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Life-style, Health, and Stress: A Summary
As you have learned, psychological factors
can and do affect our physical health. This exercise provides an
overview of how several important psychological factors interact to
affect health. Your task is to complete the table below by filling in
the missing sections with the correct term or phrase from the list of
terms and phrases also given below. (Note: The order in which you place
each of the four life-style factors in the table is not important;
complete this section using any order of these factors.)
This exercise should be very easy for you to complete, but its message
is important. When you finish completing the table, study it for a few
minutes and ask yourself how the psychological factors operating in your
life might be affecting the quality of your health and life.
List of Terms and Phrases
- Effective
- Heavy Drinking
- High-fat Diet
- Ineffective
- Little or No Exercise
- Little or No Drinking
- Low-fat Diet
- Non-Threatening
- Not Smoking
- Regular Aerobic Exercise
- Smoking
- Threatening
- Lifestyle, Stress, and Coping Summary Table
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