Embodied health: a guiding perspective for research in health psychology

Ghane, Arezou; Sweeny, Kate

doi:10.1080/17437199.2012.706988

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“…These approaches downplay the evolving mind–body connection of young women transitioning from adolescence to adulthood (Tanner et al . , Ghane & Sweeny ). As emerging adult women make sexual decisions and interpret diverse meanings of sexual security in their personal relationships, changes in attitudes and beliefs may influence future sexual relationship success (Alexander, K. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA ).…”

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Addressing sexual health behaviour during emerging adulthood: a critical review of the literature

Alexander

Jemmott

Teitelman

et al. 2014

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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Aims and objectives In this critical literature review, we examine evidence-based interventions that target sexual behaviours of 18- to 25-year-old emerging adult women. Background Nurses and clinicians implement theory-driven research programmes for young women with increased risk of HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections. Strategies to decrease transmission of HIV and sexually transmitted infections are rigorously evaluated and promoted by public health agencies such as the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While many interventions demonstrate episodic reductions in sexual risk behaviours and infection transmission, there is little evidence they build sustainable skills and behaviours. Programmes may not attend to contextual and affective influences on sexual behaviour change. Design Discursive paper. Methods We conducted a conceptually based literature review and critical analysis of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s best-evidence and good-evidence HIV behavioural interventions. In this review, we examined three contextual and affective influences on the sexual health of emerging adult women: (1) developmental age, (2) reproduction and pregnancy desires and (3) sexual security or emotional responses accompanying relationship experiences. Results Our analyses revealed intervention programmes paid little attention to ways age, desires for pregnancy or emotional factors influence sexual decisions. Some programmes included 18- to 25-year-olds, but they made up small percentages of the sample and did not attend to unique emerging adult experiences. Second, primary focus on infection prevention overshadowed participant desires for pregnancy. Third, few interventions considered emotional mechanisms derived from relationship experiences involved in sexual decision-making. Conclusions Growing evidence demonstrates sexual health interventions may be more effective if augmented to attend to contextual and affective influences on relationship risks and decision-making. Modifying currently accepted strategies may enhance sustainability of sexual health-promoting behaviours.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Addressing sexual health behaviour during emerging adulthood: a critical review of the literature

Alexander

Jemmott

Teitelman

et al. 2014

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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“…Furthermore, health promotion literature might be more effective if placed in higher spatial areas requiring people to look up towards it. Along the same lines, verbal information about health may be more effective if delivered from a higher plane, thus adding to the increasing literature around embodiment in health settings [ 61 – 63 ].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Look Up for Healing: Embodiment of the Heal Concept in Looking Upward

2015

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ObjectiveConceptual processing may not be restricted to the mind. The heal concept has been metaphorically associated with an “up” bodily posture. Perceptual Symbol Systems (PSS) theory suggests that this association is underpinned by bodily states which occur during learning and become instantiated as the concept. Thus the aim of this study was to examine whether processing related to the heal concept is promoted by priming the bodily state of looking upwards.MethodWe used a mixed 2x2 priming paradigm in which 58 participants were asked to evaluate words as either related to the heal concept or not after being primed to trigger the concept of looking up versus down (Direction – within subjects). A possible dose-response effect of priming was investigated via allocating participants to two ‘strengths’ of prime, observing an image of someone whose gaze was upward/downward (low strength) and observing an image of someone whose gaze was upward/downward while physically tilting their head upwards or downwards in accord with the image (high strength) (Strength – between subjects).ResultsParticipants responded to words related to heal faster than words unrelated to heal across both “Strength” conditions. There was no evidence that priming was stronger in the high strength condition.ConclusionThe present study found that, consistent with a PSS view of cognition, the heal concept is embodied in looking upward, which has important implications for cognition, general health, health psychology, health promotion and therapy.

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“…For instance, some researchers see CMT as assisting in bridging the gap between psychological and medical research traditions with potentially wide-ranging advancement in the field of health psychology. Taking seriously that the concept of "health" acquires conceptual coherence due to its being mapped onto the vertical dimension of space (Crawford, 2009), recent work explores CMT as a means to help ensure positive development in health care contexts and to contribute to promoting prophylactic behavior (including adherence to treatment) and physician/patient communication (Sherman, Gangi, and White, 2010;Gangi, Sherman, and White, 2011;Ghane and Sweeny, 2013). A recent study found that, consistent with CMT, the concept of "healing," when referring to both physical and psychological conditions, is metaphorically linked with an "up" bodily posture.…”

Section: Cmt and Mental Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Embodied Concepts and Mental Health

Varga

2018

The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine

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Often drawing on the phenomenological tradition, a number of philosophers and cognitive scientists working in the field of "embodied cognition" subscribe to the general view that cognition is grounded in aspects of its sensorimotor embodiment and should be comprehended as the result of a dynamic interaction of nonneural and neural processes. After a brief introduction, the paper critically engages Lakoff and Johnson's "conceptual metaphor theory" (CMT), and provides a review of recent empirical evidence that appears to support it. Subsequently, the paper underscores some of the limitations of CMT, points to some philosophical problems that require further attention, and explores possible implications for understanding and treating of mental disorders.

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Embodied health: a guiding perspective for research in health psychology

Cited by 15 publications

References 96 publications

Addressing sexual health behaviour during emerging adulthood: a critical review of the literature

Addressing sexual health behaviour during emerging adulthood: a critical review of the literature

Look Up for Healing: Embodiment of the Heal Concept in Looking Upward

Embodied Concepts and Mental Health

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