Day-to-day variations in health behaviors and daily functioning: two intensive longitudinal studies.

Lavinia Flueckiger, Roselind Lieb, Andrea H Meyer, Cornelia Witthauer, Jutta Mata

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Article in Journal of behavioral medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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8citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

Monitoring Daily Sleep, Mood, and Affect Using Digital Technologies and Wearables: A Systematic Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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Sleep and affect: A conceptual review.Sleep medicine reviews · 2022
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The effect of exercise on cerebral blood flow and executive function among young adults: a double-blinded randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2023
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Examining the clustering of lifestyle factors and affect in daily life: An idiographic approach.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2026
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Sleep quality and sleep deprivation: relationship with academic performance in university students during examination period.Sleep and biological rhythms · 2023
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Continuous-Time Modeling of the Bidirectional Relationship Between Incidental Affect and Physical Activity.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2022
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Health behaviors and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal population-based survey in Germany.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2021
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Is There an Association between Health Risk Behaviours and Academic Achievement among University Students?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Lavinia FlueckigerDivision of Health Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Mannheim, L13, 17, 68131, Mannheim, Germany. flueckiger@uni-mannheim.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4732-0031

Roselind LiebDivision of Clinical Psychology and Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, University of Basel, Missionsstrasse 60/62, 4055, Basel, Switzerland.

Andrea H MeyerDivision of Clinical Psychology and Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, University of Basel, Missionsstrasse 60/62, 4055, Basel, Switzerland.

Cornelia WitthauerDivision of Clinical Psychology and Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, University of Basel, Missionsstrasse 60/62, 4055, Basel, Switzerland.

Jutta MataDivision of Health Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Mannheim, L13, 17, 68131, Mannheim, Germany.

University of Basel · CHTechnische Hochschule Mannheim · DEUniversity of Mannheim · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In two intensive longitudinal studies we examined the daily dynamics in health behaviors and their associations with two important indicators of young adults' daily functioning, namely, affect and academic performance. Over a period of 8 months, university students (Study 1: N = 292; Study 2: N = 304) reported sleep, physical activity, snacking, positive and negative affect, and learning goal achievement. A subsample wore an actigraph to provide an additional measurement of sleep and physical activity and participated in a controlled laboratory snacking situation. Multilevel structural equation models showed that better day-to-day sleep quality or more physical activity than usual, but not snacking, were associated with improved daily functioning, namely, affect and learning goal achievement. Importantly, self-report measurements of health behaviors correlated with behavioral measurements. These findings have the potential to inform health promotion programs aimed at supporting young adults in their daily functioning in good physical and mental health.

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Health BehaviorIntentionSnacksAchievementAdolescentAdultAffectExerciseFemaleGoalsHealthy LifestyleHumansLongitudinal StudiesMaleMental HealthModels, PsychologicalAffectLearning goal achievementMultilevel structural equation modelPhysical activitySleep qualitySnacking

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PMID27544393

DOI10.1007/s10865-016-9787-x

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