Change in subjective social status following HIV diagnosis and associated effects on mental and physical health among HIV-positive gay men in Australia.

abstract：:Objective: A taxonomy of ninety-three functionally different behaviour change techniques (BCTs) has been identified. However, it is not fully clear how these and other theory-based techniques are applied in the day-to-day practice of people delivering health behaviour change interventions. This study examines feedback...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Ryan K,Murphy LE,Linehan C,Dockray S

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on adaptive human behaviour often emphasizes goal attainment, alongside optimism, self-efficacy, and persistence. Recently, it has been suggested that giving up personal goals when the latter are unattainable is equally important. The present study extends previous findings to a clinical population of multipl...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Neter E,Litvak A,Miller A

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Infertility is a significant concern for people with cancer and fertility preservation is often recommended. However, uptake of preservation interventions remains low. In this study, we examined how people with cancer construct their subjectivity - their sense of self - in relation to decision making and proc...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Parton C,Ussher JM,Perz J

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The present study examined whether having high self-esteem or a self-compassionate perspective help mitigate the impact of daily social rejection on negative affect and restrictive eating behaviours. DESIGN:Following a baseline survey assessing self-esteem and self-compassion, 121 college women completed onl...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Beekman JB,Stock ML,Howe GW

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined whether depressive symptoms mediated the association between coping strategies and quality of life (QoL) in a sample of hypertensive patients, and the prospective contribution of depressive symptoms and coping strategies in the prediction of their QoL. One hundred and fifty patients (50% males and ...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Rueda B,Pérez-García AM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Implementation intentions (if-then plans) are helpful to health behaviour change. As these plans specify only one goal-directed behaviour for one specific situation, however, their effectiveness may be limited when a planned behaviour is impossible to execute in situ. The present research examines whether and...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Vinkers CD,Adriaanse MA,Kroese FM,de Ridder DT

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degree of accuracy with which physicians understand their patients' views may be of central importance for promoting self-care in the majority of chronic illnesses and in type 2 diabetes in particular. The objectives of this study were to measure the accuracy of the general practitioners' understanding of the pati...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Sultan S,Attali C,Gilberg S,Zenasni F,Hartemann A

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important consideration that needs adding to discussions of patient choice and whether or not men are reluctant to use primary care services is that many frequent attenders are male. The aim of this article is to explore how male frequent attenders construct decisions to use or not use health-care services. This is...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Branney P,Witty K,Bagnall AM,South J,White A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reported study compared the efficacy of three self-affirmation manipulations in reducing defensive processing and instigating behaviour change in response to personally relevant information about the health risks of sunbathing. White female sunbathers (N = 162) were recruited on a beach in the south of England. Pa...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Jessop DC,Simmonds LV,Sparks P

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This secondary analysis study examined the effects of a 6-week theory-based planning and mHealth text message intervention targeting workplace sitting time on health-related quality of life and work performance in office workers. DESIGN:Office-working adults (Mage=45.18 ± 11.33 years) were randomised into ei...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Rollo S,Prapavessis H

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:to access the cognitions of adults with type 2 diabetes whilst completing items on the Illness Perceptions Questionnaire-Revised (IPQ-R). To determine whether these cognitions are congruent with the meaning of items and subscales as interpreted by researchers and clinicians using the IPQ-R and to identify th...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： McCorry NK,Scullion L,McMurray CM,Houghton R,Dempster M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: To examine how the association between psychological stress and ambulatory heart rate varies in the weeks before and after a planned vacation. We hypothesized that the impact of stress on heart rate would weaken in the weeks leading up to the vacation and return to normal levels in the weeks following the v...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Hruska B,Pressman SD,Bendinskas K,Gump BB

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study applied the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) to the prediction of breast self-examination (BSE) intentions and behaviour, and tested whether the frequency of past behaviour and context stability moderates intention-behaviour and habit-behaviour relations. Seventy-seven females completed measures of the TPB...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Norman P,Cooper Y

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We examined how 'smoker' and 'non-smoker' self- and group-identities and socio-economic status (SES) may predict smoking behaviour and responses to antismoking measures (i.e., the Dutch smoking ban in hospitality venues). We validated a measure of responses to the smoking ban. DESIGN:Longitudinal online surv...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Meijer E,Gebhardt WA,Dijkstra A,Willemsen MC,Van Laar C

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: The incidence of skin cancer can be reduced by increasing sun protective behaviours. Based on the Common-Sense Model and the Intervention Mapping approach, a brief intervention targeting illness representations about skin cancer to increase the intention to conduct sun protective behaviours was developed an...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Vollmann M,Engelhardt G,Salewski C

