Relationship between Unhealthy Lifestyles and Chronic Diseases in Adults
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Unhealthy, Lifestyle, Chronic Diseases, AdultsAbstract
Purpose: Modern approaches in psychological studies, especially those related to the studies of health psychology, pay great attention to the different aspects of the personality, the factors influencing it, the way to measure it as well as its relationship with health and illness.
Materials and Methods: Modern personality researches hold strong similar evidence on the impact of mental trends and thinking processes on the personality compatibility. In addition, perhaps the difference in the degree to which the individual’s health condition is affected is determined as well as biological and physiological factors by other factors related to the personality and the life style of the individual. In other words, the individual’s behavioural approach through daily activities be it nutrition, sleep, physical activity, responding to stress, emotion processing and life style approaches can be a factor of risk on the individual’s life.
Findings: When we discuss the individual’s lifestyle, we refer to the behavioural orientation of the individual through his or her daily activities regarding nutrition (quality, quantity and the way of consuming food…etc.), sleep (hours and type of sleep…etc.), physical activity (practicing different sports and continuity…etc.), responding to stress and managing emotions (some personality traits and ways of handling pressure…etc.) as well as the ways he approaches life. More comprehensively, these can be a factor of risk on the individual’s life, as there has been an increasing recognition during the past two decades that lifestyle plays an essential role in illness as well as being a main factor in improving health.
Implications to Theory, Practice and Policy: Therefore, it is necessary to look into the impact of some of these factors related to illness such as; smoking, alcohol, gluttony… not engaging in sports and so on. All of this is aimed at pursuing a higher purpose which is the evolution of the individual and community health.
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