Question

Role of behaviour in health problems health psychology

Answer 1

Most current models in health psychology assume that stress adversely affects physical health. We re-examined this assumption by reviving extensive data from the literature and form 6 samples of our own,in which we collected measures of personality health,fitness, stress and current emotional functioning . Result indicate that self-report health measures reflect a pervasive mood deposition of NA ,self report stress scales also contain a substantial NA component . However NA is correlated with health complaint scales, it is not only strongly related to actuals etc. Thus will act as a general nuisance factor in health research. Because self report measures of both stress and health both contain a significant NA component , correlations between such measures likely overestimate the true association between health and stress. Result domeanstrate the importance of including different types of health measures in health psychology research.