Lifespan Final Exam questions with
complete solutions
What is health? - correct answer ✔✔-WHO (World Health Organization) definition
-State of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity (1948-2003)
-Formal wholeness or completeness which continually changes (Jensen & Allen,
1993)
-Perfect or ideal health is a state of complete physical, mental, social, and spiritual
well-being (Institute for the Future, 2000-2010)
What is wellness? - correct answer ✔✔-H.L. Dunn (1961) - "an integrated method
of functioning which is oriented toward maximizing the potential of which the
individual is capable"
-Corbin & Pangrazi (2001) - "a multidimensional state of being describing the
existence of positive health in an individual as exemplified by quality of life and a
sense of well-being"
-President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports Research Digest, Series 3 n15
Dec 2001
Can one be both ill and well? - correct answer ✔✔Yes
The absence of disease does not guarantee the - correct answer ✔✔presence of
health
,What is wellness? - correct answer ✔✔-Adams, Bezner & Steinhardt (1997) - "the
sense that one is living in a manner that permits the experience of consistent,
balanced growth in the physical, spiritual, emotional, intellectual, social, and
psychological dimensions of human existence"
-Many people, the public and health educators alike, equate wellness with
physical wellness., Conrad in 1994 surveyed 54 college students to determine
what they considered wellness, and the most common responses were exercise,
dieting and nutrition, which would all fall into the physical dimension.
PT's as a whole have also equated wellness with physical wellness.
What does the APTA classify as wellness? - correct answer ✔✔-APTA- "Guide to PT
Practice"
-concepts that embrace positive health behaviors that promote a state of physical
and mental balance and fitness"
-APTA states In their Education Strategic Plan for Vision 2020 that PTs should have
a role as exercise expert and to expand and revise areas related to wellness
(especially fitness) in their "Guide to PT Practice".
-Fair (2006)- "A lifestyle that promotes physical, mental, and social health in the
cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains, both internally and externally."
The picture of health - correct answer ✔✔health is a state of complete physical,
mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease of infirmity.
, Components of the wellness wheel - correct answer ✔✔physical
social
environmental
intellectual
spiritual
emotional
Health definition - correct answer ✔✔-A state of being, an outcome, objective,
body only
-Health-Disease continuum
Wellness definition - correct answer ✔✔-a lifestyle process, includes mind and
body, subjective
-Wellness-Illness continuum
Research on perceptions - correct answer ✔✔-Mossey & Shapiro (1982) - large
group of noninstitutionalized > 65 clients
-"For your age would you say, in general, your health is excellent, good, fair, poor
or bad?"
-Self-rated health was the strongest predictor of mortality, after age 50
-The way a person views his health is importantly related to subsequent health
outcomes
Perceptions - correct answer ✔✔-How well you THINK you are is more predictive
than how well you actually are!
complete solutions
What is health? - correct answer ✔✔-WHO (World Health Organization) definition
-State of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity (1948-2003)
-Formal wholeness or completeness which continually changes (Jensen & Allen,
1993)
-Perfect or ideal health is a state of complete physical, mental, social, and spiritual
well-being (Institute for the Future, 2000-2010)
What is wellness? - correct answer ✔✔-H.L. Dunn (1961) - "an integrated method
of functioning which is oriented toward maximizing the potential of which the
individual is capable"
-Corbin & Pangrazi (2001) - "a multidimensional state of being describing the
existence of positive health in an individual as exemplified by quality of life and a
sense of well-being"
-President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports Research Digest, Series 3 n15
Dec 2001
Can one be both ill and well? - correct answer ✔✔Yes
The absence of disease does not guarantee the - correct answer ✔✔presence of
health
,What is wellness? - correct answer ✔✔-Adams, Bezner & Steinhardt (1997) - "the
sense that one is living in a manner that permits the experience of consistent,
balanced growth in the physical, spiritual, emotional, intellectual, social, and
psychological dimensions of human existence"
-Many people, the public and health educators alike, equate wellness with
physical wellness., Conrad in 1994 surveyed 54 college students to determine
what they considered wellness, and the most common responses were exercise,
dieting and nutrition, which would all fall into the physical dimension.
PT's as a whole have also equated wellness with physical wellness.
What does the APTA classify as wellness? - correct answer ✔✔-APTA- "Guide to PT
Practice"
-concepts that embrace positive health behaviors that promote a state of physical
and mental balance and fitness"
-APTA states In their Education Strategic Plan for Vision 2020 that PTs should have
a role as exercise expert and to expand and revise areas related to wellness
(especially fitness) in their "Guide to PT Practice".
-Fair (2006)- "A lifestyle that promotes physical, mental, and social health in the
cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains, both internally and externally."
The picture of health - correct answer ✔✔health is a state of complete physical,
mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease of infirmity.
, Components of the wellness wheel - correct answer ✔✔physical
social
environmental
intellectual
spiritual
emotional
Health definition - correct answer ✔✔-A state of being, an outcome, objective,
body only
-Health-Disease continuum
Wellness definition - correct answer ✔✔-a lifestyle process, includes mind and
body, subjective
-Wellness-Illness continuum
Research on perceptions - correct answer ✔✔-Mossey & Shapiro (1982) - large
group of noninstitutionalized > 65 clients
-"For your age would you say, in general, your health is excellent, good, fair, poor
or bad?"
-Self-rated health was the strongest predictor of mortality, after age 50
-The way a person views his health is importantly related to subsequent health
outcomes
Perceptions - correct answer ✔✔-How well you THINK you are is more predictive
than how well you actually are!
