Journal telescopic statement

Health Psychology ® is the official scientific journal of the Society for Health Psychology (Division 38 of the American Psychological Association). Its mission is to accelerate the science and practice of evidence-based wellness psychology and behavioral medicine. It publishes peer-reviewed articles on psychological, biobehavioral, social, and environmental factors in physical health and medical affliction, and other bug in health psychology.

The periodical publishes a broad range of original research reports, including observational, experimental, mechanistic, epidemiological, and psychometric studies; treatment development studies; randomized controlled trials including both prevention and treatment studies; and broadcasting and implementation research.

It also publishes systematic reviews and meta-analyses, critical reviews of meaning problems in health psychology and behavioral medicine, methodological guidance and tutorials, and advances in research methods.

Health Psychology is open to research across the lifespan, studies of diverse populations in a broad variety of settings, and investigations of the reproducibility or generalizability of research on psychological and behavioral factors in physical wellness and illness. It publishes empirical work across preclinical, clinical, and public health domains, and across all phases of translational health enquiry.

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Submission Guidelines

Please follow the submission guidelines detailed below. Manuscripts that practice not accommodate to our Instructions to Authors may be returned without review.

Manuscript submission

Set manuscripts according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association using the 7th edition. Manuscripts may be copyedited for bias-free language (see Chapter 5 of the Publication Manual). APA Style and Grammar Guidelines for the viith edition are available.

Submit Manuscript

Contact our Peer Review Coordinator Lindsay MacMurray, if you accept questions well-nigh submitting a manuscript or if yous do not receive confirmation of your submission within iii business days.

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Submission Process

Our Editorial Manager system will enquire yous for the following items during the submission procedure.

Commodity Type: Bespeak whether the manuscript is a regular article , a brief report , or a submission for a special consequence or serial . Some special issues and special serial submissions require permission or are by invitation but; please obtain permission if needed earlier choosing one of the special article types.

Files: You will be asked to upload the following files:

  • Cover letter. The letter should briefly describe the newspaper; explain how information technology fits within the periodical's scope; and confirm that it has not been published, is non under review elsewhere, and does not contain data that are under review or that have been published elsewhere. It should also ostend that all authors accept reviewed the final version of the paper that is existence submitted.
  • Manuscript. Run across the Manuscript section (below) for instructions.
  • Tables and Figures: Identify tables and figures at the stop of the manuscript, after the references, with one table or effigy per page. Include page numbers on the table and figure pages.
  • Supplemental Materials: You may place a variety of materials in an online-only supplement, such as 1) methodological details, tables, and figures that are non essential for inclusion in the manuscript itself but that raise the report; 2) computer code needed to reproduce the major analyses; 3) nonproprietary questionnaires, survey forms, other data collection instruments, scripts, or experimental stimuli; and 4) qualitative response material. There is no specific limit on the length of the supplemental certificate, and it does not count against the manuscript'south page limit. Refer readers to the supplement at appropriate points in the text of the manuscript. Meet Supplementing Your Commodity with Online Material for more than information.
  • Reporting Checklist: If you accept completed a reporting checklist (eastward.grand., Consort, PRISMA, or STROBE), submit information technology as a Reporting Checklist file.

Apply Microsoft Word (.medico) or LaTeX (.tex) to create documents for submission. If using LaTeX, submit a zip file that includes a .pdf version of each .tex file.

Manuscripts should adhere to the guidelines provided in the 7thursday edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. APA Fashion guidance is bachelor online.

Classifications: Use this checklist to classify the manuscript's area(southward) of interest or specialization.

Suggested Reviewers: Enter the name, institution, e-mail address, and qualifications of at least three potential reviewers.

Questionnaire: The questionnaire asks nigh 1) serving equally a reviewer; two) funding agencies that supported the submitted work; iii) the larger study or projection, if any, on which the current study is based; and 4) potential conflicts of interest.

If your study is based on data from a larger report or projection (e.thousand., an analysis based on a large epidemiological dataset or a secondary analysis of clinical trial data), use the questionnaire to explain the human relationship between the current paper and the larger study or project, and briefly explicate the current study's novel or value-added scientific contribution relative to other papers from the same dataset. Listing any papers that were based on the larger study or dataset and that have been published, are under review, or are in press, about which the editors and reviewers of the current paper should exist enlightened. Cite them in the manuscript equally well if readers should be aware of them.

Manuscripts

Length: Regular manufactures are express to 30 pages, meta-analyses to 35 pages, and brief reports to 12 pages. The page limit includes all parts of the manuscript, including the title page, abstract, text, references, tables, and figures. Employ a sans serif font such every bit 11-point Calibri or 11-signal Arial, or a serif font such as 12-point Times New Roman, and double-space the text. Authors may asking permission to exceed the page limit, merely the journal operates under a contractual page budget, and so overages are allowed simply when necessary. Please write succinctly and place nonessential materials in a supplement, not in the manuscript.

Title Page: The championship folio should adhere to APA Style and include an APA-style Author Note. The manuscript'south title should be no more than 12 words long, and it should non country an exclamation or conclusion. The title should include "a randomized controlled trial," "a meta-analysis," "a systematic review," or "systematic review and meta-analysis," if appropriate.

APA-Style Author Notes include the following data:

  • Paragraph 1 : Authors' ORCID iDs if available. Authors will be asked to place the contributions of all authors at submission using the Correspondent Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) . All authors should have reviewed and agreed to their private contribution(south) earlier submission. Authors may claim credit for more than 1 function, and the same part tin can be attributed to more than 1 writer.
  • Paragraph ii: Changes, if whatever, in author affiliations that occurred after the study ended.
  • Paragraph 3: Disclosures and acknowledgements, if any, including: a) Study preregistration information including registry proper name and record number, east.g., "Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier NCT999999." b) links to data, materials, and code. c) Fiscal support including funding agencies and grant numbers. d) Disclosure of any real or potentially perceived conflicts of interest including fiscal interests or affiliations that might be seen equally influencing the research. If there are no conflicts of interest, this should be clearly stated. due east) Acknowledgements of nonfinancial assistance such as staff or student contributions to the research.
  • Paragraph 4: Corresponding author's contact information, including an email address.

Abstruse: Empirical reports must include a structured abstruse with < 250 words and these headings:

  • Objective: Brief statement of the purpose or aims of the study.
  • Methods: Essential information almost the study blueprint, procedures, and measures.
  • Results: Master findings; include sample size and primary statistical results, if possible.
  • Conclusions: Main conclusions based on the chief findings.

Papers such as narrative reviews or invited commentaries for which a structured abstract would be inappropriate should include an unstructured manuscript with a maximum of 250 words.

Keywords: Listing upward to five keywords below the abstruse. Use National Library of Medicine medical subject heading ( MeSH ) vocabulary or APA psychological alphabetize terms .

Body of the Manuscript: Empirical reports should include:

  • a clear statement of the inquiry question, hypothesis, specific aims, or purpose of the study;
  • essential data virtually the methods even if a divide methods or protocol paper is cited;
  • descriptive statistics to narrate the sample, the sample size, and the measures;
  • a CONSORT-manner participant menses diagram, if appropriate;
  • disclosure of the report'due south limitations; and
  • conclusions that are consistent with the findings.

The methods department of reports of research involving human participants must provide information nearly institutional review board or ideals lath approval, including the name(s) of the institution(due south) that canonical the study, or an caption of why the study was exempt from approval and oversight. Informed consent and assent procedures should also be briefly described.

Reports should explain the significance or novel contribution of original enquiry without overstating the study's translational, clinical, or public health significance.

If the purpose of the piece of work is to endeavour to replicate or extend previous studies, this should be disclosed, and small-scale innovations or superficially novel features should not be overstated.
The statistical methods should adhere to the APA Task Force on Statistical Inference guidelines. Statistical results, tables, and figures should adhere to APA Style guidelines.

Areas of interest

Translational enquiry

Health Psychology publishes work beyond the entire spectrum of translational research in health psychology and behavioral medicine, including observational, experimental, and interventional studies. Programmatic research is especially welcome. If the written report is integral to an ongoing, well-focused program of research, its relationship to previous and planned work should be described.

When applicative, authors are encouraged to position their report within an established framework or model for translational inquiry, intervention development or optimization, or implementation scientific discipline, such as the ORBIT Model (Czajkowski et al., Health Psychology 2015;34(10):971-982).

