Journal of Health Psychology

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Health Psychology is 3. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
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 strategies54
The association between adult attachment and quality of life in stroke patients: The mediating roles of fear of disease progression and stigma39
Depression, psychosocial correlates, and psychosocial resources in individuals with mast cell activation syndrome35
Measuring Spiritual Well-being using a numerical rating scale: Additional evidence of the validity of the Well-being Numerical Rating Scales (WB-NRSs)24
Pregnant in a Pandemic: Connecting Perceptions of Uplifts and Hassles to Mental Health24
Assessing the relationship between multimorbidity, psychosocial variables, and clinical outcomes among older adults living in rural Appalachia24
The moderating role of trust in pandemic-relevant institutions on the relation between pandemic fatigue and vaccination intentions23
Identifying the ways in which tobacco cessation interventions have been tailored for sexual and gender minority individuals: A systematic review23
Mental health and exercise during the COVID-19 pandemic: A Twitter sentiment analysis22
The mediating role of community identity in the relationship between social class and life satisfaction: Evidence from Chinese community residents20
Sense of coherence and Covid-19 related stress: A three-wave longitudinal study20
#Bodypositive surpasses 1 billion engagements19
Exploring the role of shame and self-compassion on the link between fibromyalgia symptoms and depression: Insights from mediation and moderation analyses18
Traumatic stress symptoms in civilians after the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war: The protective role of self-compassion and emotional intelligence18
Psychological distress in Aotearoa New Zealand adults with type 1 diabetes18
Caring for a child with cancer: Parental competence, distress, and cortisol levels18
Effectiveness of lifestyle intervention on prevention/management of antipsychotic-induced weight gain among persons with severe mental illness: A systematic review and meta-analysis18
The relationship between COVID-19-induced death thoughts and depression during a national lockdown16
Cognitive decline in mid-life: Changes in memory and cognition related to hypothyroidism16
Cybervictimization and suicidal ideation in adolescents: A prospective view through gratitude and life satisfaction16
Role of personality traits in determining the association between social participation and mental health: A cross-sectional study in Japan15
Moral distress during COVID-19: The importance of perceived organizational support for hospital nurses15
The self-efficacy for regular meditation practice scale (SERMS): Development and psychometric validation15
‘What doesn’t kill you. . .’: A qualitative analysis of factors impacting the quality of life of people living with HIV14
Acceptance of disability in stroke: A qualitative metasynthesis14
Supporting physical activity adoption through recommender system technology: A pilot study14
Body dissatisfaction, negative affect, and engagement in healthy behaviors: The conditional effect of future-self continuity13
Perceived cognitive functioning difficulties in individuals living with endometriosis13
The relationship between active coping and hope during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of meaning in life13
Long Covid at the crossroads: Comparisons and lessons from the treatment of patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)13
Behavior change techniques to increase physical activity among older adults living in long-term care facilities: A systematic review12
Parents’ parenting styles differences are associated with lifetime suicidal ideation: Evidence from Chinese medical college students12
Serial mediation of illness perception and beliefs about medicines in the relationship between patient satisfaction and medication adherence: An evaluation of self-regulatory model in rheumatoid arthr11
Food insecurity and body dissatisfaction in a sample of Canadian adults11
The challenges of open data sharing for qualitative researchers11
Cross-cultural validation of the Jenkins Sleep Scale in Spanish-speaking countries10
A cluster randomized controlled trial of a brief positive healthy eating intervention10
‘I’m looking for support, solidarity, and anecdotes from anyone who has been through something similar’: A content analysis of parents seeking or sharing advice on breastfeeding via Reddit10
Efficacy of positive expressive writing in reducing depression and social anxiety symptoms among schoolchildren during COVID-19: A randomized controlled trial10
Consumers’ and practitioners’ perspectives on the antipsychotic induced metabolic syndrome and challenges in metabolic monitoring to patient prescribed second generation antipsychotics in severe menta10
Using Pender’s health promotion model to understand patient influencers’ promotion of chronic disease self-management10
The underlying mechanisms by which Post-Traumatic Growth is associated with cardiovascular health in male UK military personnel: The ADVANCE cohort study10
Exploring and improving sexual health literacy: Insights from sexual health experts10
Perspectives on advance care planning and related end-of-life care in people with heart failure: A Q methodology study10
