With regard to health behaviors, which personality trait enables us to adopt healthy and therefore preventive behaviors?
a. introspection
b. competitiveness
c. conformity
d. self-efficacy
D
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a. the 1980s; hypertension b. the 1940s; peptic ulcer disease c. the 1920s; heart disease d. the 1960s; lung cancer