Social Psychology And Health

2. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-335-23288-8
Verlag: Open University Press

Buch, Englisch

* Which behaviour patterns are detrimental to health?
* Why do people engage in such behaviour even if they know about its negative effects?
* How can people be influenced to change their behaviour?
* What do we mean by stressful life events and which mechanisms mediate their impact on health?

The second edition of this highly successful textbook has been extensively revised. Much new material has been added based on new research which has been done in the last five years, in particular drawing on the author's own research into obesity and sexual risk behaviour. Many of the epidemiological examples and more than a third of the references have been updated. It is essentially a new book which will make an important contribution to the literature.

Social Psychology and Health discusses major topics of health psychology from a social psychological perspective. This approach reflects the significant changes which have taken place in conceptions of health and illness during recent decades and the move away from purely biomedical models of illness. In line with this broadening perspective, health psychology has become a dominant force in the health sciences, a field to which social psychological theory and research has much to offer.

The book addresses two major factors detrimental to health and well-being, namely health-impairing behaviours and stressful life events, and argues for an integrative approach that combines psychological, economic and environmental interventions to reduce behavioural risk factors.

This is a key textbook for second and third year undergraduate courses and for postgraduate courses in social and health psychology. It will be useful for students of health and social welfare and it should provide an essential reference for health professionals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stroebe, Wolfgang

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Gesundheitspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
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 of the stress-health relationship
The role of social psychology in health promotion
Glossary
References
Author index
Subject index

Über Autor(innen)

Wolfgang Stroebe is Professor of Social, Organizational and Health Psychology at the University of Utrecht. He is scientific director of the Research Institute for Psychology and Health, incorporating the leading health researchers from five Dutch universities. He has previously held academic positions in the United States, England, and Germany. He has been President of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology and is a Fellow of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology. He is co-editor of the European Review of Social Psychology and has written many scholarly books, chapters and articles on topics in social and health psychology.