Tracking variations in daily questionable health behaviors and their psychological roots: a preregistered experience sampling study.

ABSTRACT: People resort to various questionable health practices to preserve or regain health - they intentionally do not adhere to medical recommendations (e.g. self-medicate or modify the prescribed therapies; iNAR), or use traditional/complementary/alternative (TCAM) medicine. As retrospective reports overestimate adherence and suffer from recall and desirability bias, we tracked the variations in daily questionable health behaviors and compared them to their retrospectively reported lifetime use. We also preregistered and explored their relations to a wide set of psychological predictors - distal (personality traits and basic thinking dispositions) and proximal (different unfounded beliefs and biases grouped under the term irrational mindset). A community sample (N = 224) tracked daily engagemen

SUBMITTER: Lazarevic LB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10462719 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature