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Psychological Well-Being, Decision-Making Style, and Individual Differences
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Psychological Well-Being, Decision-Making Style, and Individual Differences

A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Chronic Care".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 1716

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Costanza Scaffidi Abbate

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Scienze Psicologiche, Pedagogiche, dell’Esercizio Fisico e della Formazione, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Interests: judgment and decision making; choice overload; mental health; prosocial behavior
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Psychological well-being is a multi-faceted construct that positively affects cognitive functioning, health, and social relationships. Emerging research suggests that the predictors and contributing factors of psychological well-being include individual differences and decision-making skills. Certain personality traits and the ability to make optimal decisions directly impact our health, happiness, and well-being.

The main objective of this Special Issue is to analyze the relationship between psychological well-being, decision-making style, and individual differences.

This Special Issue seeks commentaries, original research, short reports, and reviews examining the effects of individual differences and decision-making skills on the level of psychological well-being experienced by individuals.

Dr. Costanza Scaffidi Abbate
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • psychological well-being
  • decision making
  • choice overload
  • adaptive strategies
  • individual differences

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Diet-Related Attitudes, Beliefs, and Well-Being in Adolescents with a Vegetarian Lifestyle
by Loredana Benedetto, Ilenia Sabato, Carola Costanza, Antonella Gagliano, Eva Germanò, Luigi Vetri, Michele Roccella, Lucia Parisi, Costanza Scaffidi Abbate and Massimo Ingrassia
Healthcare 2023, 11(21), 2885; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11212885 - 02 Nov 2023
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Vegetarianism can meet healthy, ethical, or ecological values (such as equality and protection of animals or the environment). At the same time, it can represent a response to the need for self-determination in adolescence. Furthermore, some studies show vegetarians have greater depressive risk [...] Read more.
Vegetarianism can meet healthy, ethical, or ecological values (such as equality and protection of animals or the environment). At the same time, it can represent a response to the need for self-determination in adolescence. Furthermore, some studies show vegetarians have greater depressive risk and a lower sense of body satisfaction. Considering the spread of non-meat diets in the Western world, researchers have investigated the benefits and risks to physical and psychological health. Despite this, few studies have been conducted on factors influencing adolescent’s vegetarian diet-related attitudes. Through self-administered loosely structured interviews, this research investigated factors potentially associated with vegetarian choices in adolescence. It checked (a) gender differences in vegetarian choices; (b) religious, familial, ethical, or health factors implied in vegetarian choices; and (c) indicators of well-being among young vegetarians. The findings suggest that for our sample, non-vegetarians have lower scores on health-related questions than others, while for vegetarian adolescents, the benefits of vegetarianism mainly depend on their ethical stances, beliefs, and values. Conversely, it is unrelated to factors such as the desire to lose weight, dissatisfaction about one’s body shape, or depressive feelings. Full article
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