Health-related social control in overweight romantic couples: daily associations with physical activity and affect for targets and agents.

IF 3.6 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Pascal Küng, Corina Berli, Patrick S Höhener, Robert Tobias, Urte Scholz
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Background: Physical activity is essential for health and wellbeing. However, many individuals fail to reach the recommended levels and obesity rates are increasing. Health-related social control refers to strategies employed by 1 person (agent) to influence another person's (target) health behavior. These strategies can be classified into persuasion (eg, encouraging or motivating) or pressure (eg, nagging or coercing). However, much of the existing research is cross-sectional and mostly focuses on the experiences of the targets.

Purpose: This study investigates how persuasion and pressure within overweight romantic couples relate to outcomes in both agents and targets. Specifically, it examines same-day associations with positive and negative affect, as well as physical activity.

Methods: This study is a secondary analysis of the 14-day follow-up period from a randomized controlled trial. Accelerometers and daily diaries tracked 99 overweight romantic couples. For each outcome and each partner, separate multilevel models were fitted.

Results: Daily persuasion used by agents was associated with increased physical activity in targets and a more favorable affect in agents. Daily pressure was not associated with the physical activity of either partner but was linked to a more unfavorable affect in the agent. Both persuasion and pressure were unrelated to the targets' affect.

Conclusions: Health-related social control in romantic relationships relates to same-day outcomes of both agents and targets. Our findings suggest that health behavior change interventions and weight loss programs could benefit from encouraging persuasion and limiting pressure.

超重情侣的健康相关社会控制:与身体活动的日常联系以及对目标和代理的影响。
背景:体育活动对健康和幸福至关重要。然而,许多人没有达到建议的水平,肥胖率正在上升。健康相关社会控制是指一个人(代理人)为影响另一个人(目标)的健康行为而采取的策略。这些策略可以分为说服(例如,鼓励或激励)或压力(例如,唠叨或胁迫)。然而,许多现有的研究是横断面的,主要集中在目标的经验。目的:本研究探讨了超重情侣之间的说服和压力对中介和目标结果的影响。具体来说,它检查了当天与积极和消极情绪以及身体活动的联系。方法:本研究是对一项随机对照试验的14天随访期的二次分析。加速度计和日常日记追踪了99对超重的浪漫情侣。对于每个结果和每个合作伙伴,分别拟合了多水平模型。结果:代理人使用的日常说服与目标的身体活动增加和代理人的更有利影响有关。每日压力与任何一方的身体活动无关,但与代理人的更不利影响有关。说服和压力都与被试者的情感无关。结论:恋爱关系中与健康相关的社会控制与主体和目标的当日结果有关。我们的研究结果表明,健康行为改变干预和减肥计划可以从鼓励说服和限制压力中受益。
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Annals of Behavioral Medicine
Annals of Behavioral Medicine PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
CiteScore
7.00
自引率
5.30%
发文量
65
期刊介绍: Annals of Behavioral Medicine aims to foster the exchange of knowledge derived from the disciplines involved in the field of behavioral medicine, and the integration of biological, psychosocial, and behavioral factors and principles as they relate to such areas as health promotion, disease prevention, risk factor modification, disease progression, adjustment and adaptation to physical disorders, and rehabilitation. To achieve these goals, much of the journal is devoted to the publication of original empirical articles including reports of randomized controlled trials, observational studies, or other basic and clinical investigations. Integrative reviews of the evidence for the application of behavioral interventions in health care will also be provided. .
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