Supporting self-efficacy through interactive discussion in online communities of weight loss.

abstract：:This study aims at examining the attachment states of mind in 50 female outpatients with eating disorders compared with 50 matched control participants using the Adult Attachment Interview. Moreover, the differences in attachment states of mind among eating-disordered women with and without borderline personality diso...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Pace CS,Guiducci V,Cavanna D

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guided by vested interest theory, the impact of educating potential organ donors about the beneficial experiences afforded to families of deceased donors was assessed. Participants were informed about these benefits by taking a survey that asked them to indicate both their awareness, and the appeal, of numerous existi...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Siegel JT,Blazek DR,McManus MD,Alvaro EM,Crano WD

更新日期：2019-04-29 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：:Chronic refractory cough patients have persistent, unexplained, treatment-resistant symptoms. Very little is known about non-physiological processes underlying chronic refractory cough or patients' experience of the condition. In all, 14 patients participated in semi-structured interviews. Interviews were based on the...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Hulme K,Dogan S,Parker SM,Deary V

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article tests the utility of self-report and objective assessment of physical activity to predict increased positive affect. Participants wore Fitbit activity trackers and responded to single-item assessments of momentary affect and self-reported physical activity following an experience sampling method protocol....

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： McLean DC,Nakamura J,Csikszentmihalyi M

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gay men with diagnosed HIV can adopt a number of strategies to reduce the risk of transmitting HIV to others, although research has typically focussed on condom use. Interviews with 42 HIV-positive gay men who reported recent engagement in anal intercourse without condoms explored their awareness of sexual risk and th...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Bourne A,Dodds C,Keogh P,Weatherburn P

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to qualitatively examine weight stigma in individuals who exercise frequently. In total, six focus groups, comprising 30 participants aged 18-25 years, were conducted using convenience sampling. All participants were frequent exercisers. Five themes emerged in the data with participants discu...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Flint SW,Reale S

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the mediating effect of self-esteem on the relationship between locus of control and depression among Chinese university students. In all, 457 students (232 men and 225 women) completed measures of locus of control, self-esteem, and depression. Correlational analyses indicated that external locus o...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Yu X,Fan G

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unhealthy behaviors are strongly associated with chronic diseases, disabilities, or mortality. Identifying the predisposing factors that influence on self-care healthy habits will improve an early detection of high-risk groups. Four hundred and sixty-six Spanish young people aged 18-25 years were assessed. Global perc...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Ruiz-Palomino E,Giménez-García C,Ballester-Arnal R,Gil-Llario MD

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The opening sequence of an emergency call influences the efficiency of the ambulance dispatch time. The greeting sequences in 105 calls to a South African emergency service were analysed. Initial results suggested the advantage of a specific two-part opening sequence. An on-site experiment aimed at improving call effi...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Penn C,Koole T,Nattrass R

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertensive individuals represent a "vulnerable" population regarding psychological health. While African Americans are disproportionally burdened with hypertension, pathways predicting their psychological health remain understudied. We examine if discrimination is associated with psychological health, through an ind...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Vargas EA,Chirinos DA,Mahalingam R,Marshall RA,Wong M,Kershaw KN

更新日期：2020-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The Magical Beliefs About Food and Health scale (MFH) was developed to assess individual differences in the tendency to adopt eating and health instructions that many magazines, health care books and food ideologies regard as valid but which obey universal laws of similarity and contagion. In a study of 216 individual...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Lindeman M,Keskivaara P,Roschier M

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, we present an idiographic analysis of a couple's experience of living and coming to terms with age-related macular degeneration. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to explore three joint interviews, conducted over an 18-month period, with a married couple (aged 82 and 77 years) both liv...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Burton AE,Shaw RL,Gibson JM

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine if messages tailored to an individual's regulatory focus (i.e. their tendency to focus on prevention or promotion) increased exercise intentions and behavior in a medically underserved sample. Adult English as a Second Language students (N = 58) were presented with tailored exe...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Martinez JL,Duncan LR,Rivers SE,Latimer AE,Salovey P

