hemodialysis patients completed questionnaires measuring three interpersonal processes, specifically, family expectations, social support, and negative support, and psychological adjustment as measured by depression, optimism, and quality of life. Follow-up assessments were collected three month...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Symister P

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AIDS risk behavior and attitudes towards safer sex were studied in a sample of 666 African American and 626 European American women. Condom use, AIDS-related knowledge, risk perception, self-efficacy beliefs, attitudes and perceived partner attitudes, and an assertive coping style were analyzed with regard to mean dif...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Schröder KE,Hobfoll SE,Jackson AP,Lavin J

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Generalized perceived powerlessness is an important psychosocial construct that determines a wide range of health behaviors and outcomes. This study has two aims: (1) examine the structure of the newly developed perceived powerlessness scale using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses and (2) assess the scale's...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Lim S,Powell TW,Xue QL,Towe VL,Taylor RB,Ellen JM,Sherman SG

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between negative affectivity (NA, i.e. the Neuroticism trait and transient distress), self-reported medical condition and somatic complaints was assessed in structural equation models also including personality (the Big Five personality domains), socio-demographic, and health behaviour variables. The ...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Vassend O,Skrondal A

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to assess the association of several risk factors for eating disturbances in adolescents. Participants were 448 girls and boys aged 12-15 years. Being female, higher body mass index, internalisation of standard of appearance, perfectionism, body dissatisfaction, number of lifetime addictive behaviours and low...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Gutiérrez T,Espinoza P,Penelo E,Mora M,González ML,Rosés R,Raich RM

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed perceived cancer-related change in 153 recently diagnosed patients. High levels of social support and optimism at the start of chemotherapy predicted higher numbers of perceived positive changes and lower numbers of negative changes nine months later. Higher numbers of perceived gains predicted an increase...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Pinquart M,Fröhlich C,Silbereisen RK

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to assess the association between temperament and metabolic syndrome markers. Cloninger's Temperament and Character Inventory and clinical examination were carried out in 1997 in the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 (N = 4364 respondents). Novelty seeking was positively associated with wais...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Sovio U,King V,Miettunen J,Ek E,Laitinen J,Joukamaa M,Veijola J,Järvelin MR

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00