Journal of Health Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Health Psychology is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Health behaviour changes during COVID-19 and the potential consequences: A mini-review228
Human needs in COVID-19 isolation228
The prevalence of psychological consequences of COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies110
COVID-19 pandemic as a watershed moment: A call for systematic psychological health care for frontline medical staff109
Post-traumatic stress disorder and psychological distress in Chinese youths following the COVID-19 emergency91
The case for body positivity on social media: Perspectives on current advances and future directions86
How scientific reasoning correlates with health-related beliefs and behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic?53
A systematic review of the prevalence of anxiety symptoms during coronavirus epidemics50
Psychological assistance during the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak in China49
Days of worry: Emotional intelligence and social support mediate worry in the COVID-19 pandemic48
Psychological symptoms of the outbreak of the COVID-19 confinement in Spain46
Fear of COVID-19 scale: Assessing fear of the coronavirus pandemic in Brazil44
Acceptance and commitment therapy for family caregivers: A systematic review and meta-analysis43
Is there a relationship between spirituality/religiosity and resilience? A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies42
Family support as a protective factor for attitudes toward social distancing and in preserving positive mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic41
Vaccination policy reactance: Predictors, consequences, and countermeasures38
Social Prescribing as ‘Social Cure’: A longitudinal study of the health benefits of social connectedness within a Social Prescribing pathway38
Exploring the impacts of media use and media trust on health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic in China37
The relationship between psychological capital and mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic: A longitudinal mediation model37
Prevention for oneself or others? Psychological and social factors that explain social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic29
Men’s attitudes toward mask-wearing during COVID-19: Understanding the complexities of mask-ulinity29
COVID-19 among Chinese high school graduates: Psychological distress, growth, meaning in life and resilience28
Factors mediating the psychological well-being of healthcare workers responding to global pandemics: A systematic review27
Sleep disturbance and cognitive functioning among firefighters26
The COVID-19 Own Risk Appraisal Scale (CORAS): Development and validation in two samples from the United Kingdom25
Dishonesty during a pandemic: The concealment of COVID-19 information24
Childhood maltreatment and life satisfaction in adulthood: The mediating effect of emotional intelligence, positive affect and negative affect24
“Everything feels risky now”: Perceived “risky” sexual behavior during COVID-19 pandemic23
Patient activation in adults with chronic conditions: A systematic review22
COVID-19 preventive behaviours in White British and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) people in the UK22
Relationships between sleep, exercise timing, and chronotype in young adults21
Moral distress in medicine: An ethical analysis20
Causal attributions and perceived stigma for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome20
Cyberbullying victimization and problematic Internet use among Chinese adolescents: Longitudinal mediation through mindfulness and depression20
Cumulative lifetime stress exposure predicts greater impulsivity and addictive behaviors18
Celebrity influence on body image and eating disorders: A review17
Financial distress and suicidal behaviour during COVID-19: Family identification attenuates the negative relationship between COVID-related financial distress and mental Ill-health17
Associations between pornography exposure, body image and sexual body image: A systematic review17
Childhood maltreatment on young adult depression: A moderated mediation model of negative automatic thoughts and self-compassion17
Life on pause: An analysis of UK fertility patients’ coping mechanisms after the cancellation of fertility treatment due to COVID-1917
Childhood abuse, pregnancy-related anxiety and the mediating role of resilience and social support17
Longitudinal analysis of subjective well-being in preadolescents: The role of emotional intelligence, self-esteem and perceived stress17
Implicit theories of health, consideration of future consequences, and engagement in health protective behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic in China17
Psychological distress experienced by physicians and nurses at a tertiary care center in Lebanon during the COVID-19 outbreak15
Long Covid at the crossroads: Comparisons and lessons from the treatment of patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)15
Psychological impact in the time of COVID-19: A cross-sectional population survey study during confinement14
Acute impact of a national lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic on wellbeing outcomes among individuals with chronic pain14
The roles of life stress and preventive health behaviors on parent mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic14
Why do selfies increase young women’s willingness to consider cosmetic surgery in China? The mediating roles of body surveillance and body shame14
Coping self-efficacy influences health information avoidance13
Differential effects of traditional and social media use on COVID-19 preventive behaviors: The mediating role of risk and efficacy perceptions13
A randomized controlled trial of cognitive behavioral therapy compared with diabetes education for diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain13
A more comprehensive measure of vaccine hesitancy: Creation of the Multidimensional Vaccine Hesitancy Scale (MVHS)13
The psychological burden of a two-stage exchange of infected total hip and knee arthroplasties12
Finding the silver lining in the COVID-19 crisis12
#BetterHealth: A qualitative analysis of reactions to the UK government’s better health campaign12
Post-traumatic growth among 5195 adolescents at 8.5 years after exposure to the Wenchuan earthquake: Roles of post-traumatic stress disorder and self-esteem12
Coping strategies as mediators in the relation between perceived social support and job burnout among Chinese firefighters12
A cross-sectional study of physical activity behaviour and associations with wellbeing during the UK coronavirus lockdown11
Eating pathology and depressive symptoms as predictors of excessive weight gain during pregnancy11
The relationship between active coping and hope during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of meaning in life11
Emotion regulation mediates relationships between perceived childhood invalidation, emotional reactivity, and emotional eating11
Emotional distress among parent caregivers of adolescents with sickle cell disease: Association with patients and caregivers variables11
Childhood trauma, depression, resilience and suicide risk in individuals with inflammatory bowel disease11
How do cystic fibrosis patients experience parenthood? A systematic review11
Association between quality of life and risk behaviors in Brazilian adolescents: An exploratory study11
Lived experience in people with inflammatory bowel disease and comorbid anxiety and depression in the United Kingdom and Australia11
Religious affiliation and philosophical and moral beliefs about vaccines: A longitudinal study11
Depressive symptoms among patients with lung cancer: Elucidating the roles of shame, guilt, and self-compassion11
The need for a standardized conceptual term to describe invalidation of patient symptoms10
Sharing clinical notes, and placebo and nocebo effects: Can documentation affect patient health?10
Risk perception of COVID-19: Susceptibility and severity perceived by the Brazilian population10
Relations between protective traits and psychological distress among women experiencing infertility10
Does how you treat yourself affect your health? The relationship between health-promoting behaviors and self-compassion among a community sample10
How is obesity associated with happiness? Evidence from China10
COVID-19 pandemic preventive behaviors and causal beliefs among Italian community dwelling adults10
Older adults’ construal of sedentary behaviour: Implications for reducing sedentary behaviour in older adult populations9
Sense of purpose in life and motivation, barriers, and engagement in physical activity and sedentary behavior: Test of a mediational model9
A review of psychological symptoms and post-traumatic growth among adolescent and young adult survivors of childhood cancer9
Potential contributing roles of early affiliative memories, social safeness and body appreciation to adolescents’ well-being9
Do gender, anxiety, or sleep quality predict mindfulness-based stress reduction outcomes?9
Evidence against risk as a motivating driver of COVID-19 preventive behaviors in the United States9
Associations between specific physical activity domains and social isolation in 102,072 Brazilian adolescents: Data from the 2015 National School–Based Health Survey9
Feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary impact of telemedicine-administered cognitive behavioral therapy for adherence and depression among African American women living with HIV in the rural Sout9
Group singing improves both physical and psychological wellbeing in people with and without chronic health conditions: A narrative review9
Mental health outcomes among individuals with 46,XY disorders of sex development: A systematic review9
The meaning of loneliness to stroke survivors: A qualitative study in Northeast England9
Predicting intentions to practice COVID-19 preventative behaviors in the United States: A test of the risk perception attitude framework and the theory of normative social behavior9
A longitudinal study of the influence of concerns about contagion on negative affect during the COVID-19 lockdown in adults: The moderating effect of gender and resilience8
Relationships between resilience and quality of life in parents of children with cancer8
The long arm of childhood: The prolonged influence of adverse childhood experiences on depression during middle and old age in China8
The effects of social distancing and self-isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic on adults diagnosed with asthma: A qualitative study8
Experiences of weight stigma in everyday life: An ecological momentary assessment study8
The association of different interoceptive dimensions with functional gastrointestinal symptoms8
The mediating role of vaccine hesitancy in the relations of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs and vaccination outcomes: Which dimensions matter?8
The role of COVID-19 fears and related behaviors in understanding daily adolescent health behaviors during the pandemic8
Acceptability of transcranial direct current stimulation in children and adolescents with ADHD: The point of view of parents8
Im getting the balls to say no’: Trajectories in long-term recovery from problem substance use8
Self-compassion and sleep quality: Examining the mediating role of taking a proactive health focus and cognitive emotional regulation strategies8
Pathways from emotional intelligence to well-being and health outcomes among unemployed: Mediation by health-promoting behaviours8
The role of intuition in vaccination attitudes8
