Health promotion: past paper questions
Real questions on health promotion
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- 9990/31 · May/June 2026 · Q11a[4]
Suggest how Rabia can improve the health and safety of her workers, using your knowledge of a study that investigates health promotion in worksites.
See it on the paper → - 9990/31 · May/June 2026 · Q11b[2]
Explain one practical problem that Rabia could have when implementing your suggestion from 11(a).
See it on the paper → - 9990/31 · May/June 2026 · Q12a[6]
Describe the following: • • a study about improving adherence to medical advice in children contracts and prompts as individual behavioural techniques to improve adherence to medical advice.
See it on the paper → - 9990/31 · May/June 2026 · Q12b[10]
Evaluate the following, including a discussion about reliability: • • a study about improving adherence to medical advice in children contracts and prompts as individual behavioural techniques to improve adherence to medical advice. Evaluation in your answer can include strengths, weaknesses and a discussion of issues...
See it on the paper → - 9990/32 · February/March 2026 · Q12a[6]
Describe the study by Shoshani and Steinmetz (2014) about using positive psychology in schools to improve mental health.
See it on the paper → - 9990/32 · February/March 2026 · Q12b[10]
Evaluate the study by Shoshani and Steinmetz (2014), including a discussion about questionnaires. Evaluation in your answer can include strengths, weaknesses and a discussion of issues and debates. Section D: Organisational Psychology Answer all questions.
See it on the paper → - 9990/33 · October/November 2025 · Q9[4]
A university student, Chloe, thinks that she has less chance of becoming ill than other students. She also thinks that she has more chance of living longer than other students. This suggests unrealistic optimism in Chloe’s health beliefs. Suggest two reasons why Chloe may have unrealistic optimism in her health beliefs...
See it on the paper → - 9990/33 · October/November 2025 · Q10b[2]
Explain why one strategy for improving health has a situational explanation.
See it on the paper → - 9990/42 · October/November 2025 · Q11a[10]
Plan a study using an interview to investigate unrealistic optimism in adults about health beliefs. Your plan must include details about: • question format • interview format.
See it on the paper → - 9990/42 · October/November 2025 · Q11b(i)[4]
Describe this psychological knowledge.
See it on the paper → - 9990/42 · October/November 2025 · Q11b(ii)[4]
Explain how you used two features of this psychological knowledge to plan your study.
See it on the paper → - 9990/42 · October/November 2025 · Q11c(i)[2]
Explain one reason for your choice of question format.
See it on the paper → - 9990/42 · October/November 2025 · Q11c(ii)[2]
Explain one weakness of your choice of question format.
See it on the paper → - 9990/42 · October/November 2024 · Q5b[2]
Suggest one health promotion strategy that could be used to promote mental health in schools, other than the strategy referred to in this study.
See it on the paper → - 9990/42 · October/November 2024 · Q11b(i)[4]
Describe this psychological knowledge.
See it on the paper → - 9990/32 · May/June 2024 · Q10a[2]
Outline what is meant by ‘application to everyday life’, including a measure of non-adherence as an example.
See it on the paper → - 9990/33 · May/June 2024 · Q11a[4]
Outline two alternative treatments that Becky could use to manage her pain.
See it on the paper → - 9990/33 · May/June 2024 · Q11b[2]
For one of the treatments outlined in part (a): Explain one weakness of this way for Becky to manage her pain.
See it on the paper → - 9990/33 · May/June 2024 · Q12a[6]
Describe what psychologists have discovered about: • unrealistic optimism, and • positive psychology.
See it on the paper → - 9990/33 · May/June 2024 · Q12b[10]
Evaluate what psychologists have discovered about: • unrealistic optimism, and • positive psychology, including a discussion about the idiographic versus nomothetic approach. Evaluation in your answer can include strengths, weaknesses and a discussion of issues and debates. Section D: Organisational Psychology Answer a...
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What examiners said
Comprehensive responses • Showed a good understanding of the study and outlined details of the sample, measured used, procedure, and results. Limited responses • Fewer correct details given of the study often without any measures used or procedural details not given.
— Examiner report, February/March 2026, 9990/32 Q12(a) (Cambridge)
Comprehensive responses • The named issue was questionnaires and those who knew the study well and how the various aspect of mental health was assessed, were able to provide some good analysis with use of context from the study. This was usually done by discussing strengths and weaknesses of one or more of the questionnaires used. • Other common issues in more comprehensive responses were experime...
— Examiner report, February/March 2026, 9990/32 Q12(b) (Cambridge)
The responses to this question covered the full range of the mark scheme. Stronger responses gave clear and often detailed descriptions of strategies for promoting health. The study on fear arousal by Janis and Feshbach was often described in depth with details of the sample, procedure and a result. Weaker responses gave fewer details or incorrectly stated that the strong fear condition saw the hi...
— Examiner report, October/November 2023, 9990/31 Q6(a) (Cambridge)
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