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The Social Cure Approach to Understanding Health and Illness Flashcards

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Our social capital has reduced. (ref)

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Putnam (2000)

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If you belong to no groups but decide to join one, you cut your risk of dying over the next year by ________.

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50%

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Lacking social connection may be as damaging for health as smoking _______ cigarettes a day (ref).

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Holt-lundstadt (2010)

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If you have few connections, why may giving up smoking be bad for you?

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Because people smoke in groups and socialise in smoking areas.

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PICO Holt-lundstadt et al (2010) meta analysis.

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P = 148 studies N = 300,000
O = social relationships are sig. related with survival. survival is also linked to loneliness and perceptions of support.
Loneliness is a greater health risk than other well known factors e.g. obesity & inactivity.

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Social groups offer _______ to form ________.

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opportunities, meaningful connections (collective sense of self)

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Sharing experiences e.g. of symptoms can be extremely __________.

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Valuable

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A growing body of work highlights the role played by group membership in structuring our health experiences (ref).

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Haslam et al (2009)

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Group membership is critical for _______ and _______.

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Giving meaning to health experiences (providing a sense for sense making), providing a normative env. which structures and regulates our behavioural decisions.

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Who developed social identity theory/social cognitive theory? (ref)

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SIT - Tajfel & Turner (1979)

SCT - Turner et al (1987)

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What do SIT and SCT look to explain?

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  • relationship between self and the group
  • inter-group behaviour (prejudice and discrimination)
  • complexity, richness and variety of the social world
  • how our group memberships structure our relationship with the world.
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Social identity is a frame of reference: social identity gives us a ________, _________ and a ________.

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Sense of belonging
Source of self esteem
Source of support

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Social identity is a frame of reference: What is BIRGing and CORFing and who studied them? (ref)

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BIRGing = Basking in reflected glory
CORFing = cutting off reflected failure
Cialdini et al (1976)

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Social identity is a frame of reference: In his classic study of 1976, what did Cialdini find? (BIRGing).

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P = 7 U.S schools/football fans
I = study 1 looked at apparel  on Monday after a big game the results were -> sig. more students wearing stash after a win, than after a loss.
I = study 2 gave fake pos/neg general knowledge test feedback, then asked students to describe the outcome of a recent game. results -> neg group more likely to use 'we' for a win and 'they' for a loss, which shows we are more likely to BIRG and CORF when our own identity is under threat.
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Social identity is a frame of reference: Groups are central to our ability to engage effectively with the social world (ref).

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Haslam (2009)

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Social identity ‘value’ is relative: We compare our groups with relevant others. This may be driven by _______ but often leads to ________.

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Knowledge needs

Bias

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Social identity ‘value’ is relative: Therefore the SIT and SCT give a theory of _______ and ___________

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Prejudice

Interpersonal relations

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Social identity is fluid: Social identity is _______ dependant.

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Context

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Social identity is fluid: We can access ______ identities at a time.

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Various

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Social identity is fluid: Our salient identity influences how we ________.

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Behave and see social world

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Social identity is fluid: Empathy for someone in need depends on our _______ to them.

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Relationship (in group/out group)

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Social identity guides behaviour: social identities _______ and _______ values and behaviour.

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Prescribe

Describe i.e. they tell us what we should be doing and what other in group members are doing.

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Social identity guides behaviour: people adhere to _______ especially when ______ is important to them.

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group norms

social identity

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Social identity guides behaviour: categorising _____ members as _______ inc. ________.

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Outgroup
Ingroup
empathy

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Social identity guides behaviour: social identity guides behaviour in _______ as much as other behaviours.

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Health

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Experiencing health symptoms: Describe Levine et al (2005) study

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Study of MUFC fan behaviour.
DV = number of fans who helped
IV = victim identity
Results -> when the victim was wearing a LFC shirt, 30% participants helped them. when the victim was wearing a MUFC shirt, 92% people helped them.
Further studies -> showed if you manipulated the salience of football fan/mufc fan identity this moderated the outcome.

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Experiencing health symptoms: What inferences can be made from Levine et al’s (2005) study?

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More likely to help and be helped by people we share an identity with.
Social identity structures how we experience other peoples health symptoms.

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Experiencing health symptoms: Who found evidence that illness labels operate in a similar way to group labels? interns of self categorisation. (ref)

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St Claire et al (2008)

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Experiencing health symptoms: Who hypothesised that self categorisation in terms of illness labels should lead to symptom perceptions in line with that label? (ref)

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St Claire et al (2008)

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Experiencing health symptoms: Describe St Claire et al’s (2008) study - PICO

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P = N 60 participants (cold sufferers) 
I = cold prime or no cold prime
O = cold sufferers report more intense cold symptoms this effect was qualified by the prime i.e. those primed to focus on the cold reported more intense symptoms.
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Experiencing health symptoms: Implications of St Claire et al’s (2008) study

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Illness labels (social identity) inform our perception of existing symptoms.

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Experiencing health symptoms: Who looked at whether self categorisation/social connections also structure the development of illness symptoms? (ref)

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Cohen et al (1997)

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Experiencing health symptoms: Outline the procedure used by Cohen et al (1997).

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N = 276 healthy volunteers -> baseline measures of demographics, health practices and social network diversity -> given a rhino virus (cold causing infection) -> then blind assessors tested for symptoms.

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Experiencing health symptoms: Outline the results found by Cohen et al (1997).

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Those more social ties were less susceptible to cold, as assessed by subjective self report and objective mucus production. This was not explained by other factors.

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Experiencing health symptoms: Outline the implications of Cohen et al’s (1997) study.

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Bio health accounts are structured by health categorisation. This may explain why some people repeatedly seek medical advise, for which others would see as trivial.

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Give an example of categorisation on the part of Healthcare professionals (representativeness bias)

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Chest pain in middle aged men is taken more seriously than women, as men this age stereotypically associated with heart problems.

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Social support: define social support and give a ref.

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Social interaction/relationships that provide actual assistance or with a feeling of attachment to a person/group, that is perceived as loving/caring. Hobfol & Stokes (1988).

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Social support: who conducted a meta analysis of 88 studies on the relationships between SS, health and coping?

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Schwarzer & Leppin (1991)

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Social support: What were the findings of Schwarzer & Leppins (1991) meta analysis?

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Most studies reported pos correlation between SS and health (r less than .43). Some reported neg (r less than -.17) small overall effect.

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Social support: Why might there be a neg correlation between SS and health?

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Interpersonal conflict is the biggest daily stressor. Bolger (1989)

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Social support: Give evidence for the negative effects of social conflict on health

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Cohen (1998) found social conflict was related to inc. cold symptoms following virus exposure.

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Social support: What was the conclusion of Schwarzer & Leppin’s meta analysis (1991)?

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Perception of support is critical, in the context of SIT social support is structured by the nature of the relationship between provider and recipient.

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Social support: Give 3 pieces of evidence why support form the ingroup is more likely to be experienced as supportive

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  1. Trust in group members more (Hornsey et al 2002)
  2. Empathise more with ingroup (Tarrant et al 2009)
  3. More likely help and be helped by ingroup (Levine 2005).
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Social support: In terms of social identities clinical interactions represent ________.

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intergroup relationships.

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Behavioural Decisions: Describe Oyserman et al’s (2007) study

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Looked at health inequalities across minority and majority groups in the U.S.

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Behavioural Decisions: Describe findings of Oyserman et al’s (2007) study.

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Minority and low income groups consider eating healthily and exercise as outgroup behaviours, and more health fatalistic ‘some healthy, others die young’
For these groups, health is not ingroup normative.

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Behavioural Decisions: Who looked at whether manipulating social identity can help to inc. health behaviours?

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Tarrant & Butler (2010)

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Behavioural Decisions: PICO Tarrant and Butlers 2010 study.

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P = 50 British students
I = social identity prime 'study of students/british people' (students identity is associated with greater risk taking)
O = Identity relevance of reducing salt intake/alcohol consumption and intention to perform these actions.
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Behavioural Decisions: Results of Tarrant and Butlers (2010) study.

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Student group = rated reducing salt intake/alcohol intake within safe limits as less health relevant and rated lower on intentions to perform these actions than those in the nationality group.

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Behavioural Decisions: Implications of Tarrant and Butlers (2010) study.

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Different social identities prescribe different orientation towards health. Activating meaningful health affirming identity can activate health promoting cognitions, however intention does not = behaviour.

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Behavioural Decisions: Identify two studies which have looked at whether invoking social identity can encourage healthy behaviours.

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  1. Tarrant, Khan and Qin (2015) Making healthy identities salient/creating new ones
  2. Postmes et al (2005) Changing the content of social identity.
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The stronger ones psychological connection to a group the more likely one is to adhere to the groups ________.

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Norms

53
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When group norms don’t value _______ neg _______ ________ follows and vice versa.

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Health

Health orientation

54
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Who conducted a systematic review of 10 studies looking at online health promotion interventions?

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Maher et al (2014)

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What were the findings of Maher et al’s (2014) systematic review?

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Modest evidence for the effectiveness of online HP interventions. 9/10 studies reported some kind health behaviour improvement, however effect sizes generally small and non sig.

56
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Who looked at social relationships and physiological determinants of longevity across the lifespan?

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Yang et al (2016)

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Describe Yang et al’s 2016 study, what were there findings?

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Looking at data from 4 longitudinal U.S studies they found higher degree of social integration was associated with reduced risk of physiological dysregulation in a dose response manner, in early and later life.
Social isolation inc. risk of inflammation in adolescence and had a big effect on hyper-tension in old age.

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We trust ingroup members more: Describe the study by Hornsey et al. (2002)

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They gave participants positive and negative statements about the in-group (Australians) and varied the source of the statements as in/outgroup (Australian/british). The results were that participants rated the negative outgroup statements as harsher and showed lower agreement and more sensitivity. This demonstrates that we trust the motives of ingroup members more.

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We have more empathy for the ingroup: Describe Tarrant et al’s (2009) study

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N = 370

1. University students report more empathy and intention to help individuals from an ingroup than an outgroup uni

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