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JOURNAL OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 20, Issue 5, Pages 473-482Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1359105315576604
Keywords
adolescence; eating behavior; exercise behavior; life meaning; values; well-being
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- Domus Hungarica Scientiarum et Atrium /I by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary)
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The present longitudinal study investigated the incremental contribution of meaning in life to sustaining health-promoting behaviors, after controlling for well-being and health values among East-European adolescents (N=456). Time 1 responses on presence of meaning, search for meaning, well-being, and health values were used to predict levels of healthy eating and physical activity 13months later. All independent variables significantly predicted engagement in healthy eating and physical activity. Presence of meaning and search for meaning were the most robust predictors, and the interaction of them predicted additional variance in healthy eating among boys and physical activity among girls.
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