Behavioral intentions are one of the strongest predictors of health behavior. The current research explored the factors predicting action in those with already strong intentions (i.e., those with the most extreme intention scores).

To examine the rates as well as the interdependence of depressive symptoms and sleep problems in patients with cancer and their intimate partner family caregivers.

Caregivers' ambivalent feelings toward the care recipient have been found to be associated with depression and anxiety. There is no research linking caregivers' ambivalent feelings and cardiovascular risk. This study was aimed to analyze longitudinally the effect of ambivalence on caregivers' cardiovascular risk, defined by circulating levels of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, interleukin-6 (IL-6), and D-dimer.

When people receive information about the benefits and harms of mammography screening, they do not always accept it at face value and instead express skepticism. The purpose of this research was to identify the psychological drivers of this skepticism. Two theory-driven hypotheses were considered: One hypothesis proposes that skeptical reactions reflect a psychological defense against information that is emotionally aversive. Another proposes that skeptical reactions reflect a normative probabilistic inference that information that conflicts with prior beliefs is unlikely to be true. This work also identified the potential consequences of skepticism for people's screening preferences.

Does loneliness predict premature death? Much prior research suggests so, but this evidence draws primarily on populations from individualistic societies, such as North America and Western Europe. Here, we aimed to extend this evidence by testing a hypothesis that loneliness would predict greater mortality risk in collectivistic societies, where social interdependence is normatively sanctioned.

We tested whether an intervention's dosage influences health behavior change. Intervention dosage was indexed by the duration of the intervention, the number of sessions, and total contact time in treatment arms of trials to promote physical activity.

This study aimed to examine asthma disparities at the intersection of four sociodemographic characteristics, inhaled substance use, and bias-based bullying as metrics of stigma. We hypothesized that high prevalence groups for asthma would be those with marginalized social positions and those reporting bullying experiences, independent of inhaled substance use.

Patients' perceptions about their illness have the power to influence health outcomes. However, existing illness belief measures can be burdensome. Using word clouds to illustrate patients' experiences is potentially a novel solution, but research is lacking in this area. This study aimed to explore whether word clouds illustrate patients' perceptions about their illness and to determine commonalities and differences in experiences of rheumatic diseases.

Obesity is one of the most prominent health issues in modern society. Although previous research has identified chronic psychological stress as a risk factor for obesity, much of this research only examined how an individual's own stress affects their adiposity. The current study utilized an actor-partner interdependence model to examine the unique associations of youths' and parents' chronic stress with both their own and each other's adiposity.

Previous cross-sectional studies have shown that more (vs. less) sexually active individuals tend to be mentally and physically healthier, but little is known about the proximal mechanisms underlying such associations.

This study was designed to investigate the effects of individual, dyadic, and collaborative planning on moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA; primary outcome) and energy-dense food intake (secondary outcome) in dyads of parents and their 9-15-year-old children. Individual planning reflects an "I-for-me" planning of one person's behavior. Collaborative ("we-for-us") planning refers to joint planning of both dyad members' behavior, whereas dyadic ("we-for-me") planning involves joint planning of only the target person's behavior.

This study examined the interactive relations of experienced interpersonal discrimination, sex, and religious affiliation with pulse wave velocity (PWV), a noninvasive measure of arterial stiffness and indicator of subclinical cardiovascular disease (CVD) prognostic for clinical CVD.

Stress processes have long been of interest to researchers. A growing body of research explores the bidirectional relations between stressors, psychological and physical states. However, research on stress processes and their individual differences from a dynamic systems perspective is still lacking. This study examined dynamic feedback loops between stressors, psychological distress, and physical symptoms simultaneously using ecological momentary assessment.

High rates of undiagnosed Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) necessitate additional efforts to increase risk awareness, particularly among marginalized and immigrant populations. We examined the association of acculturation with the likelihood of accurate perception of T2DM risk in a large nationally representative sample of adults at risk for T2DM.

Despite the proven benefits of vaccination, people differ in their willingness to get vaccinated. These differences are the result of multiple factors, including social, cultural, and psychological variables. This meta-analysis estimated the effects of people's Big Five personality traits on their vaccination attitudes, intentions, and behaviors and examined the role of theoretically and empirically derived moderator variables.

