Health psychology / Ryan E. Murphy, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murphy, Ryan E.

Series:

Psychology of emotions, motivations, and actions series.

Public health in the 21st century series.

Psychology of emotions, motivations and actions

Public health in the 21st century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine and psychology.

Healing--Psychological aspects.

Healing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Presents research gathered from across the globe in the study of health psychology, including leisure and depression in midlife; the benefits of humor on health and pain; hypnosis for the treatment of chronic pain; benefit finding relating to better emotional health in heart patients; and, blaming parents for their children's weight issues.

Contents:

""HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY""; ""HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""For the Health of It: A Brief Version of the Situational Humor Response Questionnaire (Martin & Lefcourt, 1984)""; ""Abstract""; ""Introduction""; ""Theories of Humor: Arousal, Incongruity, Superiority/Disparagement, and Behavioral""; ""I. Arousal Theories""; ""II. Incongruity Theories""; ""III. Superiority/Disparagement Theories""; ""IV. Behavioral Models""; ""Summary of Theoretical Explanations for the Benefits of Humor""; ""Measurement of Humor and Laughter""; ""Study 1: Method""

""Participants, Procedure, and Measures""""Measures""; ""1) The Situational Humor Response Questionnaire (SHRQ; Martin& Lefcourt, 1984)""; ""2) Humor Initiation and Responsiveness Measure (HIRM; Bell, McGhee, & Duffy, 1986; cited in Nahemour, McCluskey-Fawcett, & McGhee, 1986)""; ""3) The Sense of Humor Questionnaire (SHQ; Svebak, 1974)""; ""4) The Coping Humor Scale (CHS; Martin & Lefcourt, 1983)""; ""5) Conformist Humor Rating Measure""; ""6) The Daily Hassles Scale (DHS; Kanner, Coyne, Schaefer, & Lazarus, 1981)""; ""7) The Health Opinion Survey (HOS; MacMillan, 1957)""; ""Results""

""Item Selection & Descriptive Statistics""""Construct Validity""; ""SHRQ Correlates""; ""Sex Differences""; ""Discussion""; ""Study 2: Method""; ""Participants, Procedure, and Measures""; ""1) Daily Hassles (DHS-56; see e.g., Delongis, Folkman, & Lazarus, 1988)""; ""2) The Inventory of College Students� Recent Life Experiences (ICRLES17; Korotkov, in press-a and b; see Kohn, Lafreniere, & Gurevich, 1990 for the full measure)""; ""3) Short-form Perceived Stress Scale (PSS; Cohen & Williamson, 1988)""; ""4) The Memorial University of Newfoundland Scale of Happiness (MUNSH

Kozma, Stones, & McNeil, 1991)""""5) The Memorial University of Newfoundland Mood Scale (MUMS; see Kozma et al., 1991 and McNeil, 1987)""; ""6) Dispositional Optimism (OPT; see e.g., Scheier & Carver, 1987)""; ""7) Extraversion (EXT)""; ""8) Memorial University of Newfoundland Symptomatology Scale (MUSS; Korotkov, 2000)""; ""Results""; ""Descriptive Statistics""; ""Construct Validity""; ""SHRQ Correlates""; ""Sex Differences""; ""Stress Moderation""

""The Inventory of College Students Recent Life Experiences -17. Interestingly, when the Inventory of College Students Recent Life Experiences was the stress predictor, there was a marginally significant interaction with the full SHRQ measure in relatio...""""The Perceived Stress Scale. No significant interaction effects were found for either version of the SHRQ when the Perceived Stress Scale was the stress predictor, although at the third step of each analysis, both versions of the SHRQ predicted th...""; ""Discussion""; ""Conclusion""; ""Psychometrics and the 12-item SHRQ""

""Humor and Stress Moderation""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61761-165-4

OCLC:

923654648