Affective Determinants of Health Behavior
David M. Williams, Ryan E. Rhodes, and Mark T. Conner
Abstract
In the last twenty to thirty years, research on affective determinants of health behavior has proliferated. For the first time, this burgeoning area of research is reviewed and discussed in a single volume, with chapters from leading experts in their respective areas. Authors focus on a range of affective concepts, including, but not limited to, hedonic response, incidental affect, perceived satisfaction, anticipated affect, affective attitudes, and affective associations. In the first part of the book (chapters 2–10), the role of affective concepts is highlighted and expanded in multiple theo ... More
In the last twenty to thirty years, research on affective determinants of health behavior has proliferated. For the first time, this burgeoning area of research is reviewed and discussed in a single volume, with chapters from leading experts in their respective areas. Authors focus on a range of affective concepts, including, but not limited to, hedonic response, incidental affect, perceived satisfaction, anticipated affect, affective attitudes, and affective associations. In the first part of the book (chapters 2–10), the role of affective concepts is highlighted and expanded in multiple theories of health behavior, including theories of action control, self-regulation, self-determination, dual-processing, affective associations, and hedonic motivation. The second part of the book (chapters 11–20) focuses on the role of affective concepts in specific health behavior domains, including physical activity, eating, smoking, substance use, sex, tanning, blood donation, performance of health professionals, cancer screening, and cancer control. Each chapter offers a summary of existing research, as well as the authors’ insights on possible new directions and implications for intervention.
Keywords:
affective determinants,
health behavior,
action control,
dual-processing,
self-regulation,
self-determination,
hedonic motivation
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780190499037 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2018 |
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190499037.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
David M. Williams, editor
Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown University
Ryan E. Rhodes, editor
Professor of Education, University of Victoria
Mark T. Conner, editor
Professor of Applied Social Psychology, University of Leeds
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