功能障碍在晚年生活中的表现和行为意图:一个动机视角
Shira Peleg1,2, Victoria Michalowski2, Theresa Pauly2
1Department of Social & Health Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
概括
老年人可能会淡化慢性健康问题,这可能会降低他们采取健康行为的意图. 将情绪自我保护与准确的威胁感知平衡,对于促进老龄化人口主动健康选择至关重要.
科学领域:
- 老年学是一门学科.
- 健康心理学 心理健康心理学
- 行为科学 行为科学
背景情况:
- 老年人的功能障碍会对生活质量产生负面影响,并增加医疗保健成本.
- 这些障碍的认知和情感表现及其与健康行为意图的联系尚未得到充分理解.
- 自律的常识模型为探索这些关系提供了一个框架,考虑与年龄相关的防御动机.
研究的目的:
- 调查老年人如何在认知和情感上代表功能障碍.
- 检查与年龄相关的防御动机对这些表征的影响.
- 为了确定损伤表示与参与健康行为的意图之间的关联.
主要方法:
- 一项涉及301名加拿大50-95岁成年人的研究.
- 对六种功能障碍的认知和情感表现的内部评估.
- 每个障碍的自我报告的健康行为意图.
主要成果:
- 年龄较大与更积极的情感表现障碍相关.
- 感知到障碍的慢性程度缓和了年龄和感知到后果之间的关联.
- 负面的后果和身份表现,以及更高的治疗控制,预测了更强烈的意图;更高的个人控制预测了更低的意图.
- 老年人淡化慢性障碍的后果间接导致了更低的意图.
结论:
- 老龄化涉及到一种激励性的权衡,在这种情况下,情感自我保护可能会阻碍主动的健康行为.
- 在老年人中,平衡情绪自我保护与对健康威胁的准确感知至关重要.
- 干预措施应考虑认知和情感表现,以增强健康行为意图.
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