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Development of a Measure of the Motives Underlying the Selection of Food: the Food Choice Questionnaire
- A. Steptoe, T. Pollard, J. Wardle
- Psychology, Medicine
- Appetite
- 1 December 1995
A number of factors are thought to influence people's dietary choices, including health, cost, convenience and taste, but there are no measures that address health-related and non-health-related… Expand
Cortisol awakening response and psychosocial factors: A systematic review and meta-analysis
- Y. Chida, A. Steptoe
- Psychology, Medicine
- Biological Psychology
- 1 March 2009
The magnitude of the cortisol awakening response, a relatively new indicator of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis activation, has been related to a number of psychosocial factors. But… Expand
Cohort profile: the English longitudinal study of ageing.
- A. Steptoe, E. Breeze, J. Banks, J. Nazroo
- Medicine
- International journal of epidemiology
- 1 December 2013
The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) is a panel study of a representative cohort of men and women living in England aged ≥50 years. It was designed as a sister study to the Health and… Expand
The effects of acute psychological stress on circulating inflammatory factors in humans: A review and meta-analysis
- A. Steptoe, M. Hamer, Y. Chida
- Medicine
- Brain, Behavior, and Immunity
- 1 October 2007
Stress influences circulating inflammatory markers, and these effects may mediate the influence of psychosocial factors on cardiovascular risk and other conditions such as psoriasis and rheumatoid… Expand
Positive Psychological Well-Being and Mortality: A Quantitative Review of Prospective Observational Studies
- Y. Chida, A. Steptoe
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychosomatic medicine
- 25 August 2008
Objective: To review systematically prospective, observational, cohort studies of the association between positive well-being and mortality using meta-analytic methods. Recent years have witnessed… Expand
Subjective wellbeing, health, and ageing
- A. Steptoe, A. Deaton, A. Stone
- Psychology, Medicine
- The Lancet
- 14 February 2015
Subjective wellbeing and health are closely linked to age. Three aspects of subjective wellbeing can be distinguished-evaluative wellbeing (or life satisfaction), hedonic wellbeing (feelings of… Expand
Greater Cardiovascular Responses to Laboratory Mental Stress Are Associated With Poor Subsequent Cardiovascular Risk Status: A Meta-Analysis of Prospective Evidence
- Y. Chida, A. Steptoe
- Medicine
- Hypertension
- 1 April 2010
An increasing number of studies has tested whether greater cardiovascular responses to acute mental stress predict future cardiovascular disease, but results have been variable. This review aimed… Expand
Gender differences in food choice: The contribution of health beliefs and dieting
- J. Wardle, A. Haase, A. Steptoe, Maream Nillapun, Kiriboon Jonwutiwes, France Bellisie
- Medicine
- Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of…
- 1 April 2004
Background: Gender differences in health behaviors have been reported in many studies but causal mechanisms have been neglected.Purpose and Methods: This study examines 4 food choice behaviors in a… Expand
Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses
- A. Okbay, B. Baselmans, +184 authors D. Cesarini
- Biology, Medicine
- Nature Genetics
- 18 April 2016
Very few genetic variants have been associated with depression and neuroticism, likely because of limitations on sample size in previous studies. Subjective well-being, a phenotype that is… Expand
Positive affect and health-related neuroendocrine, cardiovascular, and inflammatory processes.
- A. Steptoe, J. Wardle, M. Marmot
- Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
- 3 May 2005
Negative affective states such as depression are associated with premature mortality and increased risk of coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and disability. It has been suggested that positive… Expand