Current Emotion Research in Health Behavior Science
David M Williams1, Daniel R Evans2
1Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown University School of Public Health, USA.
Summary
Health behavior scientists increasingly use affect-related concepts to understand health behaviors like smoking and eating. This review covers affective response, incidental affect, affect processing, and motivation to explain behavior change.
Area of Science:
- Health behavior science
- Psychology
- Behavioral medicine
Background:
- 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.
Keywords:
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