abstract：:Undergraduate women (N = 143) completed self-reports on exercise behavior, body orientation, body appreciation, and body-related talk. Results showed that conversations about weight loss/dieting and conversations about exercise differentially predicted body appreciation. Importantly, multiple regression analyses showe...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Wasylkiw L,Butler NA

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the differences between normal-weight and overweight adolescents in psychopathology, social support and emotional competences, and the role of social support in the relationship between psychopathology and weight. We examined a clinical group of 83 overweight/obese adolescents, a community group o...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Freitas-Rosa M,Gonçalves S,Antunes H

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explored the significance of religious faith/coping and spirituality and existential considerations reported during hospitalisation on depressive symptoms at 6-month follow-up and addressed patients' perceived influence of their faith among 97 consecutive acute coronary syndrome patients (72.2% male patients; mean ...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Bekke-Hansen S,Pedersen CG,Thygesen K,Christensen S,Waelde LC,Zachariae R

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Internet forums represent a useful but understudied resource to understand psychosocial aspects of living with systemic lupus erythematosus. This study was aimed to describe the demand/supply of social support through the Internet in relation with the description of personal illness experiences. All the posts (118) fr...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Mazzoni D,Cicognani E

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on the effects of guided imagery in patients with fibromyalgia show varying results. This randomized controlled trial (n = 65) aims to give more insight into the effects on pain, functional status, and self-efficacy. Daily pain was assessed with a pain diary using a Visual Analogue Scale. Functional status and...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Verkaik R,Busch M,Koeneman T,van den Berg R,Spreeuwenberg P,Francke AL

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to explore the experience of renal patients undergoing dialysis treatment focusing on beliefs about their illness, prescribed treatment and the challenge of adherence. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to analyse the accounts of seven haemodialysis patients. Patients have a range of bel...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Karamanidou C,Weinman J,Horne R

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nurses, nurse's aides, and physicians were presented with vignettes describing elderly patients and were asked to assess their level of pain from four external cues (facial expression, verbalizations, avoidance of movements and positions, and interpersonal contact) in three conditions: when the illness was not known, ...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Igier V,Sorum PC,Mullet E

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explored the processes of significance about the risk communication in prenatal/preconception setting within 1 month to the end of genetic counselling intervention. Participants were all attending a programme of Cardiomyology and Medical Genetics in Naples, Italy, for the first time. Transcripts of 18 semi-...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Zaccaro A,Freda MF

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the effect of a smoking health message on smokers' comparative optimism. Two groups watched an anti-smoking scenario, with one group imagining being part of the scenario. Participants, including controls, completed comparative optimism ratings for four smoking-related illnesses. The interventio...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Myers LB

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freire's theory of social change informs analysis of youth-focused participatory research, with researchers describing links between participation and young people's critical thinking. There is less analysis of how youth move from the safe social space of a participatory research project to take health-promoting actio...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Vaughan C

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patient and public involvement in health research, including mental health research, is promoted by research funders in England. However, it is poorly conceptualised. One argument is that patient and public involvement in research is an ethical imperative because those who research is for should have a stake in how it...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Rose D

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Generalized anxiety disorder prevalence and comorbidity with depression in coronary heart disease patients remain unquantified. Systematic searching of Medline, Embase, SCOPUS and PsycINFO databases revealed 1025 unique citations. Aggregate generalized anxiety disorder prevalence (12 studies, N = 3485) was 10.94 per c...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Tully PJ,Cosh SM

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：:Social capital refers to various levels of social relationships formed through social networks. Measurement differences have lead to imprecise measurement. A meta-analysis of eligible studies assessing the bivariate association between social capital and self-reported health and all-cause mortality was performed. Thir...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Gilbert KL,Quinn SC,Goodman RM,Butler J,Wallace J

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern footwear has been associated with the development of foot pain and pathology in the ageing adult. Yet this foot health issue does not seem to alter the footwear purchases made by younger women. In total, 162 teenage girls were questioned regarding shoes purchased over a 6-month period. The results indicated tha...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Branthwaite H,Chockalingam N,Grogan S,Jones M

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of casual sexual encounters is increasing on college campuses. To decrease sexual risk behavior, information used to judge sexual risk in others needs to be identified. Women rated male targets on willingness to have unprotected sex with the target and likelihood that the target has a sexually transmitted inf...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Lennon CA,Kenny DA

