Question

Select three psychosocial factors that affect health behavior. What are some of the common ailments that are associated with the factors you selected? Of the three factors you selected, which one do you think has the largest effect on public health? Explain your answer.

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Answer 1

Basically psychosocial factor means a social component which affects a person psychologically. There are various kind of psychosocial factor that affects health behaviour. In below we discuss only three kind of psychosocial factors :

• Income : Lower income of a family is highly affacts a person's psychological health. It can help to increase stress or anxiety. And Stress or anxiety helps to release some special hormones that directly impact on our brain.
• Job satisfaction : This is the most ultimate need which is essential to all of us in a workplace. Job satisfaction define an employee how much happy or involved with his work. A lack of job satisfaction can injurious for a person's health behaviour. A person with dissatisfied with his job, can increase the risk of industrial accident and suicide.
• Marriage status : Marriage status indirectly affects our health behaviour. A unmarried person have a tend on smoking, alcoholism and other socially rejected activities that greatly affects person's psychological and physiological health behaviour.

There are some of the common ailments that are associated with the factors :

1. Generally poor income of a person is more anxious, depressed and stressful than a person with good income. Stress can make life complex. Stress can badly effect on our body both physiological and psychologically. Some physiological effects are : heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, digestive problems, cardiovascular disease, stroke, heart attack etc. As well as stress can effect on psychological health also. Stress leads of unable to concentrate in any specific thinks, lower level of decision making, lower level of self esteem, lack of confidence, having conflicts, and high level of anxiety or depression etc.
2. Workplace accident is very dangerous in industry. Accidents happens from unsafe behavior and job dissatisfaction.
3. A unmarried person is more depressed than a married person. Depression is a mood disorder that effects in our daily life and feeling like depressed, restless, worthless and also fatigued. It is a emotional state which destroy our daily life functions.

Within these three component income has the largest affect on public health. A person with lower income are more depressed than others. And depression is a serious mental disorder that affects our everyday life.

Emotional stress can play a role of causing depression, and it can effect our life as well. Any stressful situation can make difficulty of our human life, and its tend to turn into depression. As a example: losing job, marriage problem, sexual affair and all.

How depression could affect in human behaviour:

As depression is a serious mental disorder so it affects your life. There are some points mention in below-

1. Depression effects our career, job, education and any relationship also. It can destroy our aim and ambitions.
2. Depression not only effects our health, it also effects our mind. A long time depressed person can harmfull because they tend to involved with any abusive behaviour or social violence activities.
3. Depression can effect our personality. It can decrease our self esteem, confidence and will power.
4. Depression can cause of bad performance in job sector because lack of energy and concentreation.
5. Depression can increase the high risk of heart disease, diabetes etc.