Advanced nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is associated with the highest burden of mental and physical symptoms. Across illnesses, patients' subjective illness beliefs (i.e., illness perceptions [IPs]) correlate with psychological and physical health status. Despite this, IPs in NSCLC patients are understudied. To address this gap, previous research identified three profiles characterizing IPs of newly diagnosed NSCLC patients: "coping" (those more positive perceptions of NSCLC); "coping but concerned" (similar positive perceptions but high concern); and "struggling" (uniformly negative perceptions; Valentine et al., 2022). This extension seeks to determine if IPs are predictive. Would patients' psychological and physical health trajectories differ by IP profile?

Poor sleep quality affects Black women in the United States. Black young adult women experience stress from gendered racial microaggressions (i.e., subtle unfair treatment from being a Black woman). Studies of exposure to this stressor have focused on in-person contexts (i.e., offline). Yet Black young adults are nearly constantly online. The current study examines the associations between online and offline gendered racial microaggressions and sleep quality.

Caregivers' self-efficacy for managing their child's asthma appears to influence their success with managing their child's disease. We examined how caregiver self-efficacy operates in the context of multilevel social-environmental support factors to shape asthma outcomes.

This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to combine the physiological, psychological, and spiritual health effects of spiritual and religious interventions on cardiovascular disease patients.

This cross-sectional study described the home tobacco environment and its association with quitting behaviors among Black/African American women caregivers who smoke cigarettes and live in rural, low-resourced areas.

Psychological distress in cancer survivors may be partially attributable to fear of cancer recurrence (FCR). Simonelli et al. (2017) proposed a conceptual model of FCR, which suggests that cancer cues (e.g., physical symptoms) may prompt maladaptive emotional processing leading to heightened FCR, and thus increased psychological distress. This prospective study tested this model by examining the cascading pathways by which physical symptom burden, emotion dysregulation, and FCR were associated with posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and anxiety among recently diagnosed cancer survivors.

This study examined the association between perceived stress and perceived tangible social support on parental feeding practices in a sample of Mexican American parents of young children. Tangible social support was examined as a potential moderator of perceived stress on parental feeding. Results by parent gender were also examined.

Cancer poses significant challenges for patients and caregiving partners. Avoidant communication has been linked to poorer psychosocial adjustment to cancer. Two conceptual models have been proposed to account for this linkage: the social-cognitive processing and relationship intimacy models.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, individuals in some countries had the option to choose from different vaccines, some of which were perceived as less favorable than others. Research on the decoy effect suggests that the preference for an option (target) increases when an inferior option (decoy) is added to the choice set. However, it is unknown whether the decoy effect occurs in vaccination decision making.

Eating in response to stress can become habitual and have long-term consequences for weight gain, but little research has explored what may help break stress-eating cycles. We examined daily social resources as potential protective factors against daily stress eating and eventual weight gain.

To explore the 2-year physical activity trajectory of Chinese college students and further examine the longitudinal relationship between physical activity trajectory and depressive symptoms. Furthermore, our study aimed to clarify the potential role of clock genes deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) methylation in the association between physical activity and depressive symptoms.

Few studies have investigated disordered eating and unhealthy weight control behaviors and cardiovascular health (CVH) outside of adolescence and early adulthood. We examined the cross-sectional and prospective associations of these behaviors and CVH in middle adulthood.

Cancer- and cancer treatment-related cognitive impairment (CRCI) is reported by many women with breast cancer (BC). Distress tolerance (DT) refers to both the perceived capacity and behavioral act of withstanding uncomfortable/aversive/negative emotional and/or physical experiences. Poor DT has been associated with worse cognitive performance, including executive dysfunction. Importantly, DT can be improved through psychological interventions. However, DT research in cancer has been limited. This study aimed to examine the relationship between DT and CRCI in women with BC.

Differences in automatic cognitive processes exist among individuals with overweight and obesity, thus there is a need to expand our conceptualization of overweight and obesity to emphasize the predictive utility of these automatic processes, rather than focusing solely on behavioral outputs. Implicit association tests (IATs) may afford a noninvasive method of examining automatic preferences that might contribute to overweight and obesity; namely, preferences for unhealthy foods and sedentary behavior versus healthy foods and physical activity. The purpose of the current study was to examine whether implicit attitudes toward foods and physical activity differed based on body mass index (BMI) status. The relationships between implicit attitudes and key psychosocial factors and health behaviors were also examined.

In France, uptake of the recommended human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination remains low. The vaccine cannot be administered without parental consent, but studies have shown that adolescents can make informed decisions about their health. We aimed at understanding the weight of adolescents' vaccination intention in parents' vaccination decision, using data from parent-adolescent dyads collected at baseline of a randomized trial of vaccine promotion interventions.