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：:This longitudinal study was conducted among 102 women with non-metastasic breast cancer to identify the time evolution and prevalence of distress at specific times through diagnosis and treatment of disease: preliminary diagnosis, surgery, definitive diagnosis and chemotherapy. Additionally, the study aimed to examine...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Andreu Y,Galdón MJ,Durá E,Martínez P,Pérez S,Murgui S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most research on illness representations explores how patients view single conditions, but many patients report more than one long-term condition (known as multimorbidity). It is not known how multimorbidity impacts on patient illness representations. This exploratory qualitative study examined patients' representatio...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Bower P,Harkness E,Macdonald W,Coventry P,Bundy C,Moss-Morris R

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:New genetic tests reveal risks for multiple conditions simultaneously, although little is understood about the psychological factors that affect testing uptake. We assessed a conceptual model called the multiplex genetic testing model (MGTM) using structural equation modelling. The MGTM delineates worry, perceived sev...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Wade CH,Shiloh S,Woolford SW,Roberts JS,Alford SH,Marteau TM,Biesecker BB

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The narratives of those with hepatitis C were viewed through the lens of Corbin and Strauss' [Corbin, J., & Strauss, A. (1988). Unending work and care: Managing chronic illness at home. The Jossey-Bass health series and The Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.] self-managem...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Fry M,Bates G

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explores the lived experience of anorexia nervosa from the perspective of those who use pro-recovery websites for eating disorders. Fourteen people participated in an online focus group or an e-interview. Data were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Participants described their disorde...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Williams S,Reid M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study tested the direct effect of watching thin ideal children's television on body satisfaction in preadolescent girls (6-8 years old). A within-subject design was used in which girls (N = 51) were tested three times. They watched television clips in random order containing either (1) thin ideal animated charact...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Anschutz DJ,Engels RC,Van Strien T

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to test whether maternal smoking-specific communication and parental smoking related to smoking cognitions (i.e. attitude, self-efficacy and social norm) derived from the Theory of Planned Behaviour in association with smoking onset during preadolescence. A total of 1478 pairs of mothers and ...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Hiemstra M,Otten R,van Schayck OC,Engels RC

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：: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：: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：:This study investigated the sleep hygiene behaviour of university students within the framework of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB [Ajzen, I. (1991). The theory of planned behavior. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 50, 179-211.]), and examined the predictive validity of additional variables i...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Kor K,Mullan BA

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：: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：:Trait self-control is related to a number of positive outcomes, including mental health, interpersonal success, academic success and health-related behaviours. This study sought to explore the relationships between self-control, reports of mental and physical health symptoms and coping styles. The results revealed tha...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Boals A,Vandellen MR,Banks JB

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Implicit attitudes, evaluations that can occur without effort, quickly and without conscious intent, have been shown to predict self-reported diets and objectively measured food choices within the laboratory. We present two studies which extend the literature by demonstrating that implicit attitudes predict objective ...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Prestwich A,Hurling R,Baker S

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：:The aim of this study was to find out the predictors of depressive symptoms of mothers of children with leukaemia. The potential predictors were chosen in the light of the caregiver stress model [Pearlin, Mullan, Semple, and Skaff, 1990. Caregiving and the stress process: An overview of concepts and their measures. Th...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Demirtepe-Saygılı D,Bozo O

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Very little is known about the reasoning underlying beliefs in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). This study examined whether CAM beliefs can be better explained with intuitive reasoning, paranormal beliefs and ontological confusions of physical, biological and mental phenomena than with 12 variables that h...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Lindeman M

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Among couples coping with cancer diagnosis, the effects of gender, role (patient vs. spouse) and patient relationship status (single vs. partnered) on quality of life (QoL) have been investigated with inconsistent results. The present study examined the impact of gender, role and relationship status ...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Kuenzler A,Hodgkinson K,Zindel A,Bargetzi M,Znoj HJ

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of a tailored, web-based intervention communicating the risks of sexually transmitted infections (STI) for heterosexual young adults was examined in a randomised, controlled trial. The main aims of the relationship-oriented intervention were to influence risk perceptions and to promote (maintenance of) co...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Mevissen FE,Ruiter RA,Meertens RM,Zimbile F,Schaalma HP

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines the extent to which self-reported emotional eating is a predictor of unhealthy snack consumption or, alternatively, an expression of beliefs about the relation between emotions and eating derived from concerns about eating behaviour. Three studies were conducted. Study 1 (N = 151) and Study 2 (N ...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Adriaanse MA,de Ridder DT,Evers C

