ALBERT  BANDURA

Health

Social Cognitive Theory shifts the field of health from a disease model to a health model that focuses on disease prevention and health promotion. There are two major ways in which people's belief in their efficacy affects their health. At the more basic level, such beliefs act on biological systems that mediate health and illness. The quality of health is heavily influenced by lifestyle habits. The second mode of health promotion centers on adoption of healthful habits through development of self-regulatory skills. By exercising control over several health habits people can live longer and healthier lives, and slow the process of aging. The quality of health of a nation is a social matter, not just a personal one. It requires changing the practices of social systems that impair health rather than just changing the habits of individuals.

Bandura, A. (2004). Health promotion by social cognitive means. Health Education & Behavior, 31, 143-164.
Bandura, A. (1991). Self-efficacy mechanism in physiological activation and health-promoting behavior. In J. Madden, IV (Ed.), Neurobiology of learning, emotion and affect (pp. 229-269). New York: Raven.
Bandura, A. (2011) Social and policy impact of social cognitive theory. In M. M. Mark, S.I. Donaldson & B. Campell (Eds.). Social psychology and evaluation (pp.33-70). New York; Guilford.
Bandura, A. (2005). The growing centrality of self-regulation in health promotion and disease prevention. The European Health Psychologist, 1, 11-12.
Bandura, A. (2005). The primacy of self-regulation in health promotion. Applied Psychology: an International Review, 54, 245-254.
Bandura, A. (2000). Psychological aspects of prognostic judgments. In R. Evans, D. Baskin, & F. Yatsu (Eds.), Prognosis of neurological disorders (pp. 11-27). New York: Oxford University Press.
Bandura, A. (1994). Social cognitive theory and exercise of control over HIV infection. In R. J. DiClemente and J. L. Peterson (Eds.), Preventing AIDS: Theories and methods of behavioral interventions (pp. 25-59). New York: Plenum.
Bandura, A. (1999). A sociocognitive analysis of substance abuse: An agentic perspective. Psychological Science, 10, 214-217.
Benight, C. C. & Bandura, A. (2004). Social cognitive theory of posttraumatic recovery: The role of perceived self-efficacy. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 42, 1129-1148.
Bandura, A. (1998). Health promotion from the perspective of social cognitive theory. Psychology and Health, 13, 623-649.
Bandura, A. (1997). The anatomy of stages of change. American Journal of Health Promotion, 12, 8-10.

RESEARCH

Bandura, A., & Simon, K. M. (1977). The role of proximal intentions in self-regulation of refractory behavior. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 1, 177-193.
Taylor, C. B., Bandura, A., Ewart, C. K., Miller, N. H., & DeBusk, R. F. (1985). Exercise testing to enhance wives’ confidence in their husbands’ cardiac capability after clinically uncomplicated acute myocardial infarction. American Journal of Cardiology, 55, 635-638.
Bandura, A., Taylor, C. B., Williams, S. L., Mefford, I. N., Barchas, J. D. (1985). Catecholamine secretion as a function of perceived coping self-efficacy. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 53, 406-414.
Bandura, A., Cioffi, D., Taylor, C., & Brouillard, M. (1988). Perceived self-efficacy in coping with cognitive stressors and opioid activation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 55, 479-488.
Bandura, A., O’Leary, A., Taylor, C. B., Gauthier, J., & Gossard, D (1987). Perceived self-efficacy and pain control: Opioid and nonopioid mechanisms. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 53, 563-571.
Wiedenfeld, S. A., O’Leary, A., Bandura, A., Brown, S., Levine, S., & Raska, K. (1990). Impact of perceived self-efficacy in coping with stressors on components of the immune system. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 59, 1082-1094.
Lorig, K. R., Ritter, P., Stewart, A. L., Sobel, D. S., Brown, Jr., B. W., Bandura, A., Gonzales, V. M., Laurent, D. D., & Holman, H. R. (2001). Chronic disease self-management programs: 2-year health status and health care utilization outcomes. Medical Care, 39, 1217-1223.
DeBusk, R.F., Miller, N.H., Parker, K.M., Bandura, A., Kraemer, H.C., Chen, D.J., West, J.A. Fowler, M.B., & Greenwald, G. (2004). Care management for low-risk patients with heart failure. Annals of Internal Medicine, 141, 606-613.
Lorig, K. R., Sobel, D. S., Stewart, A. L., Brown, Jr. B. W., Bandura, A., Ritter, P., Gonzalez, V. M., Laurent, D. D., & Holman, H. R. (1999). Evidence suggesting that a chronic disease self-management program can improve health status while reducing hospitalization: A randomized trial. Medical Care, 37, 5-14.
Rudd, P., Miller, N., Kaufman, J., Kraemer, H., Bandura, A., Greenwald, G. & Debusk, R. (2004). Nurse management for hypertension: A systems approach. American Journal of Hypertension, 17, 921-927.

BOOKS

Bandura A. (1997). Self-Efficacy: The exercise of control New York: Freeman (chapter 7).
Bandura, A. (2023). Social Cognitive Theory: An agentic perspective on human nature. New Jersey: Wiley & Sons.