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Contribution of Psychology and Social Psychology to the study of Health and Welfare Issues
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Contribution of Psychology and Social Psychology to the study of Health and Welfare Issues Assignment Two In this assignment I will be comparing and contrasting two psychological approaches demonstrating their relevance to understanding a health issue. The issue that I will be applying the two psychological approaches to is Smoking. The psycho dynamic approach denotes the active forces within the personality that motivate behaviour, and the inner causes of behaviour, in particular the unconscious conflict between the different structures that compose the whole personality. There are a lot of factors that contribute to why people behave in a certain way and why people do things that has an adverse affect on health. Anxiety is a state of apprehension, tension and worry this is associated with the Freudian theory. Freud believes that anxiety arises when the ego which is the executive of the personality is faced with an influx of stimuli with which...
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