Sound mind, sound body, or vice versa? Mind-body beliefs shape health behaviors.

IF 3.8 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED

Applied psychology. Health and well-being Pub Date : 2024-11-04 DOI:10.1111/aphw.12617

Xyle Ku, Mina Jyung, Jennifer Hyunji Kim, Incheol Choi

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The present research examines whether and how lay intuitive theory regarding the interconnectedness of the mind and body, which we term mind-body correspondence (MBC), predicts engagement in health behaviors. Specifically, we hypothesised that MBC would strengthen mind influences the body (MIB) and body influences the mind (BIM) beliefs, which would in turn increase mental and physical health behaviors, respectively. We tested associations among MBC (independent variable), MIB and BIM beliefs (proposed mediators), and mental and physical health behaviors (dependent variables) using correlational designs in Studies 1a to 1c. Results revealed positive associations between MBC and (1) MIB and BIM and (2) mental and physical health behaviors, as well as between MIB and mental health behaviors and between BIM and physical health behaviors. We then tested the full model in Study 2 with an experimental manipulation of MBC and in Study 3 with a two-wave longitudinal design. Both studies revealed significant indirect effects of MBC on mental health behaviors via MIB and on physical health behaviors via BIM. Together, our findings suggest that one can encourage mental health behaviors by emphasizing the mind-to-body connection and physical health behaviors by highlighting the body-to-mind connection.

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健全的心灵，健全的身体，还是相反？身心信念塑造健康行为。

本研究探讨了关于身心相互关联的非专业直觉理论（我们称之为身心对应理论（MBC））是否以及如何预测参与健康行为。具体来说，我们假设心身对应理论会加强心灵影响身体（MIB）和身体影响心灵（BIM）的信念，进而分别增加心理和身体健康行为。我们在研究 1a 至 1c 中采用相关设计测试了 MBC（自变量）、MIB 和 BIM 信念（拟议的中介变量）以及心理和身体健康行为（因变量）之间的关联。结果显示，MBC 与（1）MIB 和 BIM 与（2）心理和身体健康行为之间，以及 MIB 与心理健康行为和 BIM 与身体健康行为之间均存在正相关。然后，我们在研究 2 中对 MBC 进行了实验操作，并在研究 3 中采用两波纵向设计对完整模型进行了测试。这两项研究都显示，MBC 通过 MIB 对心理健康行为产生了明显的间接影响，通过 BIM 对身体健康行为产生了明显的间接影响。总之，我们的研究结果表明，可以通过强调心与身的联系来鼓励心理健康行为，通过强调身与心的联系来鼓励身体健康行为。

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Applied psychology. Health and well-being PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED-

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12.10

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2.90%

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期刊介绍： Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the International Association of Applied Psychology. It was established in 2009 and covers applied psychology topics such as clinical psychology, counseling, cross-cultural psychology, and environmental psychology.