PSY100H1 Chapter 10: PSY100 Chapter 10.docx
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Health psychology is an area of study that integrates research on health and on psychology: apply knowledge of psychological principles to promote health and well-being, instead of thinking about health merely as the absence of disease. Well-being is a positive state in which we feel our best. To achieve optimal health, we need to actively participate in maintaining wellness through health-enhancing behaviours. The biopsychosocial model of health incorporates multiple perspectives for improving. Biopsychosicial model a model of health that integrates the effects of biological, behavioural, and social factors on health and illness (figure 10. 2 on page 441) Behaviour contributes to the leading causes of death. People are most likely to die from causes that stem from their own behaviours (smoking, obesity) Stress is divided into two types: eustress, the stress of positive events, distress, the stress of negative events. There are sex differences in responses to stressors.