Rates and prospective psychosocial correlates of pre-loss grief in cancer and dementia family members8
Skin tone, life satisfaction, and psychological distress among African Americans: The mediating effect of stigma consciousness8
The effect of resilience on the relationship between perceived stress and change in alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic in Queensland, Australia8
Racism-related stress and psychological distress: Black Women’s Experiences Living with Lupus study8
Identity cues influence sexual minorities’ anticipated treatment and disclosure intentions in healthcare settings: Exploring a multiple pathway model7
The draft updated NICE guidance for ME/CFS highlights the unreliability of subjective outcome measures in non-blinded trials7
Physical and psychological correlates of self and body compassion in women with polycystic ovary syndrome7
Understanding weight stigma in eating disorder treatment: Development and initial validation of a treatment-based stigma scale7
Social support buffers the impacts of Diabetes distress on health-related quality of life among type 2 diabetic patients7
When do people believe, check, and share health rumors on social media? Effects of evidence type, health literacy, and health knowledge7
How do you think about stress? A qualitative analysis of beliefs about stress7
Cascading effects of childhood abuse on physical health issues in later adulthood through trait anxiety and poor daily sleep quality7
A systematic review of the characteristics of interventions that promote physical activity in adults with asthma7
Maternal sensitivity and mother-infant attachment are associated with antibiotic uptake in infancy7
Black (patients’) lives matter: Exploring the role of identity-safety cues in healthcare settings among Black Americans7
Decreased COVID-related adaptive behavior and increased negative affect: A multivariate latent growth curve model7
Perception of family sense of coherence during parental transition: A qualitative study7
Communicating and understanding pain: Limitations of pain scales for patients with sickle cell disorder and other painful conditions7
Relationship of economic development, family income and health status in China: The moderating role of environmental pollution perception7
Disordered eating in the postpartum period: Role of psychological distress, body dissatisfaction, dysfunctional maternal beliefs and self-compassion7
Systematic Review: Effectiveness of psychosocial interventions on wellbeing outcomes for adolescent or adult victim/survivors of recent rape or sexual assault7
Differential relationships of somatization, depression, and anxiety to severity of Crohn’s disease7
Role of resilience and emotional control in relation to mental health in people with cancer7
Enjoying nature, exercise, social interaction, and affect: A daily diary study7
“I’ll work out tomorrow”: The Procrastination in Exercise Scale7
Depression symptoms, HIV testing, linkage to ART, and viral suppression among women in a high HIV burden district in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A cross-sectional household study6
Do diagnostic criteria for ME matter to patient experience with services and interventions? Key results from an online RDS survey targeting fatigue patients in Norway6
Just a Flu? Self-perceived infection mediates the link between conspiracy beliefs and Covid-19 health beliefs and behaviors6
Why tightness alone is not enough: The varying anti-pathogenic effects of rational values and cultural tightness at different phases of the COVID-19 pandemic6
The feasibility and preliminary effects of a pilot randomized controlled trial: Videoconferencing acceptance and commitment therapy in distressed family caregivers of people with dementia6
Bringing the laboratory into the home: A protocol for remote biobehavioral data collection in pregnant women with emotion dysregulation and their infants6
She “didn’t see my weight; she saw me, a mom who needed help breastfeeding”: Perceptions of perinatal weight stigma and its relationship with breastfeeding experiences6
Relative deprivation and social anxiety among Chinese migrant children: Testing a moderated mediation model of perceived control and belief in a just world6
Research misconduct complaints and institutional logics: The case of Hans Eysenck and the British Psychological Society6
Approach bias modification training to increase physical activity: A pilot randomized controlled trial in healthy volunteers6
Discrimination, perceived control, and psychological health among African Americans with hypertension6
A qualitative investigation of reasoning behind decisions to decline participation in a research intervention: A study-within-a-trial6
Does the attribution of responsibilities modify the relationship between coping styles and mental health? A survey of Chinese adults during the COVID-19 pandemic6
Psychology’s medicalization of male baldness6
Mumbod? A comparison of body image and dietary restraint among women with younger, older, and no children6
Psychosocial interventions for adults with newly diagnosed chronic disease: A systematic review6
Moral distress during COVID-19: The importance of perceived organizational support for hospital nurses6
Analysis of healthcare workers’ mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a three-wave longitudinal study5
Body weight perception outweighs body weight when predicting shame, criticism, depression and anxiety for lower BMI range and higher BMI range adults5
Gratitude and social support mediate the association between mindfulness and mood: A cross-cultural replication study5
Pain intensity and physical performance among individuals with fibromyalgia in mid-to-late life: The influence of depressive symptoms5
Does media slant polarize compliance with science-based public health recommendations? Effects of media consumption patterns on COVID-19 attitudes and behaviors in the United States5
