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Multiculturalism

Multiculturalism

The term multiculturalism refers to a perspective in which diversity in backgrounds and experiences related to race, ethnicity, gender, sexual...
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Gravitational Hypothesis

Gravitational Hypothesis

The gravitational hypothesis is a theory that suggests that workers will gravitate, or move, to jobs that match their cognitive...
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Prevention Strategies

Prevention Strategies for Bulimia

This article within the field of health psychology explores prevention strategies for bulimia nervosa, a serious eating disorder characterized by...
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Families Multiracial

Multiracial Families

As the numbers of both transracial adoptions and interracial relationships have increased, the notion of family has expanded in recent...
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Hardiness

Hardiness

Hardiness consists of three interrelated belief systems people have about their relationship to their world. Commitment refers to people’s ability...
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Across Bulimia

Bulimia Across Cultures

This article explores the multifaceted phenomenon of Bulimia Nervosa across diverse cultural contexts within the framework of health psychology. The...
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Nationalism

Nationalism

Nationalism is a sociopolitical ideology that defines the solidarity, history, and destiny of a human population based on a nation...
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Impression Management

Impression Management

Many companies use scores from personality tests when evaluating job applicants. Meta-analytic evidence suggests that scores from well-developed personality tests...
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Nutritional Rehabilitation

Nutritional Rehabilitation in Bulimia Treatment

This article explores the pivotal role of nutritional rehabilitation in the comprehensive treatment of Bulimia Nervosa, emphasizing its significance in...
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Diversity Organizational

Organizational Diversity

The workforce of the United States continues to grow more diverse. Employment equity legislation has made organizational diversity an issue...
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Assessment Individual

Individual Assessment

Although individual psychological assessment is one of the most widely offered services provided by practitioners in psychology, it takes on...
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Cancer Diagnosis

Cancer Diagnosis and Coping Mechanisms

This article explores the intricate landscape of coping mechanisms in the context of cancer diagnosis within the field of health...
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Islanders Pacific

Pacific Islanders

Pacific Islanders refers to the indigenous people of the Polynesian, Micronesian, and Melanesian islands. Polynesia refers to the islands settled...
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Integrity Testing

Integrity Testing

Paper-and-pencil tests designed to measure integrity, honesty, dependability, and related constructs have been in existence since at least the 1950s...
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Interventions Psychological

Psychological Interventions in Oncology

This article on psychological interventions in oncology explores the critical role of psychological interventions in addressing the multifaceted impact of...
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Pluralism

Pluralism

In its general sense, pluralism refers to the existence and validity of a variety of beliefs, values, realities, and identities....
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Knowledge Testing

Job Knowledge Testing

Job knowledge is critical to successful job performance. Job performance can be viewed as being determined by one’s declarative knowledge...
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Cancer Treatment

The Role of Hope in Cancer Treatment

This article delves into the intricate interplay between hope and cancer treatment within the realm of health psychology. Recognizing the...
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Poverty

Poverty

Poverty is a global problem. Using the U.S. dollar as a hallmark for living standards, approximately 2.8 billion people live...
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Letters Recommendation

Letters of Recommendation

In psychology, there is a common belief that the best predictor of future performance is past performance. References and letters...
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Cancer Survivorship

Cancer Survivorship and Mental Health

This article explores the intricate intersection of cancer survivorship and mental health within the realm of health psychology. The introduction...
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Uncategorized

Race

Race refers to a label that is commonly ascribed to individuals in certain societies based on their affiliation with a...
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Control Locus

Locus of Control

Locus of control is a personality variable that reflects a person’s general beliefs about whether he or she is in...
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Cancer Impact

The Impact of Cancer on Family Systems

This article explores the profound impact of cancer on family systems within the framework of health psychology. The introduction provides...
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Microaggressions Racial

Racial Microaggressions

Racial microaggressions are subtle and commonplace exchanges or indignities (both conscious and unconscious) that somehow convey demeaning messages to people...
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Machiavellianism

Machiavellianism

Machiavellianism is a strategy of interpersonal conduct whereby others are manipulated and deceived in the pursuit of one’s own interests....
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Anxiety Depression

Depression and Anxiety in Cancer Patients

This health psychology article explores the nuanced interplay of depression and anxiety in cancer patients, shedding light on their prevalence,...
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Pride Racial

Racial Pride

Racial pride is an attitude signifying a preference for cultural representations of one’s racial group. Much of the conceptualization and...
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Motivational Traits

Motivational Traits

Motivation refers to an internal set of nonability processes that channel, energize, and sustain behavior over time. Motivation influences the...
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Management Stress

Stress Management Techniques for Cancer

This article in health psychology explores stress management techniques specifically tailored for individuals facing the challenges of cancer. The introduction...
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Diversity Recruitment

Recruitment and Diversity

Early in the history of the psychology/counseling profession, few efforts were made to “recruit” culturally diverse persons; rather, diverse persons,...
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Achievement Power

Need for Achievement, Power, and Affiliation

The need for achievement, power, and affiliation are three primary types of motives or motivational drives that influence a broad...
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Aspects Psychological

Psychological Aspects of Palliative Care

This article explores the intricate psychological aspects of palliative care within the realm of health psychology. The introduction delineates the...
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Refugees

Refugees

Refugees are people who flee their native countries to seek sanctuary in another country as a means of escaping persecution...
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Optimism Pessimism

Optimism and Pessimism

The terms optimism and pessimism refer to the tendencies of people to expect that good things will happen and to...
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Psycho-oncology Quality

Psycho-oncology and Quality of Life

This article explores the field of psycho-oncology and its profound implications for the Quality of Life (QoL) of cancer patients....
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Santeria

Santeria

Santeria, also known as Lukumr, Regla de Ocha, or “the way of the saints,” is an Afro-Cuban and earth-centered religion...
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Personality

Personality

Despite the fact that many scholars have offered formal definitions of personality for almost 100 years, no consensus on any...
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Behavioral Medicine

Behavioral Medicine Approaches to Cancer Care

This article explores the pivotal role of behavioral medicine approaches in cancer care within the field of health psychology. The...
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Culture Second

Second Culture Acquisition

Second culture acquisition, an integral aspect of the acculturation process, is the adjustment of the immigrant to the dominant culture....
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Assessment Personality

Personality Assessment

Personality assessment is the process of gathering information about an individual to make inferences about personal characteristics including thoughts, feelings,...
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Assessments Psychological

Psychological Assessments for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

This article explores the crucial role of psychological assessments in understanding and managing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). Beginning with an...
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Orientation Sexual

Sexual Orientation

Sexual orientation describes a person’s sexual or affectional attraction to another person specifically identified by gender, either opposite sex (heterosexually...
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Performance Physical

Physical Performance Assessment

Physically demanding occupations, such as manual materials handling and public safety, require the use of a variety of physical abilities...
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Cognitive Dysfunction

Cognitive Dysfunction in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

This article explores the intricate relationship between Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and cognitive dysfunction within the domain of health psychology....
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Discrimination Social

Social Discrimination

Discrimination is a complex social problem that affects individuals, groups, organizations, and society as a whole. Scholars describe discrimination as...
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Intelligence Practical

Practical Intelligence

The concept of practical intelligence reflects the idea that there might be some ability besides general mental abilities g), some...
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Emotional Resilience

Emotional Resilience and Chronic Fatigue

This article delves into the intricate relationship between emotional resilience and chronic fatigue within the realm of health psychology. The...
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Socioeconomic Status

Socioeconomic Status

Socioeconomic Status Definition Socioeconomic status (SES) is an indicator of an individual’s social and economic standing in society and often...
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Ethic Protestant

Protestant Work Ethic

The notion of the Protestant work ethic has its roots in Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of...
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