Observational and experimental inquiry

Health Psychology publishes many kinds of observational, epidemiological, and experimental studies. However, studies with the following characteristics are seldom accepted:

  • studies with little or no direct relevance to concrete health or medical illness
  • studies with limited ecological validity or generalizability
  • mediation analyses based on cross-sectional data
  • small-scale qualitative studies

Early-phase intervention research

Wellness psychology is an practical science that draws upon many areas of basic research. Translational and intervention optimization models such as ORBIT, the NIH Stage Model, or the Multiphase Optimization Strategy (Nearly) encourage u.s.a. to ground our wellness-related behavioral intervention research in bones social and behavioral science research, the science of behavior change, and in other areas of psychosocial, clinical, and public health inquiry. These models also promote a programmatic approach to intervention evolution, optimization, testing, and implementation.

The journal welcomes basic enquiry that is conducted to inform health-related behavioral intervention development or other clinical or public health applications of wellness psychology. We also welcome early-phase inquiry on health-related behavioral interventions, such as intervention evolution, optimization, and dose-finding studies; proof-of-concept evaluations; and feasibility studies. However, these reports must see sure criteria to be considered for publication.

  • The report should be embedded in a translational or intervention optimization model and in programmatic line of research whose long-term goal concerns maintaining concrete wellness, preventing medical disease, or improving meaning medical or public health outcomes.
  • The report should not claim that the report is definitive or that it has significant exercise or policy implications; it should instead point to specific next steps in the line of enquiry.
  • Information technology should not include severely underpowered statistical tests of efficacy hypotheses; meet Freedland KE. Health Psychology 2020;39(10):851-862 for further information.

Modest, early-stage studies must compete confronting larger and more definitive studies in the journal's priority ranking system. This is particularly challenging for small or preliminary studies that are conducted primarily to guide the investigator's own work and that may be of limited interest to other researchers. Thus, early-phase research reports should highlight aspects of the study that would be informative for other investigators.

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs)

The journal welcomes reports based on randomized controlled trials of health-related behavioral interventions. However, secondary or exploratory analyses of RCT event data should not exist submitted until the primary findings of the trial have been published. Manuscripts that do not include effect information, such as analyses that are limited to baseline information, may be submitted before the primary findings take been published.

Meta-analyses and Meta-regression analyses

Meta-analyses and meta-regression analyses of research in health psychology and behavioral medicine are welcome. They must provide pregnant added value if other meta-analyses of the same expanse of research have already been published.

Psychometric studies

Research on questionnaires or other assessment instruments should be based on modernistic psychometric methods. A convincing case should be made for a new, modified, or translated mensurate, and it should be relevant to a large segment of the journal's readership.

Methodological problems and advances

Health Psychology welcomes reviews and tutorials on the following methodological topics:

  • Advanced statistical procedures that are applicable to multiple areas of health psychology or behavioral medicine research only that are underutilized.
  • Standard statistical methods that are widely misunderstood, misused, or neglected in wellness psychology and behavioral medicine research.
  • Nonstatistical methodological problems that impact the quality or impact of health psychology and behavioral medicine research.

Authors should 1) present advanced methods in a articulate and attainable manner for readers who are not statistical experts; 2) provide guidance almost the assumptions and utilization of statistical procedures, examples, and computer code; and 3) provide links to sample datasets if applicable.

Authors are advised to email a notice of intent and an abstract to our Senior Statistical Editor Shelley Blozis, PhD, prior to submitting a methodological bug and advances manuscript.

Letters to the editor

Selected messages to the editor are published online, on the journal'south website. Submit letters to the editor by e-mail to Lindsay MacMurray with a cover letter of the alphabet disclosing whatsoever potential conflicts of interest. If the letter is accustomed, the target commodity's authors may be invited to respond.

Transparency and Openness Promotion

As of July 1, 2021, work submitted to Health Psychology should attach to the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines. For empirical reports, include a brief Transparency and Openness subsection at the start of the Methods section. The purpose is to gather all required disclosures and links in one location to make information technology easier for readers, reviewers, and editors to find this information. This is an example of a brief transparency and openness statement for an RCT:

In this article, we study how we determined our sample size, all information exclusions, all manipulations, and all measures that were included in the written report, and we follow the Consort guideline for reporting parallel group randomized trials. All information, analysis lawmaking, and inquiry materials are available at [stable link to repository]. Data were analyzed using R version iv.0.0 (R Core Squad, 2020). The trial was pre-registered on clinicaltrials.gov (NCT99999999).