更新日期：2020-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study's purpose was to investigate changes in perceived overprotection - a problematic aspect of close relationships - over time in relationship to instrumental support receipt and vision rehabilitation service use in a sample of older adults with vision impairment. METHODS:Participants were 584 older ...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Cimarolli VR,Boerner K,Reinhardt JP,Horowitz A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In later life, optimistic health appraisals promote well-being and survival, whereas pessimistic appraisals can be harmful. This study contrasted subjective health (SH) appraisals with objective health (OH) to identify realists, whose ratings were congruent (SH = OH), distinguishing them from health pessimists (SH < O...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Ruthig JC,Chipperfield JG,Payne BJ

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occupational skin disease (OSD) is common, associated with poor prognosis and poses a significant burden to the individual and society. We applied the theory of planned behaviour (TPB), the prototype-willingness model (PWM) and the health action process approach (HAPA) to the prediction and explanation of occupational...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Matterne U,Diepgen TL,Weisshaar E

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The National Human Genome Research Institute has emphasised community engagement and public dialogue in the U.S. on issues related to genetics. This study examines how online discussions among the U.S. public directly or indirectly influence psychosocial constructs of the Theory of Planned Behavior, including...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Kim SC,Cappella JN,Price V

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Traditional models of health behaviour focus on the roles of cognitive, personality and social-cognitive constructs (e.g. executive function, grit, self-efficacy), and give less attention to the process by which these constructs interact in the moment that a health-relevant choice is made. Health psychology n...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Berkman ET

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study explored how two measures of mother-adolescent dissimilarity in illness representations relate to negative emotional adjustment in mothers and adolescents. Eighty-four adolescents with type 1 diabetes (age 11.5-17.5) and their mothers completed the Revised Illness Perceptions Questionnaire and measures of ne...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Olsen B,Berg CA,Wiebe DJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study developed an HIV risk reduction intervention for people living with HIV (PLWH) obtaining care at primary healthcare clinics in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa by (1) conducting elicitation research to understand the dynamics of risk behaviour among PLWH, (2) modifying an existing HIV risk reduction intervention...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Cornman DH,Christie S,Shepherd LM,MacDonald S,Amico KR,Smith LR,Shuper PA,Adelaja A,Mahlase G,Fröhlich JA,Pillay S,Lalloo UG,Fisher WA,Fisher JD

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study evaluates the role of distinct components of nicotine dependence (craving, withdrawal, behavioural dependence) in comparison to smoking-related cognitions (attitudes, perceived social approval, self-efficacy) in adolescent smoking cessation. In the process towards smoking cessation, we distinguish be...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Schuck K,Otten R,Engels RC,Kleinjan M

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Younger women diagnosed with cancer often face compromised fertility as a result of their treatment. However, previous research has adopted a biomedical model of fertility and utilised hypothetico-deductive research methods which have not allowed for full exploration of women's subjectivity. This study explored younge...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Dryden A,Ussher JM,Perz J

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To understand women's experiences of coping with endometriosis, and impact on their lives. DESIGN:Women accessed an online questionnaire through a U.K.-based endometriosis charity website. METHODS:Thirty-four women, aged 22-56 years, with self-reported medically-diagnosed endometriosis, 30 of whom were Whit...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Grogan S,Turley E,Cole J

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Communication of cancer information is an important element of cancer control, but cancer fear may lead to information avoidance, especially when coping is low. We examined the association between cancer fear and cancer information avoidance, and tested whether this was exacerbated by psychosocial stress. DE...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Vrinten C,Boniface D,Lo SH,Kobayashi LC,von Wagner C,Waller J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships between worry and perceptions of likelihood and severity were evaluated across eight common diseases. Individual and disease variability in worry and perceptions were examined. 294 participants were recruited through the Multiplex Initiative, in which a genetic susceptibility test for eight common di...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Shiloh S,Wade CH,Roberts JS,Alford SH,Biesecker BB

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Individuals with obesity are often recommended weight loss for their health; however, the amount of weight loss that is recommended varies. Lay people's beliefs about weight loss could influence the types of behaviours they view as necessary for people with obesity. The present study explored lay beliefs rega...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Black C,Vartanian LR,Faasse K

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of the present work was to examine the association of depression and marital status, with the long-term prognosis of acute coronary syndrome (ACS), among a Greek sample of cardiac patients. METHODS:From October 2003 to September 2004, a sample of 2172 consecutive ACS patients from 6 hospitals was en...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Notara V,Panagiotakos DB,Papataxiarchis E,Verdi M,Michalopoulou M,Tsompanaki E,Kogias Y,Stravopodis P,Papanagnou G,Zombolos S,Stergiouli I,Mantas Y,Pitsavos C

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nearly half of all cancer deaths are attributable to preventable causes, primarily unhealthy behaviours such as tobacco use, alcohol use and overeating. In this review, we argue that people engage in these behaviours, at least in part, as a means of regulating their affective states. To better understand why people en...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： O'Leary D,Suri G,Gross JJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00