Tracks

Chairs: Rik Crutzen (NL), Felix Naughton (UK)

The use of information technology, social media, or mobile and wireless devices in health psychology research and interventions

Chairs: Geir Arild Espnes (Norway), Evangelos Karademas (Greece)

Resilience factors and individual difference variables in relation to health and illness

Chairs: Andrea Horn (Switzerland), Georgia Panayiotou (Cyprus)

How psychosocial demands and resources affect emotional distress, coping and health outcomes (except coping with chronic illness, see track 5)

Chairs: Anna Levke Brütt (Germany), Martin Dempster (Ireland)

Contributions related to goal or self-regulation theory, including self-determination theory, the common sense model and illness perceptions

Chairs: Veronique de Gucht (NL), Ronan O’Carroll (UK)

Issues associated with health and illness associated with pain, chronic illness, or psychosomatic issues (except interventions, see track 6)

Chairs: Trudie Chalder (UK), Maria Karekla (Cyprus)

Interventions delivered to patients or high risk individuals (e.g. hypertension, obesity)

Chairs: Kevin McKee (Sweden), Lisa Marie Warner (Germany)

Issues in health and illness related to older age and ageing (e.g., disability, caregiving)

Chairs: Marios Adonis (Cyprus), Mariët Hagedoorn (NL)

How social support impacts on health outcomes

Chairs: Maria da Graça Pereira Alves (Portugal), Jan Willem Nieuwenboom (Switzerland)

Issues in health and illness associated with development of children and adolescents and with family relations

Chairs: AnnMarie Groarke (Ireland), Maria Teresa Munoz Sastre (France)

Health, illness and positive aspects such as positive emotions, life satisfaction, and functioning

Chairs: Molly Byrne (Ireland), Sonia Lippke (Germany)

The application of theoretical models (e.g., social cognition models, dual process models) to the prediction of health behaviour

Chairs: Denise de Ridder (NL), Lena Fleig (Germany/Canada)

Theory-based interventions aimed at health behavior change

Chairs: Nelli Hankonen (Finland), Rachel Povey (UK)

Public health interventions delivered to a group or population, including environmental interventions and interventions at the worksite (for work and health, see track 17)

Chairs: Peter Harris (UK), Rob Ruiter (NL)

Perception and communication of health risk, including genetic risk and procession of health-risk information (including self-affirmation)

Chairs: Karen Morgan (Malaysia/Ireland), Efharis Panagopoulou (GR)

Quality of health care, medical performance and medical mistakes, and communication with health professionals (e.g., doctor-patient)

Chairs: Elvira Cicognani (Italy), Antonia Lyons (New Zealand)

Cultural or socioeconomic aspects of health and illness, and health effects of social change; critical health psychology

Chairs: Anthony Montgomery (Greece), Margot van der Doef (NL)

Studies on the impact of work on health outcomes

Chairs: Claus Vögele (Luxembourg), Mark Wetherell  (UK)

Psychobiological aspects of health and illness, psychoneuroimmunology, endocrinology, cardio- vascular psychophysiology and neurophysiology

Chairs: Frank Doyle (Ireland), Wendy Hardeman (UK)

Methodological issues in health psychology – techniques, analyses, and critiques