(P/B) PREDICTING HEALTH BEHAVIOUR

Παρουσίαση

This popular, established text has been expanded to include the most up-to-date research on social cognition models and health behaviours. This edition takes account of important developments in the field, and features:
Two completely new chapters on implementation intentions and stage models - Updated work on the health belief model, protection motivation theory, social cognitive theory, and the theory of planned behaviour - New material on using theories to change health behaviours.
Providing the theoretical background and examples of how to apply the most common social cognition models to health behaviours, this book thoroughly examines how to: Assess the advantages and disadvantages of using each of these models - Appropriately apply each model in practice - Adequately analyze and report the results - Apply the models to change health behaviour.
Predicting Health Behaviour boasts many of the leading names in the field and provides key reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, health promoters, health psychologists and others assessing health behaviour. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

List of Contributors
Preface
Predicting health behaviour: A social cognition approach
The health belief model
Protection motivation theory
Social cognitive theory
Theory of planned behaviour and health behaviour
Stage theories of health behaviour
Implementation intentions and health behaviours
Predicting and changing health hehaviour: Future directions
Author Index
Index