Authors: Linda Cameron, Howard Leventhal
ISBN-13: 9780415297011, ISBN-10: 041529701X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: January 2003
Edition: New Edition
Self-regulation theory focuses on the ways in which individuals direct and monitor their activities and emotions in order to attain their goals. It plays an increasingly important role in health psychology research.
The Self-regulation of Health and Illness Behaviour presents an up-to-date account of the latest developments in the field. Individual contributions cover a wide range of issues including representational beliefs about chronic illness, cultural influences on illness representations, the role of anxiety and defensive denial in health-related experiences and behaviours, the contribution of personality, and the social dynamics underlying gender differences in adaptation to illness. Particular attention is given to the implications for designing effective health interventions and messages. Integrating theoretical and empirical developments, this text provides both researchers and professionals with a comprehensive review of self-regulation and health.
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1 | Self-regulation, health, and illness: an overview | 1 |
Pt. I | Theoretical foundations | 15 |
2 | Goals and confidence as self-regulatory elements underlying health and illness behavior | 17 |
3 | The common-sense model of self-regulation of health and illness | 42 |
4 | Personality and self-regulation in health and disease: toward an integrative perspective | 66 |
Pt. II | Representations of illness and health actions | 95 |
5 | Representations of chronic illness | 97 |
6 | Representational beliefs about functional somatic syndromes | 119 |
7 | Treatment perceptions and self-regulation | 138 |
Pt. III | Emotional processes | 155 |
8 | Anxiety, cognition, and responses to health threats | 157 |
9 | Defensive denial, affect, and the self-regulation of health threats | 184 |
Pt. IV | The social and cultural context | 205 |
10 | Carer perceptions of chronic illness | 207 |
11 | How gender stereotypes influence self-regulation of cardiac health care-seeking and adaptation | 220 |
12 | Culture and illness representation | 242 |
Pt. V | Applications and interventions | 255 |
13 | Self-regulatory interventions for improving the management of chronic illness | 257 |
14 | Message frames and illness representations: implications for interventions to promote and sustain healthy behavior | 278 |
15 | Self-regulation and decision-making about cancer screening | 297 |
16 | Self-regulation and genetic testing: theory, practical considerations, and interventions | 314 |
Index | 332 |