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A relationship between perceived self-efficacy and quality of life in cancer patients.
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In a heterogeneous sample of 273 cancer patients a strong positive correlation was found betweenSelf-efficacy and quality of life and between self- efficacy and mood and Improvements in all three measures brought about by a brief, group program teaching coping skills were also highly correlated.About:
This article is published in Patient Education and Counseling.The article was published on 1991-02-01. It has received 190 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Coping (psychology) & Mood.read more
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Health promotion from the perspective of social cognitive theory
TL;DR: Examination of health promotion and disease prevention from the perspective of social cognitive theory finds the areas of overlap with some of the most widely applied psychosocial models of health are identified.
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A critical appraisal of the quality of quality-of-life measurements
TL;DR: To evaluate how well quality of life is being measured in the medical literature and to offer a new approach to the measurement, original English-language articles having the term "quality of life" in their titles were identified.
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Controlling ourselves, controlling our world: Psychology's role in understanding positive and negative consequences of seeking and gaining control.
TL;DR: Philosophy of science and paradigmatic issues underlying control theories are highlighted, particularly as they affect psychology's role in examining values toward which control efforts should be directed and are important for people's personal and collective well-being.
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Social cognitive theory and cancer patients' quality of life : a meta-analysis of psychosocial intervention components
TL;DR: Subanalyses of affective, social, objective physical outcome, and specific QOL measures revealed that SCT-based interventions had significantly higher effect sizes; inclusion of SCT components resulted in significantly lower effect sizes on subjective physical and functional outcomes.
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Locus of Control and Self-Efficacy: Potential Mediators of Stress, Illness, and Utilization of Health Services in College Students
Angela Roddenberry,Kimberly Renk +1 more
TL;DR: Investigation of the mediating effects of locus of control and self-efficacy in the relationships among stress, illness, and the utilization of health services in a sample of 159 college students suggests that participants who endorse higher levels of stress also endorse lower levels of illness.
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Stress, appraisal, and coping
Richard S. Lazarus,Susan Folkman +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a detailed theory of psychological stress, building on the concepts of cognitive appraisal and coping, which have become major themes of theory and investigation in psychology.
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Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of reward or reinforcement on preceding behavior depend in part on whether the person perceives the reward as contingent on his own behavior or independent of it, and individuals may also differ in generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.
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Social learning theory
TL;DR: In this article, an exploración de the avances contemporaneos en la teoria del aprendizaje social, con especial enfasis en los importantes roles que cumplen los procesos cognitivos, indirectos, and autoregulatorios.
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Self-efficacy mechanism in human agency
TL;DR: The centrality of the self-efficacy mechanism in human agency is discussed in this paper, where the influential role of perceived collective effi- cacy in social change is analyzed, as are the social con- ditions conducive to development of collective inefficacy.
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Development of the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control (MHLC) Scales
TL;DR: The development of the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control scales is described, which are developed to tap beliefs that the source of reinforcements for health-related behaviors is primarily in ternal, a matter of chance, or under the control of powerful others.