Relational conflicts during COVID-19: Impact of loss and reduction of employment due to prevention measures and the influence of sex and stress (in the iCARE study)10
Comprehensive assessment of caregiver burden and strain in early-stage Parkinson’s disease: An exploratory study10
Children and adolescents’ quality of life in repeated cross-sectional studies during the COVID-1910
Health information acquisition and lifestyle choices among cancer survivors in China: Examining the roles of patient-centered communication, patient trust, and system trust10
“We didn’t even have time to worry about our mental health.” Long-term impact of the pandemic on nursing professionals’ experiences9
“I felt like a woman”: A phenomenological qualitative study of disease-related experiences in Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome (MRKH syndrome)9
A moving target: Ideal body size following weight loss surgery9
Self-management and information needs of adults with seasonal allergic rhinitis in the Netherlands: A focus group study9
Validation of the Sibling Perception Questionnaire in healthy siblings of children with chronic illnesses9
People at-risk of an Eating Disorder are more likely to endorse dietary misinformation claims and hold rigid beliefs9
Body image in patients with prostate cancer undergoing treatment with hormone therapy: Observational study using both a cross-sectional and longitudinal design8
Key factors for inappropriate supplement intake in risk-taking users: An exploratory sequential mixed-methods pilot study in Japan8
Encouraging foot care in people with and without diabetes through narrative communication8
Dutch translation and validation of the Stanford Gender-Related Variables for Health Research questionnaire: Associations with lifestyle and mental health8
Responding to the call of the NHS Nightingale, but at what cost? An auto-ethnography of a volunteer frontline mental health trainer’s experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic8
‘It’s that camaraderie’: Experiences of a Long-COVID peer support group for staff working in health, social care and emergency services8
Lived experiences of Idiopathic Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) patients and the perceived impact of the COVID-19 pandemic8
Indirect effects of health-related quality of life on suicidal ideation through psychological distress among cancer patients8
Perceived similarity determines social comparison effects of more and less physically active others8
Discrimination, sleep, and physical health: Moderation by respiratory sinus arrythmia reactivity7
Reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the Pregnancy and Weight Gain Attitude Scale7
‘I think from my experience, it’s a negative thing for most people’: Exploring the perspectives of young British women opposed to the calories on menus policy in the UK7
Cross-cultural measurement invariance of the fear of COVID-19 scale in three Portuguese-speaking countries7
Direct to psychology for sleep disorders: Innovating models of care in the hospital and health service7
Personality and social determinants of health predict adolescent comfort and honesty reporting sports-related concussion symptoms7
The body image experiences of breastfeeding mothers in the UK: A qualitative exploration7
Intercultural insights on the impact of different non-idealized models on men’s body image and advertising perceptions7
The association between family resilience and psychological well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: A three-level meta-analysis7
Examining behavioural intention towards organ donation in Hong Kong7
Personalized and adaptive physical activity-based social comparison opportunities for women with health risks: Insights from a real-time test of the identification/contrast model7
The long arm of childhood: The prolonged influence of adverse childhood experiences on depression during middle and old age in China7
Social dominance orientation and information seeking about the Mpox outbreak7
Financial distress and suicidal behaviour during COVID-19: Family identification attenuates the negative relationship between COVID-related financial distress and mental Ill-health7
Issues of identity, perceptions and isolation: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of women’s experience of Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome7
How shared versus unshared parental contribution to child risk influences guilt responses6
The factors involved in surgical decision-making in younger women diagnosed with breast cancer in Aotearoa New Zealand: A qualitative analysis6
Associations of dietary patterns and perceived stress with memory deficits in patients with heart failure6
The impact of syndemic burden, age, and sexual minority status on internalized HIV stigma among people living with HIV in South Florida6
Associations between perceived everyday discrimination and health among college students at a Hispanic-serving institution6
Developing and testing the effectiveness of a videoconferencing, Meaning-Centered Coping Program among Turkish women with breast cancer: A pilot randomized trial6
‘It’s like tumbleweeds everywhere’: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the lived experience of being diagnosed with and living with narcolepsy6
Assessing depressive symptoms and diabetes distress in Type 1 diabetic adults: A comparison of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) and multiple daily injections (MDI) users6
