Emotional and Instrumental Social Support in Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Mental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2023) | Viewed by 2337
Special Issue Editor
2. Department of Psychiatry, Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai 980-8574, Japan
Interests: child and adolescent psychiatry; epidemiology; neuroimage; suicide; social support; lifestyle
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Engaging in healthy lifestyle behaviors—not smoking, drinking alcohol in moderation, eating healthily, regular exercise, and maintaining an optimal weight—decreases the risk of developing of diseases such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. Healthy lifestyle behaviors are also the first-line intervention for non-communicable diseases’ prevention and management. However, it is difficult to promote healthy lifestyle behaviors to the general population, and the adoption of healthy lifestyle behaviors among patients with non-communicable diseases is always challenging. People’s cognition, affect, characteristics and experiences influence their adoption of healthy lifestyle behaviors and self-efficacy is an important aspect in engaging in healthy lifestyle behaviors.
Social support is key to promoting healthy lifestyle behaviors and has both practical and psychological influences on behavior change. Social support is a broad term encompassing a variety of constructs, and represents the functional content of relationships that can be categorized into two dimensions of supportive behavior or action—emotional and instrumental support. In order to promote healthy lifestyle behaviors, it will be necessary to share knowledge about the relationship between social support and healthy lifestyle behaviors. This Special Issue welcomes papers that investigate the emotional and instrumental social support associated with promoting healthy lifestyle behaviors.
Dr. Tatsui Otsuka
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- healthy lifestyle behaviors
- emotional social support
- instrumental social support
- behavior change
- promotion
- intervention
