Personal Issues in Chronic Health Disorders
Chronic health disorders is an illness that persists for a long period. Chronic health disorders include many major diseases and conditions, such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and arthritis. In
Category: SYBA Psychology
Health Promoting Behaviors
Health promoting behaviors, including exercise, accident prevention, cancer prevention, healthy diet, and sleep. Each of these important behaviors has been related to at least one major cause of illness and
Sources of Stress – Individual, Family, Society and Environment
What is Stress? Stress is a feeling of emotional or physical tension. Lazarus and Launier (1978), regarded stress as a transaction between people and the environment. They described stress in terms
Quality of life and Health Behaviors.
Quality of Life and Health Behavior The World Health Organization (WHO) defines quality of life as ‘a broad ranging concept affected in a complex way by the person’s physical health,
Health Compromising Behaviors – Obesity, Smoking & Drinking.
Health-compromising behaviors are the behaviors practiced by people that undermine or harm their current or future health. It refers as the use of cigarettes, alcohol, and illicit drugs. The effect of
Happiness Across the Life Span, Gender and happiness, Marriage and happiness, other facts of life
Happiness is an emotion of joy, gladness, satisfaction, and well-being. Circumstances of our lives influence our level of happiness. Think about happiness across the life span such Childhood, teen age,
Adler’s Individual psychology
Adler’s Individual psychology Alfred Adler (1870-1937), an Austrian medical doctor, gave importance to the social context in the development of personality as well as the interpersonal relationships. He suggested that
Jung’s Analytical Psychology
Jung’s Analytical Psychology. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and a close friend of Sigmund Freud. He emphasized the idea that we need to study different cultures as
Freud’s Classical Psychodynamic theory
The Psychodynamic approach to personality stems from Sigmund Freud’s theory about how and why people become who they are. Psyche: According to Freud, an internal structure of the mind is made
Self-Realization: The Eudaimonic basis of happiness
Self-realization the process of striving toward full potential as fundamental yet obtainable only after the basic needs of physical survival, safety, love and belongingness, and esteem are fulfilled. Also called
Subjective Well-being: Hedonic basis of happiness.
Subjective well-being refers to one’s appraisal of one’s own level of life satisfaction and positive emotional experience. Subjective well-being shares a common core of meaning with the more everyday term
What is Social Cognition in Social Psychology? It’s Definitions, Nature & Errors
Introduction of Social Cognition We are always trying to make sense out of the social world, How we think about the world and this basic fact leads us to engage