Trial reportPsychology & health2021
Same-day, cross-day, and upward spiral relations between positive affect and positive health behaviours.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A systematic review on the effectiveness of unstandardized mindfulness interventions in improving dietary and physical activity outcomes in healthy adults.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Savor-Aging: The Art of Savoring Positive Emotions in Older Adulthood-A Randomized Controlled Trial.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2026Trial
- Optimism and cognitive functioning trajectories in a cohort of aging men.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- Interparental Positivity Spillover Theory: How Parents' Positive Relational Interactions Influence Children.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Review
- Testing the validity of the broaden-and build theory of positive emotions: a network analytic approach.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Does shared positivity make life more meaningful? Perceived positivity resonance is uniquely associated with perceived meaning in life.Journal of personality and social psychology · 2023Article
- Daily Physical Activity: Associations With Memory and Affect.American journal of health promotion : AJHP · 2023Article
- 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 · 2022Article
- Resilience and job satisfaction among out-of-hospital emergency medical service professionals: A cross-sectional multi-centric study.Journal of nursing management · 2022Article
- Review
- Functional Mechanisms of Health Behavior Change Techniques: A Conceptual Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Is informal caregiving at odds with optimal health behaviour? A cross-sectional analysis in the caregiving partners of persons with spinal cord injury.Health psychology and behavioral medicine · 2020Article
- The Big Three Health Behaviors and Mental Health and Well-Being Among Young Adults: A Cross-Sectional Investigation of Sleep, Exercise, and Diet.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectiveThis project investigated same-day and lagged (i.e., from one day to the next) associations between daily positive affect and three distinct positive health behaviours: physical activity, fruit and vegetable intake, and meditation. Cross-day analyses also examined the role of positive affect felt during the targeted health behaviours.
designSecondary data analyses used a 9-week daily diary study in which midlife adults (
resultsResults of same-day analyses revealed positive associations, both between-person and within-person, for the three positive health behaviours with daily positive affect. Results of lagged analyses revealed that positive affect experienced during fruit and vegetable intake on a given day predicted next-day fruit and vegetable intake, and that fruit and vegetable intake on a given day predicted next-day positive affect.
conclusionThe observed same-day relations between daily positive affect and engagement in positive health behaviours illuminate one path through which positive affect may contribute to health. The observed cross-day relations reveal a need for interdisciplinary research on mechanisms through which fruit and vegetable intake may shape next-day positive affect.
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