… scientific and health-care developments which have fostered a broadened role for
psychologists in issues of physical health. We highlight mechanisms linking behavior to health and …

… psychological traits such as trait negative affect (trait NA) and cognitive competency to health
… many relationships between traits and health indicators reflect interactions of behaviors …

▪ Abstract Our evolving understanding of how psychosocial and behavioral factors affect
health and disease processes has been marked by investigation of specific relationships and …

… health psychology across a range of disciplines including psychology, anthropology and
health … In the opening chapter we locate the field, both of health and of health psychology, and …

… influences on health because this is a direction in which health psychology is moving. The
… approaches to many of the critical topics in health psychology at the start of the 21st century. …

… health psychology to life and emphasize how psychological factors are relevant to our daily
existence whether we are healthy or … how health psychology differs from clinical psychology …

… that demonstrated relations among biological, psychological, behavioral, and social forces.
… of psychological and social factors influence physical health. Historically, health psychology …

Reviews the literature on health psychology, using an approach that emphasizes process
models and interactions among variables. The following variables appear to correlate most …

… Rather, our intent is to outline what we believe to be some of the key theoretical issues in
clinical health psychology focused on adolescence and to highlight state-of-the- art, empirically …