British Journal of Health Psychology

Lowe, Rob; Vedhara, Kav; Bennett, Paul; Brookes, Emily; Gale, Lone; Munnoch, Kathy; Schreiber‐Kounine, Christa; Fowler, Clare; Rayter, Zen; Sammon, Alistair; Farndon, John

doi: 10.1348/135910703770238257pmid: 14614787

Objective: Different emotions are to some extent associated with different ways of coping. Cognitive processes involved in determining emotional reactions may influence coping (perhaps through directing attention or generating salient information). This study explored possible appraisal‐coping associations by examining whether a set of appraisal components identified in emotion theory were also associated with coping.

Hobbis, I. C. A.; Turpin, G.; Read, N. W.

doi: 10.1348/135910703770238266pmid: 14614788

Objectives: Psychosocial factors have been examined in functional bowel disorders (FBD), including irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and chronic idiopathic constipation (CIC). Abnormal illness behaviour (AIB) has been investigated in IBS patients as evidence of underlying psychological distress and as influencing health‐care‐seeking behaviour. Health locus of control may also contribute to health‐care‐seeking behaviour, as possession of an external locus of control places responsibility for health status onto professionals. Thus, external locus of control may also be more prominent in FBD patients. This study examined whether FBD patients displayed more AIB and an external health locus of control compared with organic disease and non‐patient controls.

Schumann, Anja; Hapke, Ulfert; Meyer, Christian; Rumpf, Hans‐Jürgen; John, Ulrich

doi: 10.1348/135910703770238275pmid: 14614789

Objectives: Sense of Coherence is the core construct of Antonovsky's salutogenetic model. To measure Sense of Coherence, a 29‐item‐questionnaire (SOC‐29), a shortened 13‐item version, and a simplified measure of only three items (SOC‐3) are available. In our study, the last was tested in terms of the psychometric properties and compared with an alternative short form derived from the SOC‐29.

Dijkstra, Arie; Tromp, Debbie; Conijn, Barbara

doi: 10.1348/135910703770238284pmid: 14614790

Objectives: The stages of change construct refers to the different psychological states people move through when they change their behaviour. However, the prediction that people in different stages of change need different sorts of interventions to stimulate the change process has scarcely been tested prospectively. An indirect test of this hypothesis would need to assess whether there are stage‐specific psychological determinants of forward stage transition.

Munafò, Marcus R.; Stevenson, Jim

doi: 10.1348/135910703770238293pmid: 14614791

Objective: To investigate the use of a measure of selective processing bias associated with anxiety as a predictor of post‐operative pain independently of self‐report measures of anxiety.

Lattimore, Paul J.; Halford, Jason C. G.

doi: 10.1348/135910703770238301pmid: 14614792

Objectives: Food choice in schoolchildren was examined in relation to dieting and measures of eating psychopathology. It was predicted that dieters would make healthier food choices compared to non‐dieters and that measures of eating psychopathology would be associated with food choice.

Wright, C. C.; Barlow, J. H.; Turner, A. P.; Bancroft, G. V.

doi: 10.1348/135910703770238310pmid: 14614793

Objective: To determine the effectiveness of a community‐based Chronic Disease Self‐management Course (CDC) for UK participants with a range of chronic diseases.

Cox, K. L.; Gorely, T. J.; Puddey, I. B.; Burke, V.; Beilin, L. J.

doi: 10.1348/135910703770238329pmid: 14614794

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the relation between self‐reported psychological processes and changes in exercise behaviour in an 18‐month longitudinal stage‐based intervention trial in 115 initially sedentary women aged 40‐65 years.