Associations of childhood trauma experiences with religious and spiritual struggles5
Locking down behavioural compliance: The role of emotion and emotion regulation in breaches of COVID-19 mitigation measures in Aotearoa New Zealand5
The centrality of disclosure decisions to the illness experience for youth with chronic conditions: A qualitative study5
Perceptions of body weight that vary by body mass index: Clear associations with perceptions based on personal control and responsibility5
‘It’s social interaction. . . but it’s not’: A qualitative study investigating the psycho-social experience of social media by individuals with a visual impairment5
A model to understand COVID-19 preventive behaviors in young adults: Health locus of control and pandemic-related fear5
Depression, psychosocial correlates, and psychosocial resources in individuals with mast cell activation syndrome5
Intuitive eating and body appreciation in type 2 diabetes5
National longitudinal evidence for growth in subjective well-being from spiritual beliefs5
Health-related quality of life in endometriosis: The influence of endometriosis-related symptom presence and distress5
The development of a brief measure of health personality5
Body image profiles and exercise behaviours in early motherhood. A latent profile analysis5
Ettore’s song: The hero who had the courage to fight Achilles5
‘You get looked at like you’re failing’: A reflexive thematic analysis of experiences of mental health and wellbeing support for NHS staff5
Intolerance of uncertainty and distress in women with delayed IVF treatment due to the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of situation appraisal and coping strategies5
Non-stigmatising alternatives to anti-obesity public health messages: Consequences for health behaviour and well-being5
Examining core self-management skills among adolescents with celiac disease5
Individual risky and protective factors influencing university new graduates’ career adaptability during COVID-19: A moderated mediation model5
Activation in individuals with vision loss5
Understanding the relationship between sleep and quality of life in type 2 diabetes: A systematic review of the literature4
What is the direction of the association between social support and coping in cancer patients? A systematic review4
The potential benefits of camps for children and adolescents with celiac disease on social support, illness acceptance, and health-related quality of life4
Cognitive decline in mid-life: Changes in memory and cognition related to hypothyroidism4
Placebo effects on the quantity and quality of relaxation training4
A comparison of perceived effectiveness of preventive behaviors against COVID-19 between the public and medical experts: Not so different in means, but in distributions4
Worry much? Preventive health behaviours related to worry across countries amid COVID-194
Coping with childhood maltreatment: Avoidance and eating disorder symptoms4
The ‘medically unexplained symptoms’ syndrome concept and the cognitive-behavioural treatment model4
How COVID-19 prevention burnout impacts emotional symptoms among Chinese college students: A moderated mediation model4
Self-compassion and responses to health information in middle-aged and older women: An observational cohort study4
Incentive sensitization for exercise reinforcement to increase exercise behaviors4
Men’s and women’s endorsement of hegemonic masculinity and responses to COVID-194
Self-image and social-image of the donors: Two different views from oocyte donors’ eyes4
Framing the meaning of COVID-19 and the psychological responses to it: Insights gleaned from selected theoretical approaches4
Gender differences in the risk and protective factors of marijuana use among U.S. College students4
The relationship between COVID-19-induced death thoughts and depression during a national lockdown4
The different impacts of COVID-19 on the mental health of distinct health care worker categories4
Food insecurity is associated with serious psychological distress among low-income California adults4
Put MY mask on first: Mothers’ reactions to prioritizing health behaviours as a function of self-compassion and fear of self-compassion4
Cardiopulmonary capacity and psychological factors are related to return to work in orthopedic rehabilitation patients4
Associations among physical activity tracking, physical activity motivation and level of physical activity in young adults4
Relationship quality and objectively measured physical activity before and after implementation of COVID-19 stay-home orders4
Mitigating the identity and health threat of COVID-19: Perspectives of middle-class South Asians living in the UK4
The mechanisms between illness representations of COVID-19 and behavioral intention to visit hospitals for scheduled medical consultations in a Chinese general population4
Social support and pre-operative anxiety in patients undergoing elective surgical procedures: A systematic review and meta-analysis4
More work, better health? The moderation effect of employee-organizational psychological distance4
Individual factors in the relationship between stress and resilience in mental health psychology practitioners during the COVID-19 pandemic4
Psychosocial determinants of anxiety about the COVID-19 pandemic4
Older adults’ physical activity-related social control and social support in the context of personal norms4
Effect of family stress on life satisfaction among female workers during the COVID-19 epidemic in China: Exploring the roles of anxiety symptoms and age4
Psychological resilience is an independent correlate of health-related quality of life in middle-aged and older adults with HIV in the Deep South4
Understanding barriers and facilitators to participation in colorectal cancer screening: A French qualitative study4
