Narrative meaning making and integration: Toward a better understanding of the way falling ill influences quality of life.

abstract：:The associations of sense making and benefit finding with depressive symptoms were examined among patient and caregiver pairs coping with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Benefit finding, but not sense making, was associated with fewer depressive symptoms for both patients and caregivers. Patient and caregiver pairs whe...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Mock S,Boerner K

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adolescents access information about fitness, including content labelled as #fitspiration, through social media. A total of 77 adolescents (mean age = 12.49; standard deviation = 0.55; girls = 27) participated in semi-structured focus groups to explore their perspectives on #fitspiration and fitness more broadly. Thro...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Bell BT,Deighton-Smith N,Hurst M

更新日期：2019-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explored narrative responses following abnormal Pap tests among Hispanic migrant farmworkers ( N = 18; ages 22-50 years) via in-depth interviews in Florida. Qualitative analyses utilized health literacy domains (obtain/process/understand/communicate) as a conceptual framework. Participants described how the...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Vamos CA,Lockhart E,Vázquez-Otero C,Thompson EL,Proctor S,Wells KJ,Daley EM

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：:We examined the relationships among age, health, beliefs, and possible-selves. Using a new approach based on health-related possible-selves, young-old and older individuals were separated into specific health types: (1) improvement or maintenance health hopes and (2) preventable or unpreventable health fears. The youn...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： McGinty HL,Dark-Freudeman A,West RL

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Participant Action Research process was carried out with individuals affected by Inflammatory Bowel Disease, more specifically Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis. The results show evidence of a transformation of social representations of disease. 'Normalization' is the central component of the transformation, in...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Krause M

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This longitudinal study evaluated the mediating role of sense of control during labour in the association between anxiety and depression levels during pregnancy and postpartum posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms. Participants were 57 women. Anxiety and depression were assessed during pregnancy; sense of control and...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Brandão T,Brites R,Nunes O,Pires M,Hipólito J

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibromyalgia is associated with widespread pain, depression, and declines in physical functioning. The purpose of this study was to examine the trajectory of these symptoms over time related to physical activity adoption and maintenance via motivational interviewing versus education, to increase physical activity. The...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Steiner JL,Bigatti SM,Ang DC

更新日期：2015-07-01 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 project examined whether interpersonal pressure to be muscular predicted late adolescents' pursuit of muscularity. Participants were 199 adolescents (16-19 years), mothers (n = 175), and friends (n = 159), assessed at two annual times. Pressure to be muscular was assessed with adolescents', mothers', and friends'...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Shomaker LB,Furman W

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports a language analysis of breast cancer patients' posts in an online support group. Adopting web-scraping techniques, the study analyzed 27,078 online posts contributed by 1443 users along multiple linguistic dimensions to investigate the trajectory of the patients' psychosocial adaptation of the dis...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Chen M,Zhao L

更新日期：2020-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Questionnaires concerning cervical screening behaviour and attitudes were completed by a convenience sample of 70 female students aged 20-25 years. Based on the Prochaska-DiClemente definitions of 'stages of change', participants were classified into precontemplation, contemplation, action and maintenance groups accor...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Eiser JR,Cole N

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This longitudinal study applied a stress and coping model to examine the differential pathways of perceived positive and negative health behavior changes. Participants with congestive heart failure completed self-report measures of psychological resources, coping strategies, and perceived behavior changes and were ass...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Chaves C,Park CL

更新日期：2016-08-01 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：:Six measures of physiological dysregulation were derived from 11 clinically assessed biomarkers, and related to health outcomes and health behaviors for the Hawaii Personality and Health cohort (N = 470). Measures summing extreme scores at one tail of the biomarker distributions performed better than ones summing both...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Hampson SE,Goldberg LR,Vogt TM,Hillier TA,Dubanoski JP

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating roles of trait anxiety and daily sleep quality between childhood abuse and physical health issues later in adulthood by utilizing the Midlife in the United States Study (n = 281; Mage = 56.38 in wave 2 and Mage = 62.57 in wave 3). Individuals who reported a hi...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Tracy EL,Tracy CT,Kim JJ,Yang R,Kim E

