Research on adjustment to chronic disease is critical in today's world, in which people are
living longer lives, but lives are increasingly likely to be characterized by one or more …

Diabetes mellitus is a common chronic disease all over the world. Self-management plays a
crucial role in diabetes management. The purpose of this systematic review was to …

Objectives: Health psychology has contributed significantly to understanding the link
between psychological factors and health and well-being, but it has not often incorporated …

Despite the frequent use of encouragement in everyday social life, encouragement remains
an understudied topic in positive psychology and counseling psychology. To address this …

People in close relationships influence the health behavior of their significant others. Recent
research has explored one form of influence—social control—and produced results that …

Objective: To investigate daily dietary adherence and diabetes-specific distress among older
adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) as a function of spouses' diet-related support …

Objectives: Spouses may be involved in their partner's diabetes management by providing
social support to affirm healthy behaviors and social control to modify health behaviors. Yet …

Background and aims: Knowledge of therapeutic lifestyle interventions is one of the most
important pillars of diabetes care; however, its incorporation in real-world settings is poor …

Understanding stress and coping is essential to health education, health promotion, and
disease prevention and management. Stressors are demands made by the environment that …

In this chapter, we review the literature on the connections between various facets of the
broad construct of subjective well-being (SWB) and physical health. We aim to highlight …