Happiness and health behaviour in Iranian adolescent girls

Fararouei, Mohammad; Brown, Ian J.; Toori, Mehdi Akbartabar; Haghighi, R. Estakhrian; Jafari, Jasmine

doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2013.09.006

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“…Two studies find a linear relation between happiness and the number of portions fruits and vegetables per day, Lesani et al (2016) among students in Iran and Blanchflower et al (2013) among the general public in the UK, the latter study up to 7-8 portion a day. Another study observed an optimum at the lower level of 3-4 portions a day among female Iranian students (Fararouei et al 2013). These thee studies suggest that the optimum is at least beyond three portions a day.…”

Section: Is This Effect Of Healthy Eating On Happiness Similar For Evmentioning

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Will Healthy Eating Make You Happier? A Research Synthesis Using an Online Findings Archive

Veenhoven

2019

Applied Research Quality Life

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Healthy eating adds to health and thereby contributes to a longer life, but will it also add to a happier life? Some people do not like healthy food, and since we spend a considerable amount of our life eating, healthy eating could make their life less enjoyable. Is there such a trade-off between healthy eating and happiness? Or instead a trade-on, healthy eating adding to happiness? Or do the positive and negative effects balance? If there is an effect of healthy eating on happiness, is that effect similar for everybody? If not, what kind of people profit from healthy eating happiness wise and what kind of people do not? If healthy eating does add to happiness, does it add linearly or is there some optimum for healthy ingredients in one's diet? I considered the results published in 20 research reports on the relation between nutrition and happiness, which together yielded 47 findings. I reviewed these findings, using a new technique. The findings were entered in an online 'findings archive', the World Database of Happiness, each described in a standardized format on a separate 'findings page' with a unique internet address. In this paper, I use links to these finding pages and this allows us to summarize the main trends in the findings in a few tabular schemes. Together, the findings provide strong evidence of a causal effect of healthy eating on happiness. Surprisingly, this effect is not fully mediated by better health. This pattern seems to be universal, the available studies show only minor variations across people, times and places. More than three portions of fruits and vegetables per day goes with the most happiness, how many more for what kind of persons is not yet established.

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Section: Is This Effect Of Healthy Eating On Happiness Similar For Evmentioning

confidence: 86%

“…Blanchflower et al (2013);Fararouei et al (2013);Ford et al (2013); Huffman and Rizov (2016);Lesani et al (2016);Lengyel et al (2009) andKye and Park (2014) …”

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Will Healthy Eating Make You Happier? A Research Synthesis Using an Online Findings Archive

Veenhoven

2019

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“…One of the key strategies for improving happiness and reducing negative feeling is physical activity, which contributes to healthy ageing by preventing disability, morbidity and mortality in older adults (Christ & Ross , Fararouei et al . ). Despite its many benefits, physical activity participation declines progressively with age (United States Department of Health and Human Services ).…”

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“…The three main components of happiness that have been identified by researchers are frequent positive affection or joy, high level of life satisfaction over a period of time, and the absence of negative feelings such as depression and anxiety (Argyle & Crossland 1987). One of the key strategies for improving happiness and reducing negative feeling is physical activity, which contributes to healthy ageing by preventing disability, morbidity and mortality in older adults (Christ & Ross 2010, Fararouei et al 2013. Despite its many benefits, physical activity participation declines progressively with age (United States Department of Health and Human Services 2006).…”

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Effects of physical exercise programme on happiness among older people

Khazaee-Pool

Sadeghi

Majlessi

et al. 2014

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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This randomized-controlled trial investigated the effect of physical exercise programme (PEP) on happiness among older adults in Nowshahr, Iran. Results of this study on 120 male and female volunteers showed that an 8-week group physical exercise programme was significantly effective in older adults' happiness. Findings showed that physical exercise programme is so beneficial for increasing older adults' happiness. Physical activity is associated with well-being and happiness. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of an 8-week long physical exercise programme (PEP) on happiness among older adults in Nowshahr, Iran. This was a randomized control trial study. The participants consisted of a group of 120 male and female volunteers (mean ± SD age: 71 ± 5.86 years) in a convenience sampling among older adults in public parks in Nowshahr, Iran. We randomly allocated them into experimental (n = 60) and control (n = 60) groups. A validated instrument was used to measure well-being and happiness [Oxford Happiness Inventory (OHI)]. Respondents were asked to complete the OHI before and 2 months after implementing PEP. The 8-week PEP was implemented with the intervention group. The statistical analysis of the data was conducted using paired t-test, Fisher's exact test and χ(2). Before the intervention, there was no significant difference in the happiness mean score between the case and control groups; however, after implementing PEP, happiness significantly improved among the experimental group (P = 0.001) and did not improve within the control group (P = 0.79). It can be concluded that PEP had positive effects on happiness among older adults. Planning and implementing of physical activity is so important for older happiness.

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“…Another study found that happiness in Iranian adolescent girls was positively associated with health and a healthy lifestyle characterized by regular physical activity, family time and a smoke-free environment. 19 A large longitudinal study of USA young adults found that positive well-being during adolescence predicted better perceived health and fewer risky health behaviors during young adulthood. 20 Thus, it can be concluded that happiness plays a vital role in the promotion of good health.…”

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Family relations, sense of coherence, happiness and perceived health in retired Taiwanese: Analysis of a conceptual model

Chiang

Lee

2017

Geriatrics Gerontology Int

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Aim: A growing awareness of the rapidly increasing aged population in the world has led to growing attention to mental health in late life. Happiness has been emphasized as an important indicator of physical health and is predicted by a sense of coherence. However, the mechanism of influence of family relations on sense of coherence, happiness and perceived health is unknown. The present study aimed to analyze a conceptual model of the relationships among family relations, sense of coherence, happiness and perceived health in retired persons.Methods: A total of 142 retired participants were recruited from social service centers in Taipei, Taiwan. A structured questionnaire measuring the relationships among family relations, sense of coherence, happiness and perceived health was filled in by each respondent. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Results:The results showed that family relations is positively correlated with happiness, sense of coherence and perceived health. The results also showed that good family relations and a sense of coherence predict greater happiness. The results from structure equation modeling showed that the relationship between family relations and perceived health is completely mediated by happiness and a sense of coherence, but only the indirect effect of happiness is significant. The results also showed that family relations is partially mediated by the sense of coherence to happiness.

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Happiness and health behaviour in Iranian adolescent girls

Cited by 33 publications

References 47 publications

Will Healthy Eating Make You Happier? A Research Synthesis Using an Online Findings Archive

Will Healthy Eating Make You Happier? A Research Synthesis Using an Online Findings Archive

Effects of physical exercise programme on happiness among older people

Family relations, sense of coherence, happiness and perceived health in retired Taiwanese: Analysis of a conceptual model

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