Measuring adolescent attitudes towards dementia: The revalidation and refinement of the A-ADS4
The associations of pandemic-related difficulties with depressive symptoms and psychological growth among American older adults: Social support as moderators4
Masculine ideology and Black men who have sex with men’s interest in HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)4
Multifactorial causal beliefs and colorectal cancer screening: A structural equation modeling investigation4
Reciprocal relations between past behavior, implicit beliefs, and habits: A cross-lagged panel design4
Can ancient and modern stressors be distinguished? A mixed-methods exploration of psychosocial characteristics and health symptoms in young and older adults4
The effect of repeated episodic future thinking on the relative reinforcing value of snack food4
Sickness Questionnaire: A two-factor instrument reflecting physical and mental symptoms in the Chinese context3
Parents’ parenting styles differences are associated with lifetime suicidal ideation: Evidence from Chinese medical college students3
The interplay between binge eating risk factors: Toward an integrated model3
Determination of risks of lower adherence to CPAP treatment before their first use by patients3
Predicting health behaviors across Belgium and France during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic3
Psychosocial stressors among Ghanaians in rural and urban Ghana and Ghanaian migrants in Europe3
Item response analysis to explore psychometric properties of the Persian version of Troutman successful aging inventory: Rasch partial credit model3
Using artificial intelligence to examine online patient reviews3
Grandparent-child cohesion, friendship quality, and left-behind children’s positive/negative affect in rural China3
Psychological homeostasis and protective behaviours in the COVID-19 pandemic3
Assessment of anxiety in Mexican persons living with HIV using a culturally-adapted version of the GAD-7 test3
Assessing LGBTQ+ stigma among healthcare professionals: An application of the health stigma and discrimination framework in a qualitative, community-based participatory research study3
Implementation of a self-determination based clinical program to reduce cardiovascular disease risk3
Novels as data: Health humanities and health psychology3
Looking bad: Female patients drawing their representation of chemotherapy-induced alopecia3
Putting the ‘teachable moment’ in context: A view from critical health psychology3
Promoting prosociality toward future generations in antibiotic intake3
Glycemic outcomes related to depression in adults with type 1 diabetes3
Gender discrimination and women’s HPA activation to psychosocial stress during the postnatal period3
Computer-delivered personalized feedback intervention for hazardous drinkers with elevated anxiety sensitivity: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial3
Physicians privilege responding to emotional cues in oncologic consultations: A study utilizing Verona Coding Definitions of Emotional Sequences3
Dismissal, distrust, and dismay: A phenomenological exploration of young women’s diagnostic experiences with endometriosis and subsequent support3
Encouraging foot care in people with and without diabetes through narrative communication3
Does the duration of childhood starvation affect life at age 45 or older in China? The mediating role of socioeconomic and health statuses3
Don’t drink and drive, it’s a prime: Cognitive effects of priming alcohol-congruent and incongruent goals among heavy versus light drinkers3
The impact of preoperative pain-related psychological factors on pain intensity post-surgery in Jordan3
The impact of stressors and overload on informal caregivers of patients with cirrhosis: The first use of the Burden Scale for Family Caregivers in Brazil3
A thematic analysis of smokers’ and non-smokers’ accounts of E-cigarettes3
Resilience factors during the Coronavirus pandemic: Testing the main effect and stress buffering models of optimism and positive affect with mental and physical health3
Weight stigma is associated with provider-patient relationship factors and adherence for individuals with hypothyroidism3
Increasing the transparency, openness and replicability of psychological research: Mandatory data sharing for empirical studies in the Journal of Health Psychology3
Self-rated health and multimorbidity in patients with type 2 diabetes3
Correlates of depression and anxiety among homeless adults with latent tuberculosis infection3
Superwoman’s kryptonite: The superwoman schema and perceived barriers to weight management among U.S. Black women3
Exploring the longitudinal clustering of lifestyle behaviors, social determinants of health, and depression3
Informal caregiver motivations, values, challenges and gains: A photovoice and interpretative phenomenological analysis of interrelationships2
Fear of COVID-19 and the career maturity of Chinese international high school students: The mediating effect of the intolerance of uncertainty2
Psychometric evaluation of the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control scales in English- and Spanish-speaking Hispanic Americans2
Subjective social status is indirectly associated with short-term smoking cessation through nicotine withdrawal symptoms2
Self-compassion as predictor of daily physical symptoms and chronic illness across older adulthood2
Attitudinal and social predictors of adherence to oral endocrine therapy: A psychometrically-informed model2
Identity resilience, science mistrust, COVID-19 risk and fear predictors of vaccine positivity and vaccination likelihood: A survey of UK and Portuguese samples2
Comparative study of paper-and-pencil and electronic formats of the Snaith-Hamilton Pleasure Scale2
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