Psychology and Health Problems

University of Phoenix

Psychology and Health Problems

By: Porcha Jack

PSY/210

Believing in the questions we normally ask why do people have illnesses that cannot be stopped we begin looking into developments. Having a heart attack or cancer, and even HIV ask these question because honestly who wants to have and go through the pain, and suffering all the rest of their life. Multifactorial explains that those questions that need answer’s , due to every question having an answer has hope. Biological factors being your age, gender, culture even pathogens and family history all need answers in case of emergencies, and if diseases are involved. Genetic factors play a part as well with lifestyles, it gets people upset just thinking about what may be a part of them. For instance, cancer it doesn’t dwell on somebody until it’s only them. The multifactorial model in health psychology is a leading paradigm that recognizes the multi-faceted nature of illnesses. It is not a clear-cut, simple case that a disease is caused by a singular factor. The fact is that decades if not over a century of modern research has led to the recognition that a host of factors, as well as their interactions, function in illness and health determination. These varied factors that the multifactorial model indicates to be the range of possible influences or causes of diseases cover the psychological, sociocultural, environmental, and stressors.

Stressors can be developed simply from daily hassles, the text identifies that daily hassles are a big factor on one's self it's your everyday life struggle that you go through that people weren’t aware and couldn’t faze you. Until now realization that one can't let certain everyday life things get in the way of what you have to do towards accomplishing goals. Also unawareness that daily hassles consist of health conditions, which may be due to how you have to think about that every day and it can put a toll on you and change will prosper. Time will...