PSYC 3110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Asthma, Revised Version, Social Representation

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3110
• Professor: Kieran O' Doherty

Document Summary

Processing model: the model suggests that when faced with a threat the person forms a cognitive and emotional representation of that threat, the consequences of these coping strategies will be appraised and used appropriately. Self regulation model of illness / common sense model: suggests that lay people"s thoughts on illness could be organized among four dimensions. The former considers how the illness makes sense as a whole to the patient: three core dimensions: illness impact (consequences), duration (timeline) & control (cure/control, remember: self-image, previous studies have demonstrated that they have not been correlational. Illness representation is further influenced by coping thoughts and behavior further the four dimensions also showed prediction to attendance. Comment broad limitation in assumptions and does not consider social and cultural factors and uses standardized instruments. Interpretive phenomenological analysis: this approach argues that a human characteristic is a tendency towards self- reflection, an on-going process in which humans try to make sense of their world.