Motivation, accountability, and outcomes in a randomized controlled trial of internet weight-loss programs in primary care6
Multifactorial causal beliefs and colorectal cancer screening: A structural equation modeling investigation6
Depressive symptom clusters and biomarkers of monocyte activation, inflammation, and coagulation in people with HIV and depression6
The ‘medically unexplained symptoms’ syndrome concept and the cognitive-behavioural treatment model6
Scaling up research on discrimination and health: The abridged Explicit Discrimination Scale5
Spiritual issues, beliefs, needs, and resources in palliative healthcare providers: An Italian qualitative study5
A scoping review: Forced/coerced sterilization as a socio-cultural risk factor for sexually transmitted HIV for older Black women5
Altruistic help or taking advantage of the situation? Social representations of surrogate motherhood5
The plight of prestige: The subjective experiences of women managing chronic physical illnesses and their emotional well-being in the context of the prestige hierarchy5
Perspectives on weight change and antiretroviral therapy from people living with HIV in New York City: A qualitative study5
Words matter: The use of generic “you” in expressive writing in an oncology setting5
Examining healthcare professional delivery of health behaviour change interventions during a public health emergency: A multi-professional survey among NHS healthcare professionals5
Effect of breathlessness beliefs on quality of life in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Chain-mediating role of self-efficacy and self-management behaviors5
Improving myalgic encephalomyelitis population sampling: Applying an online respondent-driven method to address biases in G93.3 register data5
Psychological and socio-structural determinants of intentions to use drug checking services5
COVID-19 preventive behaviours in White British and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) people in the UK5
Vested in support: Applying vested interest theory to increase support for close others with depression5
Perceived stress and health outcomes among Chinese university students: The chain mediating role of repetitive negative thinking and trait forgiveness5
Psychological factors in diabetes-related foot complications: A cohort study5
Typology of reasons why a person kills in a war context: The case of rebel/nationalist army combatants in the Spanish Civil War5
The impact of COVID-19 changes and disruptions on generalized anxiety disorder among young adults living with HIV (YLHIV) in Uganda5
Psychological experiences of Druze women with breast cancer5
Promoting prosociality toward future generations in antibiotic intake5
Exploring the effect of social media use on loneliness among older adults: A meta-analysis5
Self-efficacy as a mediator between frailty and falls among community-dwelling older citizens5
Adherence versus striving to adhere to vegan, vegetarian, or pescatarian diets: Applying a goal-centered, self-regulatory framework4
Are health protective behaviors promoted by anticipated regret?4
Looking bad: Female patients drawing their representation of chemotherapy-induced alopecia4
Effectiveness of yoga and laughter yoga in improving psychological resilience of mothers with babies hospitalized in neonatal intensive care unit4
Longitudinal linkages between strength use and depressive symptoms in Chinese nurses: A two wave, cross-lagged study4
Body (dis)satisfaction and health screening behaviors: A systematic review of observational studies4
Examining sense of purpose and conscientiousness as unique correlates of health: A bifactor examination4
How does patient-centered communication work? Trend analysis of mediation through cancer worry and health self-efficacy, 2011–20204
A theory based examination of factors associated with male body hair removal4
Improving kidney care for people with severe mental health difficulties: A thematic analysis of personal and family members’ perspectives4
The experience of living with vitiligo in Nigeria: A participatory Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis4
Physical activity, posttraumatic stress, and gender: A longitudinal study of post-9/11 veterans4
The role of trust, vaccine information exposure, and Health Belief Model variables in COVID-19 vaccination intentions: Evidence from an HBCU sample4
‘It’s life threatening, it’s not life limiting but it’s life threatening’ – Dyadic framework analysis of adolescent and parent adjustment to a type 1 diabetes diagnosis4
Much more than a biological phenomenon: A qualitative study of women’s experiences of brain fog across their reproductive journey4
Men’s experiences of a personalised, appearance-based, facial-morphing, safer drinking intervention4
The impact of a personal cancer diagnosis on adolescent and young adult cancer survivors’ social connectedness: A qualitative analysis4
Translation, cultural adaptation and validation of the German Quality of Life in Epidermolysis Bullosa (QOLEB) questionnaire4
Describing the use of behavior change techniques among the most popular home workout channels on YouTube: A quantitative content analysis4
Putting the ‘teachable moment’ in context: A view from critical health psychology4
Intersectional discrimination and alcohol problems among transfeminine people of color: The moderating role of financial instability4
