Abstract
This article outlines the Health Adversity Risk Model, which is an integrative social psychological model for predicting health outcomes. Focusing on sexual health in university students in the United Kingdom, it is argued that experiencing identity threat may lead people to engage in coping strategies that can in turn affect health outcomes. Some coping strategies are adaptive and others maladaptive. People facing identity threat can be supported to elect adaptive coping strategies conducive to better health outcomes. Health psychologists may find tenets of the Health Adversity Risk Model useful for designing interventions for enhancing sexual health outcomes in university students.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Health Psychology Update |
| Publication status | Accepted/In press - 7 Apr 2025 |