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community-based young offenders are at high risk of self-harm and unlikely to be in contact with mental health services. Semi-structured interviews with community youth justice staff and a content analysis of 50 records of self-harm not only revealed staff concerns about the impact of stigma on disclosure and service ...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Knowles SE,Townsend E,Anderson MP

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined adults' self-reported understanding and formatting preferences of medical statistics, confidence in self-care and ability to obtain health advice or information, and perceptions of patient-health-care provider communication measured through dual survey modes (random digital dial and mail). Even whi...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Wallace LS,Chisolm DJ,Abdel-Rasoul M,DeVoe JE

更新日期：2013-08-01 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：:The salutogenic model has led to revolutionary changes in the study of health. In recent years, a large amount of research has been carried out on the relationship between sense of coherence and health, but relatively little is known about sense of coherence in adolescence. This study is a systematic review of the stu...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Rivera F,García-Moya I,Moreno C,Ramos P

更新日期：2013-06-01 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：: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：:The present study explored the role of attachment insecurity in cervical screening behaviors and barriers in a sample of 257 female undergraduates. Information on attachment dimensions as well as attachment style was collected. Attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance were associated with decreased likelihood of ha...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Hill EM,Gick ML

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experiential accounts of HIV-positive gay men. Participants took part in open-ended interviews. Three key-related recurrent themes are presented: 'Disclosure, deliberation and the abject other'; 'Disclosure, care and the valued other' and 'Disclosu...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Flowers P,Davis MD

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：: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：:The aim of this study was to examine the relation between the public perceptions and reactions to the pandemic influenza A(H1N1) in Crete, Greece. It was conducted in two phases: at the early phase of the outbreak and during the peak. The Common Sense Model was used as an appropriate theoretical framework. Participant...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Karademas EC,Bati A,Karkania V,Georgiou V,Sofokleous S

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Findings from five community surveys suggest that the depressive symptom scores of African-Americans are the same as, or lower than, those of Whites. This seems at odds with the minority status hypothesis that predicts higher rates of mental disorders for African-Americans. However, little is known about the role of A...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Archibald PC,Dobson Sydnor K,Daniels K,Bronner Y

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:This study (1) identified the activities that breast cancer survivors report as passionate; (2) examined whether levels of passion differed based on the types of passionate activities reported and; (3) examined the association between harmonious and obsessive passion and emotional well-being. Early post-treatment brea...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Burke SM,Sabiston CM,Vallerand RJ

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual coercion by males poses important ethical, legal and public health challenges. Individual face-to-face structured interviews were conducted among 1656 men who had undergone male initiation and circumcision in rural areas of the Eastern Cape Province. Overall, 8.4 per cent of the participants reported ever havin...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Nyembezi A,Resnicow K,James S,Funani I,Sifunda S,Ruiter RA,van den Borne B,Sanders-Phillips K,Reddy P

更新日期：2012-10-01 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：: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：:Exercise reduces the likelihood of psychological distress, but this may be due to incidental socializing. We gathered information on exercise, social support and three aspects of psychological distress from 583 community-dwelling older adults. Exercise and social support from friends were both associated with lower sc...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： McHugh JE,Lawlor BA

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An implicit association test (IAT) was used to investigate how habit strength, implicit attitudes and fruit consumption interrelate. Fifty-two participants completed a computerized IAT and provided measures of fruit consumption and related habit strength. Implicit attitudes moderated the habit strength-fruit consumpti...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： de Bruijn GJ,Keer M,Conner M,Rhodes RE

更新日期：2012-05-01 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：:Connectedness with nature (CN) is seen as a personal disposition relevant for environmental as well as human health. In five questionnaire studies (N = 547) we systematically investigated the relationship between various operationalizations of well-being and CN. CN was assessed with two different tools in parallel. Al...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Cervinka R,Röderer K,Hefler E

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few qualitative studies have examined the views of adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) regarding psychosocial programme development and content. We conducted focus groups with 13 adolescents with T1DM to explore stressors and gain feedback on adapting a generic coping skills programme. The following preva...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Serlachius A,Northam E,Frydenberg E,Cameron F

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dropout is a frequent problem in face-to-face psychological interventions. However, little is known regarding dropout in computer-based interventions (CBIs). It is important to understand the extent to which children and adolescents drop out of CBIs, so we can ensure that more people complete the programmes to gain ma...

journal_title：Journal of health psychology

authors： Dunn TL,Casey LM,Sheffield J,Newcombe P,Chang AB

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00