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It has been estimated that the epidemic of overweight and obesity has now reached more than 1.1 billion people worldwide (World Health Organization, 1998). The rapid increase in the number of people being overweight has received considerable attention in the past decade with a particular emphasis on
Evolutionary explanations of overeating in modern society emphasize that humans have evolved to eat to their physiological limits when food is available. The present paper challenges the idea that eating is driven by the availability of food only and proposes that it is regulated by strategic antici
Objectives: This article describes the development, content, feasibility and first results of a short educational program for preparing for aging, based on the process model of proactive coping [Aspinwall LG, Taylor SE. A stitch in time: self regulation and proactive coping. Psychol Bull 1997; 121:
The assumption that disease-related stressors are exclusive for particular diagnoses characterizes many studies of chronically ill patients. In this study the perceptions of 1305 patients from 10 different chronic disease categories were compared with respect to a number of important stressors. Diff
Objective: The aim of the present study was to examine whether optimistic chronically ill patients [50 multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and 65 Type 1 diabetes mellitus (IDDM) patients] overestimate their health status by decreased symptom report, and to what extent such an optimistic interpretation
The aim of the present study was to investigate longitudinally the sensitivity of optimistic beliefs (positive outcome expectancies, efficacy expectancies, and optimistic bias) to disease-related stress (measured by disease duration, depressive symptoms, physical symptoms, physical impairment, and l
According to Leventhal’s Self-Regulatory Model of Illness, patients have ideas and action plans related to the management of their disease. The aim of this study is to examine whether ideas and action plans relating to hypertension change as a result of general practitioner’s (GP’s) discussing them
Wat mensen doen en laten in het perspectief van wat ze belangrijk vinden is een thema dat in psychologische termen wordt aangeduid met zelfregulatie – een begrip dat het hele scala aan gedragingen omvat dat te maken heeft met de manier waarop mensen doelen formuleren, de strategieën die ze toepassen
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