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  • Psychology
  • Behavioral medicine

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  • Health behavior scientists increasingly focus on affect-related concepts (e.g., emotion) to understand and change health behaviors.
  • Key behaviors include smoking, eating, physical activity, substance abuse, and sexual behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To provide a narrative review of the literature on affect-related concepts in health behavior science.
  • To present an integrative dual-processing framework for understanding how affect influences health behavior.

Main Methods:

  • Narrative review of existing theory and research.
  • Identification and synthesis of literature on affective response, incidental affect, affect processing, and affectively charged motivation.

Main Results:

  • Affect-related concepts are crucial in understanding health behaviors.
  • Literature covers affective response (e.g., hedonic responses), incidental affect (e.g., stress), affect processing (e.g., regret), and affectively charged motivation (e.g., craving).

Conclusions:

  • An integrative dual-processing framework is proposed.
  • This framework suggests pathways through which affect-related concepts interrelate to influence health behavior.
  • Understanding affect is key to facilitating health behavior change.