Social psychology and health
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Social psychology and health
（Mapping social psychology / series editor: Tony Manstead）
Open University Press, 1995
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-274) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This text discusses major topics of health psychology from a social psychological perspective. It addresses two major factors detrimental to health and well-being, namely health-impairing behaviours and stressful life events, and argues for an integrative approach to reduce risk factors.
Table of Contents
- Changing conceptions of health and illness
- determinants of health behaviour - a social psychological analysis
- beyond persuasion - the modification of health behaviour
- behaviour and health - excessive appetites
- behaviour and health - self-protection
- stress and health
- moderators in the stress-health relationship
- the role of social psychology in health
- conclusion.
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