Longitudinal stability and interrelations between health behavior and subjective well-being in a follow-up of nine years.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The bidirectional relationship between health behavior and subjective well-being has previously been studied sparsely, and mainly for individual health behaviors and regression models. In the present study, we deepen this knowledge focusing on the four principal health behaviors and using structural equation modeling with selected covariates.

Methods

The follow-up data (n = 11,804) was derived from a population-based random sample of working-age Finns from two waves (2003 and 2012) of the Health and Social Support (HeSSup) postal survey. Structural equation modeling was used to study the cross-sectional, cross-lagged, and longitudinal relationships between the four principal health behaviors and subjective well-being at baseline and after the nine-year follow-up a

SUBMITTER: Stenlund S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8555827 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature