Psychology of Health and Illness Assignment PDF
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Running Head: Psychology of Health and IllnessPSYCHOLOGY OFHEALTH AND ILLNESS
Psychology of Health and Illness1Health Psychology is a kind of study in which processes of behaviour and psychology inhealth and illness are studied. It makes people understand as to how psychology andbehaviour and other cultural attributes of health and illness. The factors in psychology caneasily affect health. Behaviour with the sick can also affect his health [ CITATION Goo06 \l2057 ]. Such as enhancing health if regular exercise is being done. The psychologists ofhealth try to understand health as a product and not just the biological process. They alsounderstand it in behavioural and social way processes [ CITATION Hev09 \l 2057 ]. The combination of mind and behaviour is what that makes psychology. There are sometheories which is related to the health such as Health Belief model, Theory of plannedbehaviour and Social cognition theory etc. Psychology helps in investigating some conceptslike cognition, perception, emotion, relationships and functioning of brain etc.[ CITATIONFre17 \l 2057 ]. All these theories can help in analysing the behaviour of humans when theycome in contact with the media. The body types which are shown in media influences womento desire for such petite body types. Health and psychology theories help in reading the mindsand behaviours of humans and studies as to how such behaviour can lead to harmful impacts.For Example: theory of planned behaviour: This theory means the model which places theindividual in the social world and also in their individual one. It is related to the cognitionmodel which forces young women to become petite and have the body type that is shown inmedia to feel the part of the society. Same goes with health belief model. It says thatindividual’s behaviour can be dependent on N number of beliefs such as women desire bodieslike shown in media because they believe they will be accepted in community if they havesuch body types.According to Lisa Mask and Celine Blanchard (2011), image of body is a construct which ismulti-dimensional and includes two components: Attitudinal in which the perception that onehas about his/her body and perceptual in which the measure of body size is actual thatis[ CITATION Mas11 \l 1033 ]. The purpose of the study was to study the link between mediaexposure towards the dissatisfaction about the body and emotional or disturbed eating. Thiscould be done via examining the factors of pressure and internalization. Also some moreeffects of culture and weight. When the studies were done earlier, the impacts of TV andmagazine were different and separated. Media is one thing due to which the pressure exertsthe weight conscious people. Things that people read or see soon becomes the guidingprinciples for them. The study showed the results regarding media that magazines are mostly
Psychology of Health and Illness2read by women and they read 3 magazines on an average on a regular basis. Similar, on aregular basis they see average of 4 programs. Further studies were done that white women aregenerally low weighted than the non white ones. White women have huge dissatisfactionabout their body and they have this pressure of conforming for thin pictures in media. Due tothis, they develop risk of eating disorder. Ethnicity did not have much big effect on this issue.Relationship with the TV is negative but unimportant and magazine exposure was morepertinent to dissatisfaction of the body and eating disorder. The conclusion could be drawnfrom such tests that pressure was directly proportional to the Television watching. Ethnicity,BMI, Magazines all these were not very significant as compared to the Televisions watchingin women and body dissatisfaction. According to Karen Ruth Brown (2006), he concluded that relations which are displayed inundergraduate women’s exposure to the females who are petite face dissatisfaction towardstheir body when they see girls in media displaying their body[ CITATION Bro06 \l 1033 ].Mostly because of the Magazine, these petite girls feel low and depressed. When the picturesof the glowing and good body women are seen in the magazines, this causes great mentaldisorders and sometimes physical too in few women. The trends in the media and themagazine publications were studied in which body images of the females are analysed. Theyears of the study were 1950, 1995, 2000 and 2005. The study was done and the contentwhich they got out of it were analysed. The analysis discovered as to how the femaleundergraduates would give rank to the size of the bodies of females whose pictures werethere in the magazines. The images that were to be ranked were the samples of the bodyimages of females which were showcased in the year 2005 magazines and there were somearchived issues from the year 1995 and 2000 magazines too. All these magazines were thosewhich were seen the most by the female undergraduate students by that time or we can saythat they were mostly viewed. Some of the magazines form the era May and June 1050 werealso assessed in this research study. The data which was collected had to be analysed and thecomparisons between the years and the magazines were to be done. Hence, the study affirmedthe old research conclusions that over the period of 55 years since the data was collected,there has been decline of the samples or female body images in the magazine covers.However, no major difference was seen between the means of population from 2000 to 2005. According to Kimberley Ann Davis (2007), eating disorders are generated in women in orderto get into shape and attain the favourable or desired body[ CITATION Dav07 \l 1033 ]. For
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