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Health in the United States: Are Appeals to Choice …

WEB644 Hook, Markus prevent them? The causes of ill health are complex and multifactorial, yet the answers offered by mainstream U.S. culture are strikingly narrow: Poor personal choices are the primary cause of ill health, and more personal responsibility is the primary solution. We contend that

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Changing Mindsets to Build Cultures of Health SPARQ

WEBThe United States ranks #1 in the world in per capita health care spending, but ranks in the bottom half of wealthy nations in life expectancy, infant mortality, cardiovascular disease mortality, obesity, and diabetes.

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Americans’ Health Mindsets: Content, Cultural …

WEBbehavioral components that allow individuals to orient toward and pursue health, as they understand it in their cultural contexts [5, 17]. Despite the robust effects of mindsets on health

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Emotional and physical health benefits of expressive …

WEBHealth benefits of expressive writing Advances in Psychiatric Treatment • • • • • • • • • • •

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Affirm the Self to Promote Health SPARQ

WEBMoreover, students in the self-affirmation group bought more condoms and took more educational brochures on AIDS than did students in the control group, demonstrating that self-affirmation can increase disease prevention. Together, these studies illustrate that self-affirmation makes people more accepting of and responsive to threatening health

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SPARQ 'Connect to Health' Study in the News SPARQ

WEBState Has Good Care If You Can Get It, According to Text-Message Study. By David Gorn, California Healthline, Wednesday, May 27, 2015. Low-income Californians with health coverage had an overall positive experience accessing care once they found insurance through the state's health benefit exchange, according to a study released …

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When Students Feel They Belong, They Thrive SPARQ

WEBThey first randomly assigned half of the 92 study participants (the belonging condition) to read survey results showing that most first-year students at their school, regardless of race or gender, worry whether they belong in college, but then later feel at home. The other half of the students (the control condition) read about how their

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Caring Letters Prevent Suicide SPARQ

WEBThe letters expressed concern, care, and a desire to stay in contact. For instance, one letter read: Dear John, It has been some time since you were here at the hospital, and we hope things are going well for you. If you wish to drop us a note, we would be glad to hear from you. Best, Susan. Patients in the contact group received 8 letters in

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Written Emotional Expression: Effect Sizes, Outcome Types, …

WEBWRITTEN EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION 175 leads to affective and physiological change (Pennebaker, 1989, 1993). Specifically, written emotional expression leads to the

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Students of color show health advantages when they attend

WEBStudents of color show health advantages when they attend schools that emphasize the value of diversity Cynthia S. Levinea,1,2, Hazel Rose Markusb,1, Makeda K. Austina, Edith Chena, and Gregory E. Millera aInstitute for Policy Research and Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208; and bDepartment of …

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Rethinking Stress: The Role of Mindsets in Determining the

WEBeustress: “good” stress that yields a benefit (Alpert & Haber, 1960; Lazarus, 1974; Le Fevre, Matheny, & Kolt, 2003; Selye, 1975). When the body encounters adversity, physiological arousal is raised and attention is narrowed, leading it to focus resources on

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Empowering Parents Reduces Abuse SPARQ

WEBThe researchers found that fewer parents in the cognitive training condition (4%) physically abused their children than did parents in the home visit condition (23%) or the control condition (26%). In other words, home visits plus cognitive training reduced abuse by 22 percentage points. The intervention was especially powerful for families

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Do Messages about Health Risks Threaten the Self

WEBself-image to dis ease and, hence, threaten that self-image. An indi vid ual’s self-image, con sist ing of impor - tant rela tion ships, val ues, expe ri ences, and behav iors, is

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DOI: 10.1177/0956797611421936 Intervention on Weight Loss …

WEBObesity is a major risk factor for chronic disease (World Health Organization, WHO, 2000). Maintaining a healthy body mass index (BMI) requires two things: the ability to cope with stress, which increases caloric consumption (Dallman, 2009), and the ability to maintain self-control, which is needed to avoid overeating in a society with an

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Reading Between the Menu Lines: Are Restaurants’ …

WEBBRIEF REPORT Reading Between the Menu Lines: Are Restaurants’ Descriptions of “Healthy” Foods Unappealing? Bradley P. Turnwald, Dan Jurafsky, Alana Conner, and Alia J. Crum

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A Cognitive Approach to Child Abuse Prevention

WEBexample, Olds (1997) includes self-efficacy training as one of the features of his prevention program. Cognitively based family interventions have been relatively successful (e.g.,

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