Additional information pertaining to specific Elevation standards may be inserted where needed in the manuscript or in an online supplement.

Empirical reports submitted to Wellness Psychology are required to meet certain TOP standards. Adherence to other TOP standards is optional but the manuscript must disembalm the level of adherence. The list beneath summarizes these requirements; see the Superlative guidelines for details.

  • Citation Standards: Level 2, Required—Cite data, inquiry materials, and code or software developed by other teams, companies, or organizations.
  • Data Transparency: Level 1, Disembalm—In both the Author Note and the Transparency and Openness subsection in the Method section, state whether the data are bachelor, and if then, where to admission them. The preferred method is to provide a link to a trusted repository. Trusted discipline-specific, institutional, and open up research repositories are adequate. See the OpenAIRE Guide for information and re3data.org help with finding repositories.
  • Analytic Methods (Code) Transparency: Level 2, Required—Provide the figurer code needed to reproduce the major analyses in a supplement or via a link to a trusted repository in both the Writer Note and the Transparency and Openness subsection in the Method section. Explain exceptions in the Statistical Analysis section and in the writer notation.
  • Research Materials Transparency: Level two, Required—Provide key nonproprietary materials such as questionnaires or survey forms in a supplement or via a link to a trusted repository in both the Author Note and the Transparency and Openness subsection in the Method section. Provide citations for proprietary materials. Explicate exceptions in the Method section and in the author annotation.
  • Reporting Standards; Design and Analysis Transparency: Level 2, Required—Attach to relevant Equator Network reporting guidelines, such as CONSORT for randomized trials or PRISMA for systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Submit a completed reporting guideline checklist equally a Document for Reviewers and include a participant flow diagram in the manuscript. Adhere to the APA Periodical Article Reporting Standards (JARS) for items that are non addressed in the Equator Network guidelines.
  • Preregistration of Studies: Level 2, Required—State whether the written report was preregistered in an established registry, and if then, provide the link or data needed to admission the record. Randomized controlled trials must exist pre­registered in clinicaltrials.gov or another established registry. Reports of RCTs that are unregistered or that were registered retrospectively may be rejected without peer review.
    • Written report preregistration is defined every bit creation of fourth dimension stamped, read-only documentation of study design and, if applicable, hypotheses, before the participants are enrolled.
    • Access to a masked version of the preregistered study should exist available at submission via stable link or supplemental material.
    • Written report blueprint includes items such every bit experimental conditions, operationaliza­tion of variables, sampling plans, etc. For studies other than RCTs, a protocol or methods paper may exist cited in lieu of written report preregistration if information technology was published prior to the enrollment of study participants.
  • Preregistration of Analysis Plans: Level 2, Required—State whether the statistical assay plan was preregistered in a trusted repository or established registry such as clinicaltrials.gov, and if so, provide the link or information needed to access information technology. Documentation of the analysis programme must be time stamped, accessible, and read-only.
    • The analysis program may include information nigh planned analytic strategies, specific planned models, statistical decision rules, assumption checks, etc. Information technology may likewise identify analyses that are meant to be confirmatory tests of a priori hypotheses. The goal is to clearly differentiate between preplanned vs. post hoc (and peradventure information-dependent) analyses.
    • A priori assay plans are defined as ones that are preregistered before the information are nerveless.Blinded ex mail service analyses are defined as ones that were non preregistered but that were planned before the relevant data were seen.Post hoc analyses are defined as ones that are conducted subsequently the analyst or investigator has seen the data.
    • Access to a masked version of the preregistered analysis program should be bachelor at submission via stable link or supplemental material.
  • Replication: Level 1, Disclose—The journal encourages submission of replication studies.

Peer review policy

All manuscripts submitted to Health Psychology undergo an initial editorial evaluation which may upshot in rejection without external peer review.

Manuscripts that are sent out for external peer review receive single-masked reviews. This means that the reviewers are anonymous, but the authors are not.

