What factors determine healthy behavior?
Health Psychology: Well-Being in a Diverse World answers this question by introducing and regularly applying research to stress, coping, interventions and health behaviors in today’s world. Speaking directly to students, Regan A. R. Gurung’s conversational voice guides learners through the key determinants of behavior, such as family, environment, ethnicity, and religion. Each chapter delves into the biological foundations of health, presents interdisciplinary case studies, and integrates personality and social psychological theories, fostering a comprehensive grasp of the subject. Continually asking readers to think further, to synthesize, to analyze, and to apply to improve their own health outcomes as they learn, Gurung empowers students through connections to personal experience. The
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Chapter 1. What Is Health? Cultural and Historical Roots
Chapter 2. Doing Health Psychology: Research Methods
Chapter 3. Cultural Approaches to Health
Chapter 4. Essential Physiology
Chapter 5. Diverse Understandings of Stress
Chapter 6. Coping and Social Support
Chapter 7. Why Don’t We Do What We Need To? Models of Behavior Change
Chapter 8. Health Behaviors: Eating, Being Active, Smoking, and Drinking
Chapter 9. Illness Cognitions, Adherence, and Patient–Practitioner Interactions
Chapter 10. Diverse Approaches to Pain
Chapter 11. Chronic Illness, Terminal Illness, and Death
Chapter 12. Psychoneuroimmunology and HIV
Chapter 13. Cancer: Fundamentals and Cultural Variations
Chapter 14. Cardiovascular Disease: Fundamentals and Cultural Variations
Chapter 15. Controversies and the Future of Health Psychology
About Health Psychology: Well-Being in a Diverse World, Fifth Edition
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Health Psychology: Well-being in a Diverse World guides students through the key determinants of behavior, such as family, environment, ethnicity, and religion. Each chapter delves into the biological foundations of health, presents interdisciplinary case studies, and integrates personality and social psychological theories, fostering a comprehensive grasp of the subject.
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- Enhanced cultural emphasis, highlighting the significant role of culture in predicting health outcomes.
- In-depth exploration of diverse perspectives, featuring contributions from five women scholars of different nationalities, ethnicities, and theoretical backgrounds. Contributing authors to this edition are Dr. Kathleen Bogart, Amanda ElBassiouny, Deepti Karkhanis, Melissa Oxlad, and Aurora Sherman.
- Updated art work to ensure sensitivity to diverse populations.
- Updated content to incorporate new research and increased material on diverse populations.
- Expanded coverage on East Asian participants and diverse cultural approaches to health.
- New photographs, figures, and graphs, with current examples from recent news events.
KEY FEATURES:
- A unique focus on context—including culture, religion, age, gender, family values, and the region of the country in which one was raised—emphasizes the important role it plays in understanding the precedents of health and health behaviors.
- Researcher Spotlight features connect chapter research with brief biographical information about the researchers themselves to show how varied and diverse the research contributions are.
- Measuring Up sections allow students to conduct self-assessments based on measurement tools from the literature, making the material more personally relevant and memorable.
- Ponder This sections pose questions that prompt students to think about chapter content in relation to their own lives.
- Essential readings offer further readings comprised of classic articles in the field or contemporary research studies regarding some of the material most cited by health psychologists.
- Chapter summaries and lists of key terms, concepts, and people give students the opportunity to easily review the material.