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to explore the lived experience of assuming the primary caregiver role in a group of spouses of individuals living with a traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) (injuries ranged from paraplegia to quadriplegia). Individual in-depth interviews were conducted with 11 participants who were both the spouse an...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Dickson A,O'Brien G,Ward R,Allan D,O'Carroll R

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A partial latent structural regression analysis was used to evaluate the influence of perceived stress and coping resources on depression following acute coronary syndromes (ACS) in a sample of 113 participants (25 females and 88 males with a mean age of 57.61 years (SD = 12.63). Out of them, 55 participants were Aust...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Di Benedetto M,Len Burns G,Lindner H,Kent S

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study examines the Theory of Planned Behaviour's (TPB) ability to predict marijuana use among young women who experienced a premarital pregnancy before the age of 18 years, using longitudinal data. The validity of the TPB assumption that all other variables work through TPB constructs is also tested. Indic...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Morrison DM,Lohr MJ,Beadnell BA,Gillmore MR,Lewis S,Gilchrist L

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined associations between illness representation dimensions specified by the self-regulation model, coping and mood in recently diagnosed gynaecological cancer patients. Participants were 61 patients recruited from a specialist outpatient gynaecology clinic. Patients completed a survey measuring their c...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Gould RV,Brown SL,Bramwell R

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current National Health Service policy advocates screening to identify individuals at 'high risk' of cardio-vascular disease (CHD) in primary care. This article utilizes the work of Radley to explore how 'high risk' of CHD patients make sense of their new risk status. Results are presented here from a nested qualitati...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Farrimond H,Saukko PM,Qureshi N,Evans PH

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the theoretical context of the Theory of Planned Behaviour, this study examined whether work has a disruptive influence on people's ability to carry out their daily intentions to exercise, and whether daily planning helps overcome this. A daily questionnaire was completed by 42 employees for 14 days. A brief dai...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Payne N,Jones F,Harris PR

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The narrative responses of 32 people with AIDS or cancer with survival prognoses of 6 months to a year to monthly interview questions about their daily lives were analysed with a team-based qualitative methodology. Two groups emerged: (a) a Maintained Lifeworld Group characterised by one or more of the following: cont...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Wrubel J,Acree M,Goodman S,Folkman S

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The utility of emotional approach coping (EAC), or expressing and processing emotions, has been equivocal for men. Gender role conflict, or the negative cognitive, emotional and behavioural consequences associated with male gender role socialisation, likely shape coping responses and may negatively affect the efficacy...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Hoyt MA

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study used multiple theoretical approaches simultaneously to predict an objectively measured clinical behaviour. The six theoretical approaches were: The Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), Social Cognitive Theory (SCT), Common Sense Self-Regulation Model (CS-SRM), Operant Learning Theory (OLT), Action Planning (A...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Bonetti D,Johnston M,Clarkson J,Turner S

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Implementation intentions planning in advance the situation in which one will act, have been proposed to be an effective self-regulatory technique for changing health behaviour. Encouraging people to receive text message reminders of their implementation intentions should enhance their strength and, thus, it was predi...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Prestwich A,Perugini M,Hurling R

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：:Benefit finding is a meaning making construct that has been shown to be related to adjustment in people with MS and their carers. This study investigated the dimensions, stability and potency of benefit finding in predicting adjustment over a 12 month interval using a newly developed Benefit Finding in Multiple Sclero...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Pakenham KI,Cox S

更新日期：2009-04-01 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：:Action planning is assumed to mediate between intentions and health behaviours. Moreover, intentions are assumed to moderate the planning-behaviour relation, because people with high intentions are more likely to enact their plans. The present studies extend these suppositions by integrating both assumptions to a nove...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Wiedemann AU,Schüz B,Sniehotta F,Scholz U,Schwarzer R

更新日期：2009-01-01 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 investigated whether Negative Affectivity (NA) causes bias in self-report measures of activity limitations or whether NA has a real, non-artifactual association with activity limitations. The Symptom Perception Hypothesis (NA negatively biases self-reporting), Disability Hypothesis (activity limitations cau...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Powell R,Johnston M,Johnston DW

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dominant theories of health behavior posit that social-cognitive and conative variables are sufficient to explain health behavior tendencies. The current studies challenge this assumption in two ways: (1) by demonstrating that unique variance in health protective behavior is predictable by knowing about individual dif...

journal_title：Psychology & health

authors： Hall PA,Fong GT,Epp LJ,Elias LJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00