What is health psychology? What are some of the harmful effects of isolation on physical health, including risk for second heart attacks?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Health psychology: the study of behavioral and psychological factors that affect illness. Loneliness is associated with sleep disturbances, cancer, headaches, and weaker immune responses. In addition, lack of social support following an initial heart attack can decrease the likelihood of a second heart attack.
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a. toddlers. b. preschoolers. c. grade-schoolers. d. teenagers.
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