Subjective well-being as a determinant of individuals' responses to symptoms: A biopsychosocial perspective

International Journal of Clinical Practice

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1435-1445

  Kirana, P S ^a   Rosen, R ^b   Hatzichristou, D ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b NEW ENGLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WELLBEING; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH STATUS; LIFESTYLE; MENTAL STRESS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 70349237378     PISSN: 13685031     EISSN: 17421241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-1241.2009.02183.x     Document Type: Article

References (84)

1. Engel GL. The need for a new medical model: a challenge for biomedicine. Science 1977 196 : 129 135.
2. Anderson NB. Levels of analysis in health science: a framework for integrating socio-behavioral and biomedical research. Ann NY Acad Sci 1988 840 : 563.
3. Dattilo J. Inclusive Leisure Services. State College, PA : Venture Publishing, 2002.
4. Vaillant G. Aging Well. Boston : Little Brown and Company, 2002.
5. Ostir G, Markides K, Black S, Goodwin J. Emotional well-being predicts subsequent functional independence and survival. J Am Geriatr Soc 2000 48 : 473 478.
6. Ryff CD, Singer BH, Dienberg G. (2004) Positive health: connecting well-being with biology. Phil Trans R Soc Lond B 2004 359 : 1383 1394.
7. Institute of Medicine, Committee on Healthcare in America. Crossing the Quality Chasm: A new Health System for the 21st Century. Washington DC : National Academy Press, 2002.
8. Ross CE, Duff RS. Returning to the doctor: the effect of client characteristics, type of practice, and experiences with care. J Health Soc Behav 1982 23 : 119 131.
9. Cioffi D. Beyond attentional strategies: a cognitive-perceptual model of somatic interpretation. Psychol Bull 1991 109 : 25 41.
10. Berges RR, Pientka L, Hofner K, Senge T, Jonas U. Male lower urinary tract symptoms and related healthcare seeking in Germany. Eur Urol 2001 39 : 682 687.
11. Coulter ID, Willis EM. The rise and rise of complementary and alternative medicine: a sociological perspective. Med J Aust (Sydney) 2004 180 : 587 589.
12. Last JM. The iceberg: 'completing the clinical picture' in general practice. Lancet 1963 2 : 28 31.
13. Morris LS, Schulz RM. Patient compliance: an overview. J Clin Pharm Ther 1992 17 : 283 295.
14. Cramer JA. A systematic review of adherence with medications for diabetes. Diabetes Care 2004 27 : 1218 1224.
15. Andersen RM. Revisiting the Behavioral Model and access to medical care: does it matter? J Health Soc Behav 1995 36 : 1 10.
16. Becker MH. The health belief model and personal health behavior. Health Educ Monogr 1974 2 : 324 508.
17. Bandura A. Self-efficacy: toward a unifying theory of behavioural change. Psychol Rev 1977 84 : 191 215.
18. Ajzen I. From intentions to actions: a theory of planned behavior. In : Kuhl J, Beckman j, eds. Action Control: From Cognition to Behavior. New York : Springer, 1985 : 11 39.
19. Leventhal H, Meyer D, Nerenz D. The common sense representation of illness danger. In : Rachman S, ed. Medical Psychology (Vol II). New York : Pergamon Press, 1980 : 7 30.
20. Courneya KS. Understanding readiness for regular physical activity in older individuals: an application of the Theory of Planned Behavior. Health Psychol 1995 14 : 80 7.
21. van der Pligt J. Risk perception and self-protective behavior. Eur Psychol 1996 1 : 34 43.
22. Herman MP, Dorsey P, John M, Patel N, Leung R, Tewari A. Techniques and predictive models to improve prostate cancer detection. Cancer 2009 115 : 3085 3099.
23. McKinlay JB. Some approaches and problems in the study of the use of services: an overview. J Health Soc Behav 1972 13 : 115 152.
24. Zola IK. Pathways to the doctor-From person to patient. Soc Sci Med 1973 7 : 677 689.
25. Turk DC, Wack JT, Kerns RD. An empirical examination of the 'pain-behavior' construct. J Behav Med 1985 8 : 119 130.
26. Diener E. Subjective well-being: the science of happiness and a proposal for a national index. Am Psychol 2000 55 : 34 43.
27. Headey B, Wearing A. Understanding Happiness: A Theory of Subjective Well-Being. Longman Cheshire : Melbourne, 1992.
28. Cummins RA. Objective and subjective quality of life: an interactive model. Soc Indic Res 2000 52 : 55 72.
