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Social and Individual Resources for Health and Wellbeing across the Life Course

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 December 2023) | Viewed by 7742

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Anna Dzielska

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Department of Child and Adolescent Health, Institute of Mother and Child, Kasprzaka 17a Street, 01-211 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: eating behaviour; body weight perception; body image; weight reduction behaviour; obesity
Dr. Agnieszka Malkowska-Szkutnik

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Department of Biomedical Foundations of Development and Sexology, Faculty of Education, Warsaw University, 00-561 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: chronic conditions; health pedagogy; developmental psychology; developmental disorders

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Improving human health and wellbeing is currently a priority of public health activities. Although this area has been widely studied, our knowledge of social and behavioural determinants and physical and mental health is limited. Many factors affect human health and wellbeing, such as family status [1], social structure [2], neighbourhood features [3], the country’s macroeconomic indicators [4], etc.

This Special Issue aims to investigate the relationship between social and individual resources and human health and wellbeing and identify the main predictors of a positive attitude towards life and the self across one’s life course.

Original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

1. Pförtner, T.K.; Moor, I.; Rathmann, K.; Hublet, A.; Molcho, M.; Kunst, A.E.; Richter, M. The association between family affluence and smoking among 15-year-old adolescents in 33 European countries, Israel and Canada: The role of national wealth. Addiction 2015, 110, 162–173. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed]

2. Moore, G.F.; Littlecott, H.J. School- and family-level socioeconomic status and health behaviors: Multilevel analysis of a national survey in Wales, United Kingdom. J. Sch. Health 2015, 85, 267–275. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed]

3. De Looze, M.; Janssen, I.; Elgar, F.J.; Craig, W.; Pickett, W. Neighbourhood crime and adolescent cannabis use in Canadian adolescents. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2015, 146, 68–74. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed]

4. Ter Bogt, T.F.; de Looze, M.; Molcho, M.; Godeau, E.; Hublet, A.; Kokkevi, A.; Kuntsche, E.; Nic Gabhainn, S.; Franelic, I.P.; Simons-Morton, B.; et al. Do societal wealth, family affluence and gender account for trends in adolescent cannabis use? A 30 country cross-national study. Addiction 2014, 109, 273–283. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Dr. Anna Dzielska
Dr. Agnieszka Malkowska-Szkutnik
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • social and individual resources
  • health and wellbeing across the life course
  • body image
  • weight reduction behaviour
  • positive attitude
  • health behaviours
  • social relations and neighbourhood

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Sleep and Perceived Stress: An Exploratory Mediation Analysis of the Role of Self-Control and Resilience among University Students
by Silvia Aracely Tafoya, Vania Aldrete-Cortez, Fabiola Tafoya-Ramos, Claudia Fouilloux-Morales and Claudia Díaz-Olavarrieta
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(16), 6560; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20166560 - 11 Aug 2023
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Background: High levels of stress are frequent in university education, and a lack of sleep has been reported to make students more vulnerable to stress. The mechanisms through which sleep harms students have not been sufficiently clarified; therefore, this study aimed to explore [...] Read more.
Background: High levels of stress are frequent in university education, and a lack of sleep has been reported to make students more vulnerable to stress. The mechanisms through which sleep harms students have not been sufficiently clarified; therefore, this study aimed to explore the mediating role of self-control and resilience in the relationship between sleep quality and duration and perceived stress. Methods: Of 32 first-year college students, 21 (78%) were women, with a mean age of 18.47 (±0.84). They responded to a self-administered survey that included questions on stress, resilience, and sleep quality and recorded their daily sleep duration using a wristband for six days. Results: Perceived stress was significantly correlated with resilience (r = −0.63), self-control (r = −0.46), sleep duration (r = −0.35), and lower sleep quality (r = 0.57). Path analysis revealed that self-control and resilience were partially mediated by sleep quality (R2 = 0.62; p < 0.01) and completely mediated by sleep duration (R2 = 0.46; p < 0.01). In both models, self-control had a direct effect on resilience and had a good-fit index. Conclusion: Being resilient seems to play a mediating role in the relationship between sleep and perceived stress; this ability can be favored by self-control, which is directly influenced by sleep. Full article
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Clustering of the Adult Population According to Behavioural Health Risk Factors as the Focus of Community-Based Public Health Interventions in Poland
by Anna Poznańska, Katarzyna Lewtak, Bogdan Wojtyniak, Jakub Stokwiszewski and Bożena Moskalewicz
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(5), 4402; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20054402 - 1 Mar 2023
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Effective lifestyle health promotion interventions require the identification of groups sharing similar behavioural risk factors (BRF) and socio-demographic characteristics. This study aimed to identify these subgroups in the Polish population and check whether local authorities’ health programmes meet their needs. Population data came [...] Read more.
Effective lifestyle health promotion interventions require the identification of groups sharing similar behavioural risk factors (BRF) and socio-demographic characteristics. This study aimed to identify these subgroups in the Polish population and check whether local authorities’ health programmes meet their needs. Population data came from a 2018 question survey on a random representative sample of 3000 inhabitants. Four groups were identified with the TwoStep cluster analysis method. One of them (“Multi-risk”) differed from the others and the general population by a high prevalence of numerous BRF: 59% [95% confidence interval: 56–63%] of its members smoke, 35% [32–38%] have alcohol problems, 79% [76–82%] indulge in unhealthy food, 64% [60–67%] do not practice recreational physical activity, and 73% [70–76%] are overweight. This group, with an average age of 50, was characterised by an excess of males (81% [79–84%]) and people with basic vocational education (53% [50–57%]). In 2018, only 40 out of all 228 health programmes in Poland addressed BRF in adults; only 20 referred to more than one habit. Moreover, access to these programmes was limited by formal criteria. There were no programmes dedicated to the reduction of BRF exclusively. The local governments focused on improving access to health services rather than on a pro-health change in individual behaviours. Full article
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