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Health Psychology - Describe what psychologists have found out about lifestyles and health behaviour
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Iqval Dale Health Psychology a) Describe what psychologists have found out about lifestyles and health behaviour. Psychologists have created a number of theories to explain why it is that people continue to practice bad behaviours such as smoking, when they are aware of the dangers involved. The health belief model created by Becker and Rosenstock in 1984 describes that people will only practice good behaviours such as visiting the doctor when making assessments of:> Perceived seriousness of health problem> Perceived susceptibility> Perceived costs and benefits. For example the HBM predicts that an individual will only quit smoking if she believes that she is likely to get lung cancer, that lung cancer is a severe health threat, that the benefits of being a non-smoker are high, the benefits of being a smoker are low. The HBM also states that we need cues to action to act as a trigger, for example an individual...
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