29. Cummins R, Nistico H. Maintaining life satisfaction: the role of positive cognitve bias. J Happiness Stud 2002 3 : 37 69.
30. Okun MA, George LK. Physician and self-ratings of health, neuroticism, and subjective well-being among men and women. Pers Individ Differ 1984 5 : 533 539.
31. Salovey P, Rothman A, Detweiler J, Steward W. Emotional states and physical health. Am Psychol 2000 55 : 110 121.
32. Watson D. Mood and Temperament. New York : Guilford Press, 2000.
33. Leventhal EA, Hansell S, Diefenbach M, Leventhal H, Glass DC. Negative affect and self-report of physical symptoms: two longitudinal studies of older adults. Health Psychol 1996 15 : 193 199.
34. Diefenbach MA, Leventhal EA, Leventhal H, Patrick-Miller L. Negative affect relates to cross-sectional but not longitudinal symptom reporting: data from elderly adults. Health Psychol 1996 15 : 282 288.
35. Ingrarn RE. Self-focused attention in clinical disorders: review and a conceptual model. Psychol Bull 1990 107 : 156 176.
36. Salovey P. Mood induced self-focused attention. J Pers Soc Psychol 1992 62 : 699 707.
37. Pennebaker JW. The Psychology of Physical Symptoms. New York : Springer, 1982.
38. Thurston RC, Blumenthal JA, Babyak MA, Sherwood A. Association between hot flashes, sleep complaints, and psychological functioning among healthy menopausal women. Psychosom Med 2005 67 : 137 146.
39. Grootscholten C, Ligtenberg G, Derksen RH et al. Health-related quality of life in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: development and validation of a lupus specific symptom checklist. Qual Life Res 2003 12 : 635 644.
40. Gatten CW, Brookings JB, Bolton B. Mood fluctuations in female multiple sclerosis patients. Soc Behav Pers 1993 21 : 103 106.
41. Sullivan MD, LaCroix AZ, Russo JE, Walker EA. Depression and self-reported physical health in patients with coronary disease: mediating and moderating factors. Psychosom Med 2001 63 : 248 256.
42. De Gucht V, Fischler B, Heiser W. Neuroticism, alexithymia, negative affect, and positive affect as determinants of medically unexplained symptoms. Pers Individ Differ 2004 36 : 1655 1667. (Pubitemid 38457805)
43. Cohen S, Doyle WJ, Turner RB, Alper CM, Skoner DP. Emotional style and susceptibility to the common cold. Psychosom Med 2003 6 : 652 657. (Pubitemid 36900262)
44. Fredrickson BL. What good are positive emotions'? Rev Gen Psychol 1998 2 : 300 319.
45. Frijda N. The Emotions. New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986.
46. Aspinwall LG. Rethinking the role of positive affect in selfregulation. Motiv Emot 1998 22 : 1 32.
47. Scheier MF, Matthews KA, Owens JF et al. Dispositional optimism and recovery from coronary artery bypass surgery: the beneficial effects on physical and psychological well-being. J Pers Soc Psychol 1989 57 : 1024 1040.
48. Anderson BL, Cacioppo JT, Roberts DC. Delay in seeking a cancer diagnosis: delay stages and psychophysiological comparison processes. Br J Soc Psychol 1996 34 : 33 52.
49. Cameron L, Leventhal EA, Leventhal H. Seeking medical care in response to symptoms and life stress. Psychosom Med 1995 57 : 1 11.
50. Fujita F, Diener E, Sandvik E. Gender differences in negative affect and well-being: the case for emotional intensity. J Pers Soc Psychol 1991 61 : 427 434.
51. Magnus K, Diener E. A Longitudinal Analysis of Personality, Life Events, and Subjective Well-Being. Paper presented at the Sixty-third Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago 1991.
52. Lucas RE, Diener E, Suh E. Discriminant validity of well-being measures. J Pers Soc Psychol 1996 71 : 616 628.
53. Scheier MF, Carver CS. On the power of positive thinking:the benefits of being optimistic. Curr Dir Psychol Sci 1993 2 : 26 30.
54. Jerram KL, Coleman PG. The big five personality traits and reporting of health problems and health behaviour in old age. Br J Health Psychol 1999 4 : 181 192.
55. Larsen RI. Neuroticism and selective encoding and recall of symptoms: evidence from a combined concurrent-retrospective study. J Pers Soc Psychol 1992 62 : 284 288.
56. Ridder D, Fournier M, Bensing J. Does optimism affect symptom report in chronic disease? What are its consequences for self-care behaviour and physical functioning? J Psychosom Res 2004 56 : 341 350.
57. Michalos AC. Social indicators research and health-related quality of life research. Soc Indic Res 2004 65 : 27 72.
58. Kwan VSY, Bond MH, Singelis TM. Pancultural explanation for life satisfaction: adding relationship harmony to self-esteem. J Pers Soc Psychol 1997 73 : 1038 1051.
59. Feasel KE Mediating the Relations Between Goals and Subjective Well-Being: Global and Domain-Specific Variants of Self-Efficacy. Unpublished master's thesis. Illinois : University of Illinois, 1995.
60. Landau R, Litwin H. Subjective well-being among the old-old: the role of health, personality and social support. Int J Aging Hum Dev 2001 52 : 265 280.
61. Antonucci TC, Peggs JF, Marquez JT. The relationship between self-esteem and physical health in a family practice population. Fam Pract Res J 1989 9 : 65 72.
62. Leary MR, McDonald G. Individual differences in selfesteem: a review and theoretical integration. In : Leary MR, Tangney JP, eds. Handbook of Self and Identity. New York : Guilford Press, 2003 : 401 420.
63. Hurst DF, Boswell DL, Boogaard SE, Watson MW. The relationship of self-esteem to the health-related behaviors of the patients of a primary care clinic. Arch Fam Med 1997 6 : 67 70.
64. Mackenbach J, Simon J, Looman C, Joung I. Self assessed health and mortality: could psychosocial factors explain the association? Int J Epidemiol 2002 31 : 1162 1168.
65. Pennebaker JW, Burnam MA, Schaeffer MA, Harper DC. Lack of control as a determinant of perceived physical symptoms. J Pers Soc Psychol 1977 35 : 167 174.
66. Stern GS, McCants TR, Pettine P. Stress and illness. Pers Soc Psychol Bull 1982 8 : 140 145.
67. Thiesen M, MacNeill S, Lumley M, Ketterer M, Goldberg D, Borzak S. Psychosocial factors related to unrecognized acute myocardial infarction. Am J Cardiol 1995 75 : 1211 1213.
68. Greeno CG, Jackson C, Williams EL, Fortmann SP. The effect of perceived control over eating on the life satisfaction of women and men: results from a community sample. Int J Eat Disord 1997 24 : 415 419.
69. Rejesky WJ, Shelton B, Miller M, Dunn AL, King AC, Sallis JF. Mediators of increased physical activity and change in subjective well-being: results from the Activity Counseling Trial (ACT). J Health Psychol 2001 6 : 159 168.
70. Nes RB, Røysamb E, Reichborn-Kjennerud T, Tambs K, Harris JR. Subjective wellbeing and sleep problems: a bivariate twin study. Twin Res Hum Genet 2005 8 : 440 449.
71. Campbell A. The Sense of Well-Being in America: Recent Patterns and Trends. New York : McGraw-Hill, 1981.
72. Dalgard OS, Haheim L. Psychosocial risk factors and mortality: a prospective study with special focus on social support, social participation, and locus of control in Norway. J Epidemiol Community Health 1998 52 : 476 481.
73. Lima-Costa FA, Firmo J, Uchôa E. The structure of self-rated health among older adults: the Bambuí health and ageing study (BHAS). Rev Saude Publica 2004 38 : 1 7.
74. Voils CI, Steffens DC, Flint EP, Bosworth HB. Social support and locus of control as predictors of adherence to antidepressant medication in an elderly population. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2005 13 : 157 165.
75. Deri C. Social networks and health service utilization. J Health Econ 2005 24 : 1076 1107.
76. Harris Interactive I. The Increasing Impact of EHealth on Consumer Behavior. Health Care News 2001 1 (21 1 9.
77. Report of the Independent Inquiry Into Inequalities in Health. London : Stationery Office, 1998.
78. DiMaggio P, Hargittai E, Neuman WR, Robinson JP. Social implications of the Internet. Annu Rev Sociol 2001 27 : 307 336.
79. Kaphingst KA, Zanfini CJ, Emmons KM. Accessibility of web sites containing colorectal cancer information to adults with limited literacy (United States). Cancer Causes Control 2006 17 : 147 151.
80. Zola IK. Culture and Sumptoms: an analysis of patients' presenting complaints. Am Sociol Rev 1966 31 : 615 630.
81. Burnam MA, Timbers DM, Hough RL. Two measures of psychological distress among Mexican Americans, Mexicans and Anglos. J Health Soc Behav 1984 25 : 24 33.
82. Millen N, Walker C. Overcoming the stigma of chronic illness: strategies for normalisation of a 'spoiled identity'. Health Sociol Rev 2002 10 : 89 97.
83. Pavot W, Diener E. Review of the Satisfaction with Life Scale. Psychol Assess, 1993 5 : 164 172.
84. Crawford JR, Henry JD. The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS): construct validity, measurement properties and normative data in a large non-clinical sample. Br J Clin Psychol, 2004 43 : 245 265.