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Men have higher rates of premature death than women, and may arguably have higher rates of serious illness. One explanation often suggested to account for this is that men are considered to be stoical about illness and reluctant to seek help for it. This article explores the role of media representations in the constr...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Hodgetts D,Chamberlain K

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explores the mediating effects of repetitive negative thinking in the relationship between perfectionism and adolescent sleep quality. A sample of 1664 Chinese adolescents with a mean age of 15.0 years was recruited, and they completed four measures relating to perfectionism, sleep quality, worry, and rumin...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Lin RM,Xie SS,Yan YW,Chen YH,Yan WJ

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suicide ideation is a sensitive indicator of personal well-being. While ideation occurs in roughly 3 percent of the US population annually, in this study rates are 10 times higher. This article explores the role of social capital in mediating negative life circumstances on ideation for a sample of 161 homeless adults ...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Fitzpatrick KM,Irwin J,Lagory M,Ritchey F

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to analyse emotional distress and concerns related to body image in 712 normal-weight and overweight adolescent girls. A total of 12.3 per cent of the normal-weight girls and 25 per cent of the overweight girls showed extreme weight-control behaviours. In normal-weight adolescents, thei...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Cruz-Sáez S,Pascual A,Salaberria K,Echeburúa E

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of gender and cortisol levels on depression following planned surgery was examined in 95 men and women. Patients were assessed prior to surgery and at one and three months following surgery. Higher cortisol levels conferred greater risk for depression at one and three months following surgery. This effect w...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Pinna K,Cremeans-Smith JK,Greene K,Delahanty DL

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the data of 1314 underprivileged children in Xiushui, China, this study adopted an ecological framework to explore how social capital embedded in family, peer, school, and community interplay and affect the mental health of poor children. Structural equation modeling was employed to verify the hypothesized model...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Li C,Jiang S,Fang X

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Examining interpersonal (physician-patient) communication strategies for promoting walking exercise to patients with type 2 diabetes assigned to primary care clinics, the study evaluated two message design variables--frame and presentation mode--as influencers of communication and adoption success. The single-site, fo...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Ledford CJ

更新日期：2012-10-01 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：:The present study investigates illness perceptions of inflammatory bowel disease patients in an outpatient population, examining whether these illness perceptions are related to disease severity, quality of life and psychological adjustment. A cohort of 102 inflammatory bowel disease outpatients was prospectively enro...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Rochelle TL,Fidler H

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is no question that health psychology needs to be more involved with matters concerning health inequalities and the social injustices associated with media racism, and racism in general. It is recognized that our discipline has the potential to develop and carry out research that can make valuable contributions ...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Estacio EV

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explored the roles of social appearance anxiety and emotional intelligence in the relationship between body esteem and eating-disorder risk among adolescents. A total of 2509 high-school students were sampled to participate in the study. Statistical methods mainly involved descriptive statistics, Bootstrapp...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Li Y

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent to which mental health problems, including current anxiety and depressive symptoms, may co-occur, or are associated, with the acquisition of sexually transmitted infections other than HIV remains largely unexplored among men who have sex with men. In a cross-sectional survey of 8,381 US men who have sex wit...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Downing MJ Jr,Chiasson MA,Hirshfield S

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fear of crime is thought to limit social activity in older people. Sixty older people, recruited via day centres, were given questionnaire-based interviews. A series of questions produced two scales of crime awareness and a scale of perceived crime prevalence. Fear of crime was operationalized through a catastrophizin...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： McKee KJ,Milner C

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain-related cognitive biases have been demonstrated in chronic pain patients, yet despite theoretical predictions are rarely investigated in combination. Combined cognitive biases were explored in individuals with chronic headache ( n = 17) and pain-free controls ( n = 20). Participants completed spatial cueing (atte...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Schoth DE,Parry L,Liossi C

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive body image is defined as healthy body-related attitudes that go beyond the absence of distressful symptoms. A warm and secure relationship with an important other person has been linked with attitudes of acceptance and appreciation toward one's body as well as adaptive eating patterns. This study tested wheth...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Homan KJ,Cavanaugh BN

更新日期：2013-12-01 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