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Self-affirmation and self-control: counteracting defensive processing of health information and facilitating health behavior change

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posted on 2023-06-09, 01:34 authored by Guido M van Koningsbruggen, Eleanor MilesEleanor Miles, Pete HarrisPete Harris
Accepting personally relevant health information and successfully changing one’s health behavior accordingly is valuable for long-term health and wellbeing. However, both steps pose different self-control dilemmas. It is no surprise, therefore, that people may resist health information and maintain unhealthy behavior. In this chapter, we consider the problem of responding adaptively to health risk information from a self-control perspective, and discuss how a self-affirmation intervention (that typically requires people to reflect on their important personal values or attributes) may improve self-control in the context of health information processing and health behavior change.

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  • Published

File Version

  • Accepted version

Publisher

Routledge

Page range

495-507

Pages

528.0

Book title

Handbook of self-control in health and wellbeing

Place of publication

Abingdon-on-Thames

ISBN

9781138123861

Series

Routledge International Handbooks

Department affiliated with

  • Psychology Publications

Full text available

  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Denise de Ridder, Kentaro Fujita, Marieke Adriaanse

Legacy Posted Date

2016-06-22

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-06-22

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