A Daily Diary Study of Rumination and Health Behaviors: Modeling Moderators and Mediators.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Rumination, thinking about a negative mood repetitively, is a common cognitive process that may affect health behavior engagement or avoidance. Little research has examined relations between rumination and health behaviors.

Purpose

We aimed to test links between rumination and health behaviors as well as possible moderators and mediators of those links.

Methods

We used an 11-day online daily diary design. Health behavior outcomes included fruit intake, vegetable intake, exercise, alcohol intake, sexual risk taking behavior, and cigarette smoking.

Results

Rumination was related to alcohol intake at the within-person level. Using multivariate modeling, we found that significant within-person mediators for rumination to health behaviors included impulsiv

SUBMITTER: Riley KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6636887 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature