SynthesisHealth psychology review2016
Relationship of health locus of control with specific health behaviours and global health appraisal: a meta-analysis and effects of moderators.
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35 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The Relationship Between Perceived Uncontrollable Mortality Risk and Health Effort: Replication, Secondary Analysis, and Mini Meta-analysis.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2024Pooled it
- A meta-analytic review of the associations between dimensions of religious coping and psychological symptoms during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Self-Perceived Individual Health Responsibility Among Healthcare Workers: Associated Factors and Relationship with Preventive Behaviors-A Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Health behaviours as a mediator between health locus of control and cardiovascular risk in young adults with congenital heart defects.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Perspectives on ageing acceptance among women in middle adulthood: a qualitative study.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2025Article
- Hypertension management and health belief in middle-aged laotian population: a cross-sectional survey.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Personal Relative Deprivation and Locus of Control.Journal of personality · 2025Article
- Self-efficacy as a moderator in the relationship between body image and health behaviors in pregnant women.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The Relationship Between Illusory Health Beliefs, Recommended Health Behaviours, and Complementary and Alternative Medicine: An Investigation Across Multiple Time Points.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Community knowledge of Australia's national preventive health strategy focus areas: a nationally representative survey of 1509 adults.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Perceived lack of behavioral control is a barrier to a healthy lifestyle in post-menopause: a qualitative study.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2024Article
- The mediating role of health behaviors in the relationship between internal locus of control and life satisfaction in public health students.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Explaining differences in self-focused and other-involved public health preventive behaviors between the US and China: the role of self- construal and health locus of control.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Healthy lifestyle mediates the association between health locus of control and life satisfaction among college students in Hubei, China: during the normalization stage of COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2023Article
- A Survey of Breastfeeding Attitudes and Health Locus of Control in the Nigerian Population.Maternal and child health journal · 2023Article
- The Relationship Between Meaning in Life and Health Behaviors in Adults Aged 55 Years and Over During the COVID-19 Pandemic: the Mediating Role of Risk Perception and the Moderating Role of Powerful Others Health Locus of Control.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2023Article
- Understanding health behavior change by motivation and reward mechanisms: a review of the literature.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Review
- Effectiveness of a complex psychosocial intervention to reduce metabolic syndrome in psychiatric outpatients with severe/persistent mental illness.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2023Article
- A model to understand COVID-19 preventive behaviors in young adults: Health locus of control and pandemic-related fear.Journal of health psychology · 2022Article
- Trajectories of resilience and mental distress to global major disruptions.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2022Review
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Abstract
Health locus of control (HLOC) refers to beliefs regarding how one's health is influenced by oneself, others, or fate. This meta-analysis investigated whether three HLOC dimensions (internality/I-HLOC, powerful others/P-HLOC, chance/C-HLOC) were related to both specific health behaviours and global health appraisal, and whether these relationships were moderated by gender and age compositions, individualism, and power distance. Three-level mixed-effects meta-analysis was performed on studies examining the associations of HLOC with specific health behaviour (k = 76, N = 76,580, 57% women, M
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