Vargas, Emily A Mahalingam, Ramaswami
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Journal of health psychology
Throughout life, social messages about women's bodies put them at greater risk of specific psychological health conditions than men; yet little is known about what psychological factors can help promote mental health in older women. In this study, we examine how perceptions of control relate to perceptions of psychological health, in addition to ph...
Dimitrov, Annika Veer, Ilya M Kleeblatt, Julia Seyfarth, Florian Roenneberg, Till Ising, Marcus Uhr, Manfred Keck, Martin E Kramer, Achim Berger, Maximilian
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Journal of health psychology
Past studies examining the effect of chronotype and social jetlag on psychological well-being have been inconsistent so far. Here, we recruited participants from the general population and enquired about their natural sleeping behavior, sleep quality, depressive symptoms, and perceived stress. Partial correlations were computed between sleep variab...
Renn, Brenna N Obetz, Vanessa Feliciano, Leilani
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Journal of health psychology
Depression is frequently comorbid with diabetes; however, less is known about this comorbidity in socially disadvantaged populations. This cross-sectional study examined depressive symptomatology among 424 patients with prediabetes or type 2 diabetes mellitus at a federally qualified health center. Prevalence of clinically significant depressive sy...
Lillie, Sarah E Fu, Steven S Fabbrini, Angela E Rice, Kathryn L Clothier, Barbara A Doro, Elizabeth Melzer, Anne C Partin, Melissa R
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Journal of health psychology
The need for cognitive closure describes the extent to which a person, faced with a decision, prefers any answer in lieu of continued uncertainty. This construct may be relevant in lung cancer screening, which can both reduce and increase uncertainty. We examined whether individual differences in need for cognitive closure are associated with Veter...
Gonsalves, Christine A McGannon, Kerry R Schinke, Robert J
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Journal of health psychology
The aim of this study was to explore the meanings of women's cardiovascular disease constructed within the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation Facebook page. Posts from Heart and Stroke Foundation and public user comments surrounding the launch of the Heart and Stroke Foundation re-branding were of interest. Ethnographic content analysis was emplo...
Webber, Chelsea J O'Hea, Erin C Abar, Beau Bock, Beth Boudreaux, Edwin D
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Journal of health psychology
This 28-day pilot study assessed the feasibility of cell phone ecological momentary assessment in 40 smokers who received emergency department evaluations for acute coronary syndrome. Ecological momentary assessments used familiar touch tone response technology during a cell phone call to capture ratings of illness perceptions, emotion, behavioral ...
Cruz-Sáez, Soledad Pascual, Aitziber Wlodarczyk, Anna Echeburúa, Enrique
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Journal of health psychology
This study aimed to determine whether self-esteem and negative affect sequentially mediate the relationship between body dissatisfaction and disordered eating. A total of 806 adolescents (61.8% females) completed the Drive for Thinness, Bulimia, and Body Dissatisfaction subscales of the Eating Disorder Inventory-2, the Anxiety and Depression subsca...
Padamsee, Tasleem J Muraveva, Anna Yee, Lisa D Wills, Celia E Paskett, Electra D
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Journal of health psychology
Prior research demonstrates that family history influences breast cancer prevention decisions among healthy women at elevated risk of the disease. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 50 African American and White women, this study reveals an important psychological mechanism of this relationship: exposure to cancer among loved ones. Four distinct c...
McIntosh, Roger C Ironson, Gail Krause, Neal
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Journal of health psychology
The total and indirect effect of hostility on systolic and diastolic blood pressure was compared as a function of religious and spirituality identity in a nationally representative sample of 2971 adults aged 46.44 years. Structural equation modeling uncovered an indirect path from hostility to diastolic blood pressure via unhealthy behaviors and ho...
Ge, Ting
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Journal of health psychology
This study aimed to examine the relationship between socioeconomic status and children's psychological well-being and to investigate the mediating effect of family social capital. A sample of 19,487 school-aged children was collected from 2013-2014 China Education Panel Survey. Structural equation modeling was applied to test the hypothesized model...