Beliefs about COVID-19 as a threat to values are related to preventive behaviors and fear of COVID-194
Corrigendum to “A qualitative investigation of reasoning behind decisions to decline participation in a research intervention: A study-within-a-trial”4
Navigating the food environment: Experiences of reduced calorie interventions to manage Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus4
A validation of the body compassion scale in females4
Utility of the Theory of Planned Behaviour for predicting parents’ intentions to vaccinate their children against COVID-194
Physical attributes of workout instructors and appearance-related messaging in a sample of home workout videos on YouTube: A content analysis4
The influence of life transitions on Danish adults’ physical activity beliefs and behaviour: A qualitative study4
Social support among women with infertility: Associations with psychiatric symptoms, disordered eating, and substance use4
The mediating role of vaccine hesitancy in the relations of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs and vaccination outcomes: Which dimensions matter?4
The heterogeneity of insomnia symptoms for emerging workers in the digital economy: Latent profile and network analysis3
Assessing LGBTQ+ stigma among healthcare professionals: An application of the health stigma and discrimination framework in a qualitative, community-based participatory research study3
Adherence to social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic in Italy: The role of autonomous motivation and defiance3
Improving older adults’ vaccination uptake: Are existing measures of vaccine hesitancy valid and reliable for older people?3
Association of explicit and implicit social support with psychological adjustment in Chinese women with breast cancer: An interpersonal explanation3
Integrating sleep care in psychological practice: A survey of Brazilian clinical psychologists and a global bibliometric analysis3
The effect of breast cancer awareness interventions on young women aged 18–50 years: A systematic review3
Evidence against risk as a motivating driver of COVID-19 preventive behaviors in the United States3
The role of behavioural immune system and belief in COVID-19 misinformation on COVID-19 protective behaviours in Indonesia3
Factors associated with parents’ hesitancy to vaccinate their children against COVID-19: The moderator role of parental anxiety3
Implicit theories of health, consideration of future consequences, and engagement in health protective behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic in China3
Prevalence and intervention strategies of health misinformation among older adults: A meta-analysis3
The impact of COVID-19 on physical activity and mental health: A mixed-methods approach3
Uncertain crisis time affects psychosocial dimensions in beta-thalassemia patients during Covid-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study3
The prevalence of feigning and concealment of Covid-19 infections in an international sample3
Investigating the link between sleep quality and belief in conspiracy theories3
Black (patients’) lives matter: Exploring the role of identity-safety cues in healthcare settings among Black Americans3
Sleep health and associated factors among undergraduates during the COVID-19 in China: A two-wave network analysis3
Psychometric and cross-cultural generalizability outcomes of the Chinese version of the Kids-Palatable Eating Motives Scale (K-PEMS-C)3
Does matching a personally tailored physical activity intervention to participants’ learning style improve intervention effectiveness and engagement?3
Associations between social participation and psychological distress among older adults with hypertension in rural China: The mediating role of social capital3
Associations of smart device apps with and without a perceived self-efficacy component in a physical activity context with BMI3
Contrasting compulsive behaviour: Computerized text analysis of compulsion narratives3
Experiences of disempowerment amongst endometriosis patients: Toward comprehensive care to address the psychosocial impact of chronic illness3
The effect of resilience on the relationship between perceived stress and change in alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic in Queensland, Australia3
Multiple sclerosis experiences of couples: Examination of patient and partner perspectives3
Internet addiction affects college students’ intuitive eating over physical activity: Evidence from multiple studies3
Resilience after combat: A prospective, longitudinal study of Marines and Navy Corpsmen3
Analysis of healthcare workers’ mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a three-wave longitudinal study3
Depression and life satisfaction after Kahramanmaraş earthquakes: The serial mediation roles of life meaning and coping with earthquake stress3
‘A boy actually said I looked like a fire victim’: Exploring the psychosocial impacts of psoriasis, eczema and acne amongst young women in the UK through thematic analysis3
“I’m an adult now”: Health risk behaviors and identifying as an adult3
HPV-related quality of life in diagnosed women: A longitudinal study3
Association between self-perceptions of aging, care deferrals, and change in health status among US adults aged ≥ 50 years during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study3
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