Child psychological well-being and adult health behavior and body mass index.
Conclusions: Early life lays the foundation for lifelong health. Childhood PWB may contribute to healthier behaviors and BMI in adulthood. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - January 2, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
How the integration of normal medical test results can be improved in patients with somatoform disorders—An experimental study.
Conclusions: By comparing patients with SFD to both a healthy and a clinical control group, the current study suggests that the difficulty in processing reassuring medical information is a specific psychopathological feature of SFD. Furthermore, our results suggest that the integration of medical reassurance can be improved by preventing patients from devaluing reassuring information through dismissive cognitive strategies. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - December 22, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Relating neighborhood deprivation to childhood obesity in the ABCD study: Evidence for theories of neuroinflammation and neuronal stress.
Conclusion: Greater area deprivation may indicate fewer access to resources that support healthy development, like nutritious food and nonstressful environments. Our findings provide evidence in support of the NI and NS theories of overeating, specifically, with greater ADI influencing health outcomes of obesity via brain structure alterations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - December 5, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Twin study of caffeine use, ADHD, and disrupted sleep in ABCD youth.
Conclusions: In a sample of preadolescent twin pairs from the ABCD Study, we did not observe evidence that caffeine use was quasi-causally associated with disrupted sleep at this early developmental stage. However, caffeine use and disrupted sleep emerged with shared etiologic influences. In sum, this study sets the stage for examining these dynamic patterns in future examinations of this critical and timely ABCD study sample, as genetic and environmental influences on behavior are known to change throughout development. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - November 28, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Expectations of respect and appreciation in daily life and associations with subclinical cardiovascular disease.
Conclusions: Midlife adults who anticipate greater respect and appreciation from others in everyday life evidence less preclinical vascular disease. Consistent with the literature showing that anticipation of social threats and unfair treatment may increase cardiovascular risk, expectations of being valued and treated with respect by others is associated with decreased risk. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - November 21, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Experimental tests of hypothetical lottery incentives on unvaccinated adults’ COVID-19 vaccination intentions.
Conclusions: Multiple lottery structures could be equally (un)motivating for unvaccinated adults. Structures that distribute incentives across more people or alternative public health strategies should be considered. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - November 21, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Culturally targeted message framing and colorectal cancer screening preferences among African Americans.
Conclusions: Findings demonstrate that message framing and culturally targeted messaging can impact CRC screening preferences. Altering preferences may carry implications for reducing CRC screening disparities among African Americans. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - November 21, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Handing off Health Psychology.
Health Psychology, Vol 41(12), Dec 2022, 893; doi:10.1037/hea0001249This editorial relates the change in editorial staff for the journal Health Psychology. Health Psychology is the official journal of the Society for Health Psychology (SfHP; Division 38 of the American Psychological Association). (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - November 17, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Parental knowledge/monitoring and adolescent substance use: A causal relationship?
Health Psychology, Vol 42(12), Dec 2023, 913-923; doi:10.1037/hea0001245Objective: Many studies have shown that parental knowledge/monitoring is correlated with adolescent substance use, but the association may be confounded by the many preexisting differences between families with low versus high monitoring. We attempted to produce more rigorous evidence for a causal relation using a longitudinal design that took advantage of within-family fluctuations in knowledge/monitoring during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: Youth (N = 8,780, age range = 10.5–15.6 years) at 21 sites across the United States completed up to seven su...
Source: Health Psychology - November 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Everyday discrimination, daily affect, and physical symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Conclusions: Everyday discrimination was related to lower daily positive affect and higher negative affect and physical symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study provides initial evidence that daily positive events partially offset the increased negative affect associated with same-day discrimination. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - October 17, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Psychological responses to U.S. statewide restrictions and COVID-19 exposures: A longitudinal study.
Health Psychology, Vol 41(11), Nov 2022, 817-825; doi:10.1037/hea0001233Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic has generated debate as to whether community-level behavioral restrictions are worth the emotional costs of such restrictions. Using a longitudinal design, we juxtaposed the relative impacts of state-level restrictions and case counts with person-level direct and media-based exposures on distress, loneliness, and traumatic stress symptoms (TSS) during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Method: From March 18, 2020 to April 18, 2020 and September 9, 2020 to October 16, 2020, a representative probability sample of...
Source: Health Psychology - October 17, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Everyday discrimination, daily affect, and physical symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Conclusions: Everyday discrimination was related to lower daily positive affect and higher negative affect and physical symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study provides initial evidence that daily positive events partially offset the increased negative affect associated with same-day discrimination. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Health Psychology)
Source: Health Psychology - October 17, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Psychological responses to U.S. statewide restrictions and COVID-19 exposures: A longitudinal study.
Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic has generated debate as to whether community-level behavioral restrictions are worth the emotional costs of such restrictions. Using a longitudinal design, we juxtaposed the relative impacts of state-level restrictions and case counts with person-level direct and media-based exposures on distress, loneliness, and traumatic stress symptoms (TSS) during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Method: From March 18, 2020 to April 18, 2020 and September 9, 2020 to October 16, 2020, a representative probability sample of U.S. adults (N = 5,594) completed surveys of their psychological respon...
Source: Health Psychology - October 17, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Current health care experiences, medical trust, and COVID-19 vaccination intention and uptake in Black and White Americans.
Health Psychology, Vol 42(8), Aug 2023, 541-550; doi:10.1037/hea0001240Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic spotlighted Black Americans’ inequitable health care experiences. Across two studies, we tested the associations between health care experiences, historical knowledge of medical mistreatment, medical trust, and COVID-19 vaccination intention and uptake in Black and White Americans. We hypothesized that Black Americans’ worse current health care experiences (rather than historical knowledge) and lower medical trust would be associated with lower COVID-19 vaccination intention (Study 1) and that feeling less cared for ...
Source: Health Psychology - October 13, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
