Park Crystal L, Iacocca Megan O
a Department of Psychology , University of Connecticut , Storrs , CT , USA.
Anxiety Stress Coping. 2014;27(2):123-37. doi: 10.1080/10615806.2013.860969. Epub 2013 Dec 10.
Health behaviors such as eating and exercising have been linked to stress in many studies, and researchers suggest that these links are in large part due to the use of health behaviors to cope with stress. However, health behaviors in the context of coping have received relatively little research attention. In this paper, we briefly survey the literature linking stress, coping, and health behaviors, noting that very little research has explicitly examined health behaviors as coping with stress. We address critical theoretical and methodological issues that arise in applying a stress and coping perspective to health behaviors. We conclude with potential directions for interventions, including the need for conceptually solid and methodologically rigorous research and the development of new measures, and with suggestions for future research. The concepts of self-regulation and stress management and their implications in health behavior research and interventions are also discussed.
在许多研究中，饮食和锻炼等健康行为都与压力相关联，研究人员认为，这些关联很大程度上是由于人们利用健康行为来应对压力。然而，应对情境下的健康行为受到的研究关注相对较少。在本文中，我们简要综述了将压力、应对和健康行为联系起来的文献，指出很少有研究明确将健康行为视作应对压力的方式。我们探讨了在将压力与应对视角应用于健康行为时出现的关键理论和方法问题。我们以干预的潜在方向作为结论，包括需要概念扎实且方法严谨的研究以及新测量方法的开发，并给出了未来研究的建议。此外，还讨论了自我调节和压力管理的概念及其在健康行为研究和干预中的意义。
