Summary Table: Key Studies of Determinants of Health (HL IB Psychology)

Revision Note

Written by: Laura Swash

Reviewed by: Lucy Vinson

SUMMARY TABLE: KEY STUDIES OF DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
Topic	Two Key Studies
The Biopsychosocial Model of Health & Well-being Use both of these studies to answer a question on the biopsychosocial model Use Marmot et al. (1997) to answer a question on dispositional factors and health, as a counter-argument	Marmot et al. (1997) Suls & Rothman (2004)
Dispositional Factors & Health Beliefs Use both of these studies to answer a question on dispositional factors and health beliefs Use both of these studies to answer a question on risk factors and health	Rasmussen et al. (2009) Masiero et al. (2015)
Risk Factors and Protective Factors and Health Use both of these studies to answer a question on the role of risk factors and protective factors and health	Haslam et al. (2018) Turbin et al. (2006)

SUMMARY TABLE: KEY STUDIES OF DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH

Topic

Two Key Studies

The Biopsychosocial Model of Health & Well-being

Use both of these studies to answer a question on the biopsychosocial model
Use Marmot et al. (1997) to answer a question on dispositional factors and health, as a counter-argument

Marmot et al. (1997)

Suls & Rothman (2004)

Dispositional Factors & Health Beliefs

Use both of these studies to answer a question on dispositional factors and health beliefs
Use both of these studies to answer a question on risk factors and health

Rasmussen et al. (2009)

Masiero et al. (2015)

Risk Factors and Protective Factors and Health

Use both of these studies to answer a question on the role of risk factors and protective factors and health

Haslam et al. (2018)

Turbin et al. (2006)

IB students have a lot of content to cover (particularly students taking Psychology at Higher Level) so the purpose of this revision resource is to slim down and streamline the number of studies you need per topic/exam question
The exam question command term will be one of the following: ‘Evaluate’, ‘Discuss’, ‘Contrast’ or ‘To what extent’
Each command term requires you to answer the question in slightly different ways, using the content as shown in the summary table above i.e. specific studies per topic/question
In order to slim down the content you need to revise you can see above how some of the studies can be used for more than one potential exam question
Marmot et al. (1997), Rasmussen et al. (2009) and Masiero et al. (2015) can be used to answer more than one potential exam question on Paper 2 content so you may decide to keep all of these studies and ‘throw away’ any studies which you find that you don’t need to revise
Remember that all Paper 2 questions are ERQs (Extended Response Questions) which are worth 22 marks, take an hour to write and need to be rich in critical thinking

Last updated: 31 March 2024

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