Prospective associations between stressful life course events and clusters of lifestyle behaviours.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The adoption of health-damaging lifestyle behaviours may be a coping mechanism stemming from maladaptive behavioural stress response to stress exposure, but little is known about the influence of stressors on health-damaging lifestyle behaviour clusters. This study aimed to identify clusters of lifestyle behaviours based on six lifestyle-related behaviours and to examine the associations between childhood adversity, stressful and traumatic life events, and the clusters of lifestyle behaviours in community-dwelling Australian adults.

Methods

This prospective study comprises 1773 adults aged 40-44 years at baseline from the Personality and Total Health (PATH) Through Life Study. Data on childhood adversity, stressful life events, traumatic life events were obtained

SUBMITTER: Siew RVK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12461985 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature