Words about body and soul
Social representations relating to health and illness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4228510 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pia Åsbring (Karolinska Institutet) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1110-1120 |
| Publication date | 2012-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Health Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-1053 • E-ISSN: 1461-7277 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1359105311429201 |
| PMID | 22322987 |
| OpenAlex | W2048442430 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 20 |
The purpose was to examine a sample of Stockholm residents' social representations of their physical and mental health and ill-health. Four open-ended questions were answered by 1240 people between 18-80 years. A thematic analysis revealed nine aspects of health: physical, lifestyle, psychological, social, recreational, work and study, treatment, other and multifactorial aspects. Some cross-cutting themes were described to have an impact on health: empowerment, health-conscious lifestyle, life balance and life perspective. A key result is the interdependence between physical and mental health that was described by the respondents
Empowerment · Mental health · Perspective (graphical · Physical health · Psychiatry · Public health · Qualitative research · Recreation · Social determinants of health · Social science · Sociology · Thematic analysis · Community Health and Development · Health, psychology, and well-being · Medicine · Nursing · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being · Psychology · Gerontology · Social Psychology
Optimism and Physical Health
Social representations
Prenatal Care Use Among Women of Low Income
Common-Sense Descriptions of Depression as Social Representations
Variations in Lay Health Theories
Health and disease
Models of health and disease
Causal beliefs about depression in depressed patients, clinical psychologists and lay persons
Using thematic analysis in psychology
A Theory of Human Need
Patient Power and Control
Illness explanations among patients with medically unexplained symptoms
Diabetes
Women's Experiences of Stigma in Relation to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia
The causes of disease
Making Sense of illness
Accounts of health and illness
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |