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ArticleBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Self-Selected Leisure Promotes Ambulatory Blood Pressure Dipping: A Within-Person Randomized Field Experiment.

Marcellus M Merritt, Matthew J Zawadzki, Jack M Cowger

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Article in Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Marcellus M MerrittDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7942-6826
Matthew J ZawadzkiDepartment of Psychological Sciences, University of California Merced, Merced, CA 95343, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6968-084X
Jack M CowgerDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA.ORCID 0009-0009-9113-3258

Funding

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 189-487905-2-PRJ73CA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An early indicator of future cardiovascular risk is lower levels of nighttime blood pressure (BP) dipping from day to night. Prior work has been limited to identifying health behaviors that can promote greater dipping. This pilot study proposes that one possible set of behaviors may be engagement in self-selected leisure activities (SSLAs, or freely chosen non-work activities that are performed with the purpose of relaxation and/or mental escape), which have been linked with reduced daily stress and general daily BP control. Healthy young adult college students [

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blood pressurecardiovasculardippingleisureobesitystress management

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PMID41595088
PMCPMC12837200

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