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Course Syllabus

Bachelor 2024/2025

Research Seminar "Health, Well-Being and Human Behavior" (2024/2025 academic year)

Type: Elective course (Sociology and Social Informatics)
Area of studies: Sociology
Delivered by: Department of Sociology
Where: Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences
When: 2 year, 1-4 module
Mode of studies: offline
Open to: students of one campus
Instructors: Ksenia Eritsyan, Igor Petrov, Vera Titkova
Language: English
ECTS credits: 4

Course Syllabus

Full Syllabus

Abstract

Students will be immersed in the world of social research on health behavior and well-being during the course. We will discuss risks and protective factors, prevention programs, and much other stuff related to children, teenagers, and adults’ health behavior and well-being. Students will become familiar with theories of social behavior and would be able to view research ideas through their lens.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • To provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to detect and describe the social mechanisms of health behavior and well-being.
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • be able to conduct studies and present its results in the form of oral presentation with visual material.
  • be able to juxtaposition theoretical concepts to the analysis of health and well-being behavior.
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Childhood in poverty: development, well-being, and health.
  • Teenagers: health vs. risks
  • Presentation and discussion of students individual research projects
  • Health communication and misinformation: facets, consequences, interventions and study methods
  • Sociology of Death, Bereavement, Grief and Mourning
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Final exam
  • non-blocking Presentation of student's thesis
    It includes an oral presentation with visual materials of the parts of the student's research - research framework, literature review, data description, and preliminary analysis.
  • non-blocking In-class assignments
    The grade will be calculated as an average score for all types of written activities during the seminars.
  • non-blocking Participation in class discussions
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2024/2025 4th module
    0.25 * Final exam + 0.25 * In-class assignments + 0.25 * Participation in class discussions + 0.25 * Presentation of student's thesis
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Allen, D. D., & Wilson, M. (2006). Introducing multidimensional item response modeling in health behavior and health education research. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.69FB7536
  • An introduction to the sociology of health and illness, White, K., 2002
  • L. Kay Bartholomew Eldredge, Christine M. Markham, Robert A. C. Ruiter, Maria E. Fernández, Gerjo Kok, & Guy S. Parcel. (2016). Planning Health Promotion Programs : An Intervention Mapping Approach: Vol. Fourth edition. Jossey-Bass.
  • Living standards and social well-being, , 2012
  • Marisa E. Hilliard, P., Kristin A. Riekert, P., Judith K. Ockene, P. Me. M., & Lori Pbert, P. . (2018). The Handbook of Health Behavior Change, Fifth Edition: Vol. Fifth edition. Springer Publishing Company.
  • Pinar, M. (2018). Multidimensional Well-Being and Inequality Across the European Regions with Alternative Interactions Between the Well-Being Dimensions. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.C27EB759
  • Stress, health, and well-being : thriving in the 21st century, Harrington, R., 2013
  • The psychology of quality of life : hedonic well-being, life satisfaction, and eudaimonia, Sirgy, M. J., 2012
  • The well-being, peer cultures and rights of children, , 2011
  • Viswanath, K., Rimer, B. K., & Glanz, K. (2015). Health Behavior : Theory, Research, and Practice (Vol. Fifth edition). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1021677

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Jun, H.-J., Sacco, P., & Cunningham-Williams, R. M. (2021). Gambling in Emerging Adulthood: the Role of Adolescent Depressive Symptoms, Antisocial Behaviors, and Alcohol Use. International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction, 19(2), 494–507. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-019-00087-0
  • Kelly, L., & Daneshjoo, S. (2019). 263. Instagram & Body Positivity Among Female Adolescents & Young Adults. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2018.10.280

Authors

  • ERITSYAN KSENIYA YUREVNA
  • Ильина Мария Ивановна
  • TITKOVA VERA VIKTOROVNA