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a sample of college-aged male athletes (n = 56) and nonathletes (n = 43), negative and positive beliefs were tested as mediators of the relationship between Drive for Muscularity (DM) and use of performance enhancing substances (PES). Results showed that the Muscularity Behavior (MB) and Muscularity-oriented Bod...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Dodge T,Litt D,Seitchik A,Bennett S

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is inadequate understanding about why people might not own pets. This qualitative study asked eight elderly women and men to discuss why they do not have a pet, whether pets were deemed beneficial to health, and whether they had plans for future pet ownership. Reasons for not owning a pet were Emotional or Pragm...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Chur-Hansen A,Winefield H,Beckwith M

更新日期：2008-11-01 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：:Although nature relatedness is considered a positive characteristic, its relationship to constructs involving worries about the negative effects of artificial environmental factors is also feasible. A questionnaire assessing modern health worries, electrosensitivity, somatosensory amplification, spirituality, and natu...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Dömötör Z,Szemerszky R,Köteles F

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The views of 32 women with iatrogenic Hepatitis C on its impact on their sense of wellbeing were elicited through focus groups. The views obtained were analysed using 'interpretative phenomenological analysis'. Accounts of profound fatigue, reactive depression, and deterioration in cognitive functioning predominated. ...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Dunne EA,Quayle E

更新日期：2001-12-01 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：:This study aims at examining whether adolescent girls diagnosed with anorexia nervosa and their parents differ in perceiving the different aspects of family functioning. Moreover, the discrepancy between adolescent girls and healthy controls on Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales dimensions, family comm...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Laghi F,Pompili S,Zanna V,Castiglioni MC,Criscuolo M,Chianello I,Mazzoni S,Baiocco R

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates how men's body image develops over time. A total of 14 men aged between 45 and 67 years completed in-depth interviews where they discussed their body image since childhood, prompted in some cases by photographs of themselves at different ages that they brought to the interviews. Transcripts wer...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Malik M,Grogan S,Cole J,Gough B

更新日期：2019-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The field of critical psychology is exerting an influence in the way various sub-disciplines within psychology operate. In this article we use a critical psychology framework to review the field of health psychology. Through the use of values, assumptions and practices we review progress in health psychology and offer...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Prilleltensky I,Prilleltensky O

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that people who have suffered a heart attack can hold misconceived or maladaptive beliefs and that these can have a deleterious effect on quality of life and functioning. It has also been noted that clinicians do not routinely elicit these maladaptive beliefs. It is probable that angina sufferers also hold...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Furze G,Bull P,Lewin RJ,Thompson DR

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We derived descriptive characteristics related to habitual sleep duration and insomnia for individuals newly diagnosed with sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome and evaluated how sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome, insomnia, depression, and sleep duration relate to sleepiness and fatigue. In total, 100 participants were divided i...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Fichten CS,Creti L,Rizzo D,Bailes S,Baltzan M,Amsel R,Libman E

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined age differences in support, BMI, and HbA1c among African American patients with type 2 diabetes. Participants were 158 African American adults with type 2 diabetes. Average HbA1c was 1% higher among patients aged 20-49 than patients 60-77, and double the number of younger patients had a BMI ≥35 tha...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Hessler DM,Fisher L,Naranjo D,Masharani U

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interdependencies of Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee members in 222 teaching hospitals were studied by use of the social relations model. Cooperation, influence, frustration and enjoyment were studied among four-person subgroups chosen from the five roles recommended for hospitals by the American Society of Ho...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Bagozzi RP,Ascione FJ,Mannebach MA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poor outcomes for breast cancer in Ghana have been attributed to late presentation of symptoms at biomedical facilities. This study explored factors accounting for delays in initiation of breast cancer treatment at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra. Focus group discussions were conducted with 20 women with breas...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Sanuade OA,Ayettey H,Hewlett S,Dedey F,Wu L,Akingbola T,Ogedegbe G,de-Graft Aikins A

更新日期：2018-11-30 00:00:00