Future perspective and healthy lifestyle choices in adulthood.

Correlates among healthy lifestyle cognitive beliefs, healthy lifestyle choices, social support, and healthy behaviors in adolescents: implications for behavioral change strategies and future research.

INTRODUCTION The foundation for healthy lifestyle behaviors begins in childhood. As such, the relationships among cognitive beliefs, healthy lifestyle choices, and healthy lifestyle behaviors in adolescents have been explored. The purpose of this study was to assess the relationships among cognitive variables, social support, and healthy lifestyle behaviors in adolescents. METHOD A descriptiv...

Cancer and beyond: healthy lifestyle choices for cancer survivors.

Healthy lifestyle choices: could sense of coherence aid health promotion?

BACKGROUND A research framework based on the personal characteristic defined by a sense of coherence (SOC) focuses on the effective use of resources to maintain good health. OBJECTIVES To test the hypothesis that individual differences in SOC are associated with healthier lifestyle choices independently of social class and education. DESIGN AND SETTING Cross sectional. Population based coho...

Telomeres and Lifestyle Choices

Future time perspective and life events across adulthood.

Age differences in future time perspective and the relations between future time perspective, locus of control, and past and anticipated future life events were examined in younger (ages 20 to 37) and older (ages 60 to 81) men and women. There were neither age nor gender differences in the time period participants reported thinking of most frequently. Participants reported thinking about the ne...