Health PsychologyPub Date : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2024-04-18DOI: 10.1037/hea0001393
Vicki S Helgeson, Fiona S Horner, Harry T Reis, Nynke M D Niezink, Ingrid Libman
{"title":"Peer interactions and health among youth with diabetes: An ecological momentary assessment.","authors":"Vicki S Helgeson, Fiona S Horner, Harry T Reis, Nynke M D Niezink, Ingrid Libman","doi":"10.1037/hea0001393","DOIUrl":"10.1037/hea0001393","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>We examined the links of supportive and conflictual peer interactions to mood and self-care via ecological momentary assessment.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Adolescents with Type 1 diabetes (<i>n</i> = 167, 49% female) recruited between 2018 and 2021 were prompted 8 times a day for 8 days to complete brief surveys that measured perceived social interactions, affect, and self-care.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Cross-sectional analyses revealed between- and within-person (WP) links of peer support to positive mood and conflict to negative mood. Between-person peer support was linked to healthy self-care, but WP support was not. Lagged analyses showed conflictual interactions were associated with self-care decline. There was some evidence that females did not benefit as much from support and were more bothered by conflict than others.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Results underscore differences in between- and WP links of social interactions to health. Individual differences in support were more influential than conflict, but conflictual interactions had more momentary effects than supportive interactions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":55066,"journal":{"name":"Health Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"684-693"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11368131/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140871334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health PsychologyPub Date : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2024-06-17DOI: 10.1037/hea0001349
Marissa A Kobayashi, Carmen R Isasi, Shakira F Suglia, Linda C Gallo, Angela P Gutierrez, Daniela Sotres-Alvarez, Maria M Llabre
{"title":"Adverse childhood experiences and adult disease: Examining mediating pathways in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos Sociocultural Ancillary Study.","authors":"Marissa A Kobayashi, Carmen R Isasi, Shakira F Suglia, Linda C Gallo, Angela P Gutierrez, Daniela Sotres-Alvarez, Maria M Llabre","doi":"10.1037/hea0001349","DOIUrl":"10.1037/hea0001349","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been linked to adulthood chronic diseases, but there is little research examining the mechanisms underlying this association. We tested pathways from ACEs to adult disease mediated via risk factors of depression, smoking, and body mass index.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Prospective data from adults 18 to 74 years old from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos and Sociocultural Ancillary Study were used. Retrospectively reported ACEs and hypothesized mediators were measured at Visit 1 (2008-2011). Outcomes of disease prevalence were assessed at Visit 2, approximately 6 years later. The analytic sample includes 5,230 Hispanic/Latino participants with ACE data. Statistical mediation was examined using structural equation modeling on cardiometabolic and pulmonary disease prevalence and reported probit regression coefficients with 95% confidence intervals (CIs).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We found a significant association between ACEs and the prevalence of asthma/chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (standardized β = .07, 95% CI [0.02, 0.12]). In the mediational model, the direct association was nonsignificant (β = .02, 95% CI [-0.04, 0.07]) but was mediated by depressive symptoms (β = .03, 95% CI [0.02, 0.04]). There were no associations between ACEs and the prevalence of diabetes and self-reported coronary heart disease or cerebrovascular disease. However, a small indirect effect was identified via depressive symptoms and coronary heart disease (β = .02, 95% CI [0.01, 0.03]).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In this diverse Hispanic/Latino sample, depressive symptoms were found to be a pathway linking ACEs to self-reported cardiopulmonary diseases, although the effects were of small magnitude. Future work should replicate pathways, confirm the magnitude of effects, and examine cultural moderators that may dampen expected associations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":55066,"journal":{"name":"Health Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"627-638"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141332465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health PsychologyPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-04-18DOI: 10.1037/hea0001376
Tanner R Newbold, Elif Gizem Demirag Burak, Glenn Leshner, Shane Connelly, Norman Wong, Sun Kyong Lee, Seulki Rachel Jang
{"title":"COVID-19 vaccine messaging for young adults: Examining framing, other-referencing, and health beliefs.","authors":"Tanner R Newbold, Elif Gizem Demirag Burak, Glenn Leshner, Shane Connelly, Norman Wong, Sun Kyong Lee, Seulki Rachel Jang","doi":"10.1037/hea0001376","DOIUrl":"10.1037/hea0001376","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study investigates the interaction between message framing and point-of-reference (self vs. others) for vaccine benefits on young adults' COVID-19 vaccine confidence and intentions. It also examines how COVID-19-related health beliefs-such as perceived severity of COVID-19 and perceived benefits of obtaining the vaccine to protect others-mediate these interactions.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>In a 2 (framing: gain vs. loss) × 3 (reference point: self, others, university community) between-subjects experiment (Fall 2021), 202 participants ages 18-23 were shown animated messages with embedded manipulations to convey vaccine information. Moderated mediation models tested the conditional indirect effects of framing on vaccine confidence and intentions.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Reference point significantly moderated the effect of framing on the perceived severity of COVID-19. More specifically, and somewhat contrary to previous literature, perceived severity was highest when messages emphasized gains for others. In turn, perceived severity correlated positively with vaccine confidence and intentions, resulting in a significant conditional indirect effect. Despite its positive relationship with COVID-19 vaccine confidence and intentions, perceived benefit to others was not a significant mediator.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study provides evidence for the role of reference point in moderating the effect of gain-loss message framing on COVID-19 vaccine attitudes and intentions. However, the findings differ from past research, suggesting other-gain messages may be an optimal strategy for promoting these vaccine outcomes for young adults. Overall, findings have implications for developing tailored messaging strategies that account for the nature of targeted populations and the evolving perceptions of the disease and its associated messaging campaigns. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":55066,"journal":{"name":"Health Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"615-625"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140860337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health PsychologyPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-04-22DOI: 10.1037/hea0001345
Gabriella Bentley, Osnat Zamir, Ilan Roziner, Rawan Dahabre, Shlomit Perry, Evangelos C Karademas, Paula Poikonen-Saksela, Ketti Mazzocco, Albino J Oliveira-Maia, Ruth Pat-Horenczyk
{"title":"Fear of cancer recurrence in breast cancer: A moderated serial mediation analysis of a prospective international study.","authors":"Gabriella Bentley, Osnat Zamir, Ilan Roziner, Rawan Dahabre, Shlomit Perry, Evangelos C Karademas, Paula Poikonen-Saksela, Ketti Mazzocco, Albino J Oliveira-Maia, Ruth Pat-Horenczyk","doi":"10.1037/hea0001345","DOIUrl":"10.1037/hea0001345","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Women dealing with breast cancer (BC) face many challenges, one of which is the fear of cancer recurrence (FCR). This study examined whether disease severity predicts FCR 6 months after cancer diagnosis through psychological distress and whether cognitive-emotion regulation moderates this effect.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The study sample included 656 women from Italy (27.5%), Finland (31.9%), Israel (19.8%), and Portugal (20.8%) diagnosed with Stages I-III of BC. Participants' age ranged between 40 and 70 years (<i>M</i> = 54.92, <i>SD</i> = 8.22). Participants were tracked following BC diagnosis and at 3 and 6 months follow-up. Participants filled out self-report questionnaires, including the FCR inventory-short form, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, and the cognitive-emotion regulation questionnaire along with medical-social-demographic data.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Greater disease severity at baseline indicated by higher cancer stage predicted greater psychological distress, which in turn predicted greater psychological distress at 3 months. The latter predicted greater FCR at 6 months. This serial mediation model was moderated by negative cognitive-emotion regulation. The mediating effect of disease severity on FCR through psychological distress was significant only in women with mean or higher levels of negative cognitive-emotion regulation.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study suggests that facilitating psychological well-being and effective cognitive-emotion regulation in the early stages after a cancer diagnosis may protect women from FCR. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":55066,"journal":{"name":"Health Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"603-614"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140869270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health PsychologyPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-04-22DOI: 10.1037/hea0001382
Brianna N Natale, Rachel E Koffer, Samantha E Fairlie, Kristina D Dickman, Catherine P Walsh, Anna L Marsland, Thomas W Kamarck
{"title":"Sex-specific associations between childhood trauma and adult systemic inflammation in daily life.","authors":"Brianna N Natale, Rachel E Koffer, Samantha E Fairlie, Kristina D Dickman, Catherine P Walsh, Anna L Marsland, Thomas W Kamarck","doi":"10.1037/hea0001382","DOIUrl":"10.1037/hea0001382","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Childhood trauma may contribute to lifelong health through chronic systemic inflammation. However, associations between childhood trauma and inflammation are mixed, indicating that distinct types of childhood trauma may relate to inflammation differently. Moreover, most studies use a single assessment of inflammatory markers that may not reliably estimate stable interindividual differences. The current study is the first to examine relationships between childhood trauma and an ecologically valid measure of inflammation derived from repeated assessments of interleukin (IL)-6 in daily life. We also examine the possibility that glucocorticoid sensitivity and patterns of daily cortisol may contribute to observed associations. Finally, we explore whether biological sex moderates relationships between childhood trauma and IL-6.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Participants were 283 healthy adults aged 40-64 (57% female, 23% Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) who completed the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire and self-collected dried blood spots at home on 4 days to measure IL-6. Measures of salivary cortisol and blood-based glucocorticoid sensitivity were also assessed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Childhood trauma was not associated with IL-6 in the sample as a whole. However, exploratory analyses showed that childhood trauma related to IL-6 differently for males and females, such that total trauma and emotional neglect predicted higher IL-6 for males but not females. Results persisted after adjustment for covariates. There was no evidence for indirect effects via cortisol or glucocorticoid sensitivity.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Childhood trauma and, specifically, emotional neglect were associated with IL-6 in daily life among middle-aged males. Additional research is needed to elucidate biological and behavioral pathways underlying these associations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":55066,"journal":{"name":"Health Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"579-590"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140874278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health PsychologyPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-04-11DOI: 10.1037/hea0001372
