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Sedentary Behaviour and Psychosocial Health Across the Life Course

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Psychosocial health is broadly defined to include psychological and social-psychological outcomes, interlinked with socioeconomic factors. Psychosocial health has been shown to be strongly associated with self-rated health, longevity, and heart disease. This chapter will summarise and explain the literature on sedentary behaviour and psychosocial health across the life course, with a focus on the psychosocial domains: bullying/victimisation, self-esteem, pro-social behaviour, and mental disorders (bipolar disorder, anxiety, stress). In summary, the majority of literature is in young people and has focused on concepts such as self-esteem and pro-social behaviour, suggesting an inverse relationship with sedentary behaviour. Limited research has focused on these concepts in adults. The existing literature should be interpreted in light of limited gold standard experimental data.

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  1. Centre for Health Performance and Wellbeing, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK

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  2. Institute Sport, Exercise and Health, Faculty Medical Sciences, University College London, London, UK

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  1. Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

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  3. Department of Public Health, Health Services Research and Health Technology Assessment, UMIT - University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Hall in Tirol, Tirol, Austria

    Daniela Schmid

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Smith, L., Hamer, M. (2023). Sedentary Behaviour and Psychosocial Health Across the Life Course. In: Leitzmann, M.F., Jochem, C., Schmid, D. (eds) Sedentary Behaviour Epidemiology. Springer Series on Epidemiology and Public Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41881-5_12

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