All of us want to live happily and healthily. Some people go to a gym for training or go jogging every day. What should we pay attention to to maintain our health first? I will describe how health beliefs relate to unhealthy behaviors in this assignment.
Health behaviors include smoking habits, eating foods high in fat, drinking large amounts of alcohol, and having a sedentary lifestyle, which seem to bring adverse effects(Ogden, 2019). Most people know that those have bad effects on our bodies, but how can they not stop unhealthy habits? As we learned from the Health Belief Model, if we have high risks for some diseases for genetics, we would be careful about the initial symptom and take a periodical inspection(Ogden, 2019). Not only that, we might save something we love doing or eating. But no matter how we understand our specific behavior affects nicely or badly, it is not easy to change our habits if it forced to endure something. Our attitudes about many aspects of life, such as "smoking are relaxing" and "alcohol is good for stress," bringing difficult changes(Ogden, 2019). Enhancing health motivation by understanding how unhealthy habits impact us and might damage our health encourage us to make changes(Ogden, 2019).
According to the Theory of Planning Behavior, Having appropriate fear for negative effects that also useful. According to Ogden (2019), "About 50% of mortality from the 10 leading causes of death results from individual behavior"(p.13). We might be able to prevent this by changing our behaviors. Fear of illness and death leads to suppression of unhealthy behavior. However, improper fear of illness can come because of chronic anxiety and insomnia.
I found the best way in the Theory of Planned Behavior. Maintaining a positive attitude and belief towards a behavior such as “exercising is fun and will improve my health” (Ogden, 2019, p.22). We can build good relationships with others through exercise, expected to be improved cosmetically, also improve our self-esteem. I have learned health beliefs have enormous influences on us both positively and negatively in this assignment.
References
Ogden, J. (2019). The Psychology of Health and Illness: an open access course. Retrieved from http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/841757/1/__homes.surrey.ac.uk_home_.System_Desktop_The Psychology of Health and Illnessbk.pdf
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