Joseph A Belloir, Ipek Ensari, Kasey Jackman, Ari Shechter, Anisha Bhargava, Walter O Bockting, Billy A Caceres
{"title":"Day-to-day associations of intersectional minority stressors with sleep health in sexual and gender minority people of color.","authors":"Joseph A Belloir, Ipek Ensari, Kasey Jackman, Ari Shechter, Anisha Bhargava, Walter O Bockting, Billy A Caceres","doi":"10.1037/hea0001372","DOIUrl":"10.1037/hea0001372","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To determine the day-to-day associations between minority stressors (i.e., anticipated and experienced discrimination) and sleep health outcomes (i.e., total sleep time (TST), sleep disturbances, and sleep-related impairment) among sexual and gender minority (SGM) people of color.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>An online sample of SGM people of color living in the United States participated in a 30-day daily diary study. Daily anticipated and experienced discrimination as well as subjective sleep outcomes were assessed via electronic diaries using validated measures. Wrist-worn actigraphy was used to objectively assess TST. Multilevel linear models (MLMs) were used to estimate the independent associations of daily intersectional minority stressors with subsequent sleep outcomes, adjusted for demographic factors and lifetime discrimination.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The sample included 43 SGM people of color with a mean age of 27.0 years (± 7.7) of which 84% were Latinx, 47% were multiracial, and 37% were bisexual. Results of MLMs indicated that greater report of daily experienced discrimination was positively associated with same-night sleep disturbances, <i>B</i> (<i>SE</i>) = 0.45 (0.10), <i>p</i> < .001. Daily anticipated discrimination was positively associated with sleep-related impairment on the following day, <i>B</i> (<i>SE</i>) = 0.77 (0.17), <i>p</i> < .001. However, daily anticipated and experienced discrimination were not associated with same-night TST.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Findings highlight the importance of considering the differential effects of daily intersectional minority stressors on the sleep health of SGM people of color. Further research is needed to identify factors driving the link between daily minority stressors and sleep outcomes to inform sleep health interventions tailored to this population. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":55066,"journal":{"name":"Health Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"591-602"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11549904/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140873581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health PsychologyPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-05-30DOI: 10.1037/hea0001384
Maria M Llabre, Zachary T Goodman
{"title":"An analytical framework for the embodiment of structural inequities.","authors":"Maria M Llabre, Zachary T Goodman","doi":"10.1037/hea0001384","DOIUrl":"10.1037/hea0001384","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The goal of this article is to describe a conceptual multilevel model that provides evidence of embodiment of a societal stressor on the health of the individuals and illustrate with simulated data how omitting components in the analysis model fails to properly capture how context influences health.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We describe a two-level model with variables at each level: stress at the group level and appraisal at the individual level. These factors are assumed to influence the blood pressure of individuals. Importantly, the person-level predictor is responsible for bringing the group-level predictor to the individual level by a cross-level interaction between stress and appraisal and/or a mediated effect of stress. When combined, the model components may be partitioned into a pure direct effect, a pure indirect effect, pure interaction effect, and an interaction-in-mediation effect. Data were generated in accordance with the model with each component accounting for some proportion of variance in blood pressure.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>To the extent these components operate in the process of embodiment, a proposition we argue is reasonable, failure to specify the analytic model with all components leads to failure to characterize embodiment and misattribution of the effect and mechanism.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>To fully quantify embodiment of a societal stressor on a health outcome, studies should use multilevel designs and estimate cross-level interactions and mediated effects. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":55066,"journal":{"name":"Health Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"551-560"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141181632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health PsychologyPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-04-11DOI: 10.1037/hea0001375
Chenyi Zuo, Yi Ren, Hua Ming, Kehan Mei, Silin Huang
{"title":"The double-edged effect of social mobility belief on socioeconomically disadvantaged adolescents' health: The mediating role of intentional self-regulation.","authors":"Chenyi Zuo, Yi Ren, Hua Ming, Kehan Mei, Silin Huang","doi":"10.1037/hea0001375","DOIUrl":"10.1037/hea0001375","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This study aimed to examine the double-edged effect of social mobility belief on socioeconomically disadvantaged adolescents' mental and physical health and further explore whether intentional self-regulation is the common psychological mechanism of social mobility belief affecting physical and mental health.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>A total of 469 adolescents (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 13.96 years, 49.3% boys) from two rural public schools in China were included in this study. Adolescents completed questionnaires measuring social mobility belief and mental health (life satisfaction, self-esteem, and depression). Physical health (allostatic load) was reflected by six indicators (resting diastolic and systolic blood pressure, body mass index, epinephrine, norepinephrine, and cortisol).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Social mobility belief was positively correlated with adolescents' life satisfaction and self-esteem but negatively correlated with depression. Intentional self-regulation mediated the relationships between social mobility belief and mental health. In addition, the results showed that intentional self-regulation mediated the relationship between social mobility belief and adolescents' physical health.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Social mobility belief may be a \"skin-deep\" resilience resource positively related to mental health but negatively correlated with physical health through intentional self-regulation among socioeconomically disadvantaged adolescents. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":55066,"journal":{"name":"Health Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"570-578"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140860618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health PsychologyPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-02-29DOI: 10.1037/hea0001360
Todd McElroy, David L Dickinson, Stephen Vale
{"title":"The impact of restricting sleep duration on physical activity: Secondary analysis of a randomized crossover study.","authors":"Todd McElroy, David L Dickinson, Stephen Vale","doi":"10.1037/hea0001360","DOIUrl":"10.1037/hea0001360","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>This study investigated the causal impact of sleep durations on participants' physical activity (PA) in real-world conditions.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We performed a secondary analysis of PA data from 146 young adults using a randomized crossover design: both restricted (5-6 hr/night) and well-rested (8-9 hr/night) sleep weeks were assessed, with a washout week in between. Sleep and activity were tracked via research-grade actigraphy. Data analysis of PA involved repeated-measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) and regression techniques.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Analysis plans and hypothesis were preregistered before data analysis. The exogenously assigned sleep restriction (SR) treatment reduced nightly sleep an average of 92.65 min (± 40.44 min) compared to one's well-rested sleep treatment. The impact of SR on PA was substantial, leading to a 7% reduction in average hourly PA: 18,081.2 (well-rested) versus 16,818.2 (restricted sleep). Significant findings were revealed in daily, <i>F</i>(1, 6) = 84.37, <i>p</i> < .001, η<i><sub>p</sub></i>² = 0.934, and hourly comparisons, <i>F</i>(1, 166) = 30.47, <i>p</i> < .001, η<i><sub>p</sub></i>² = 0.155. Further, sensitivity analysis using a variety of regression specifications also found that exogenously assigned SR decreased average wake-hour activity counts by approximately 4.4%-4.7% (<i>p</i> < .01 in all cases) when controlling for other factors. Exploratory analysis showed the PA effects of SR manifested via reductions in PA intensity with concurrent increases in the proportion of time considered as sedentary.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>SR significantly lowered PA by around 7%, characterized by reduced intensity and elevated sedentary behavior in a naturalistic setting. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":55066,"journal":{"name":"Health Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"561-569"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139998249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health PsychologyPub Date : 2024-07-01Epub Date: 2024-04-11DOI: 10.1037/hea0001377
Dakota D Witzel, Karina Van Bogart, Erin E Harrington, Shelbie G Turner, David M Almeida
{"title":"Loneliness dynamics and physical health symptomology among midlife adults in daily life.","authors":"Dakota D Witzel, Karina Van Bogart, Erin E Harrington, Shelbie G Turner, David M Almeida","doi":"10.1037/hea0001377","DOIUrl":"10.1037/hea0001377","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The current study examined how average daily loneliness (between-persons [BPs]), intraindividual variability in loneliness across days (within-persons [WPs]), and loneliness stability informed physical health symptomatology.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We utilized daily diary data from a national sample of 1,538 middle-aged adults (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 51.02; 57.61% women) who completed eight end-of-day telephone interviews about daily experiences, including loneliness and physical health symptoms (e.g., headaches, nausea). Via multilevel modeling, we examined average daily loneliness (BPs), intraindividual variability in loneliness (WPs), stability in loneliness (individual mean-squared successive difference) in association with the number and average severity of daily physical health symptoms.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>When participants were less lonely on average, and on days when loneliness was lower than a person's average, they had fewer and less severe physical health symptoms. Additionally, participants who were more stable in loneliness across 8 days had less severe physical health symptoms. Further, there was a stronger association between instability in loneliness and more physical health symptoms for people who were lonelier on average. Finally, the increase in physical health symptom severity associated with WP loneliness was strongest for participants with low variability in loneliness.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Loneliness is associated with physical health symptoms on a day-to-day basis, especially for people who are highly variable in loneliness. Considerations of multiple sources of variation in daily loneliness may be necessary to adequately address loneliness and promote health. Public health interventions addressing loneliness may be most effective if they support social connectedness in people's everyday lives in ways that promote stable, low levels of loneliness. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":55066,"journal":{"name":"Health Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"528-538"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11343044/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140869581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}