Actual Issues of Health Psychology

The article regards some methodological and research problems of health psychology. It reveals the theme of the main questions studied in the field of health psychology: people’s motivation to keep and strengthen their own health, self-regulation skills development, improvement of life quality and coping abilities in the situation of the disease. The article shows the spectrum of the basic behavior patterns that promote or hinder health (smoking, alcohol abuse, physical exercise, sports, medical examinations, etc.) that are commonly targeted professionals in the field of health. We analyze the methodological eclecticism of research and the need to build internally more coherent theoretical studies to examine different forms of behavior within health psychology. The necessity to strengthen the integration and effective communication of health psychology and medicine is discussed.

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