Welfare and Health Promotion Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Social Psychology, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland; Department of Social Research/Social Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany; Consumer Society Resear...

Wherever we undertake the task of ministering not only to the body but to the mind, our working basis must be psychology. In social work this psychology must be more particularly social psychology, for we are dealing with human beings as members of society. We are considering the physical welfare of individuals merely as a contributory factor to their social welfare. All social work, then, shou...

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Health psychology as a field of research and practice formally developed 30 years ago but it was prefigured by sustained debate within social and applied psychology about the nature of psychology and its role in society. This article considers this pre-history of health psychology and how the field has subsequently developed. It considers how its character is shaped by dominant ideas within psy...

Background Social media, defined as interactive Web applications, have been on the rise globally, particularly among adults. The objective of this study was to investigate the trend of the literature related to the most used social network worldwide (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Snapchat, and Instagram) in the field of psychology. Specifically, this study will assess the growth in publicat...

America's dual interest in social welfare and practical science fueled the emergence of social psychology in the late 19th century. By that century's end, psychologists had presented diverse and sometimes contesting models of social psychology. These varied conceptualizations, however, were challenged by the discipline's growing dedication to the scientific method and experimentation, as well a...