The manuscript'due south championship folio should include the proper noun and affiliation of every writer. Identifying data should non be masked on the title folio, in the Abstruse or in body of the manuscript, or in citations or references. Masked manuscripts may be returned to the authors without review.

Technical specifications

Tables and figures

Tables should adhere to APA Style. Use Word's Insert Table function to create tables, and do not insert tabs or extra spaces to align columns equally this will create issues when the tabular array is typeset.

Figures should attach to APA Style. The minimum line weight for line art is 0.5. For information about graphic file types, acceptable resolutions, fonts, sizing, and other specifications, see the general guidelines.

Authors may publish figures online in color without the costs associated with print publication of color figures. The same caption will announced on both the online (color) and print (black and white) versions. To ensure that the figure tin be understood in both formats, authors should use line styles, symbols, etc. that can be differentiated in blackness and white. Authors may also provide alternative wording for the color vs. black and white versions (e.g., "the red (nighttime greyness) bars represent….")

If it is essential to include color figures in the print edition of the journal, the charges are:

  • $900 for one figure
  • $600 in addition for the second figure
  • $450 for each additional figure

Equations and computer lawmaking

Apply Times or Symbol font or Microsoft's Equation Editor for equations or formulas.

If possible, provide executable source code in an online-merely supplement, non in the manuscript itself. If information technology is essential to include code in the manuscript, submit a separate file with the code exactly as you want it to appear. Use eight-point Courier New font and do non add whatsoever extra indents, line spaces, or line breaks. Segments >40 characters volition be printed as images; shorter snippets of code will exist typeset in Courier New and run with the rest of the text.

References

List references in alphabetical society. Each listed reference should be cited in text, and each text citation should exist listed in the References department.

Examples of basic reference formats:

Periodical commodity

McCauley, South. Thou., & Christiansen, M. H. (2019). Language learning as language apply: A cantankerous-linguistic model of child language development. Psychological Review, 126(one), 1–51. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000126

Authored volume

Brownish, 50. S. (2018). Feminist therapy (2nd ed.). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000092-000

Chapter in an edited book

Balsam, Chiliad. F., Martell, C. R., Jones. K. P., & Safren, S. A. (2019). Affirmative cognitive behavior therapy with sexual and gender minority people. In G. Y. Iwamasa & P. A. Hays (Eds.), Culturally responsive cerebral behavior therapy: Exercise and supervision (2nd ed., pp. 287–314). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/x.1037/0000119-012

Ethical Principles

Information technology is a violation of APA Ethical Principles to publish "every bit original information, data that have been previously published" (Standard 8.xiii).

APA Ethical Principles also state that "later on inquiry results are published, psychologists practice not withhold the data on which their conclusions are based from other competent professionals who seek to verify the substantive claims through reanalysis and who intend to use such information only for that purpose, provided that the confidentiality of the participants can be protected and unless legal rights apropos proprietary data foreclose their release" (Standard 8.14).

APA expects authors to make their data available if asked during the editorial procedure and for at least 5 years after the engagement of publication.

If the manuscript is accepted, the corresponding author is required to sign and submit a Certification of Compliance with APA Ethical Principles (PDF, 26KB).

Come across the APA Ethical Principles and Code of Conduct for further guidance.

Publication Policies and Forms

APA policy prohibits authors from submitting the same manuscript for concurrent consideration by ii or more publications.

Run across APA'south Internet Posting Guidelines for information about posting copies of manuscripts prior to publication in Health Psychology.

APA requires all authors of accepted manuscripts to complete a form that lists any possible conflicts of interest in the acquit and reporting of enquiry, such as financial interests in a test or process, or funding by pharmaceutical companies for drug enquiry.

  • Download Disclosure of Interests Class (PDF, 38KB)

Authors of accustomed manuscripts are required to transfer the copyright to APA.

  • Publication Rights (Copyright Transfer) Grade (PDF, 83KB) for manuscripts that are not funded by the Wellcome Trust or the Research Councils United kingdom.
  • Wellcome Trust or Research Councils Britain Publication Rights Grade (PDF, 34KB) for manuscripts that are funded by the Wellcome Trust or the Research Councils Britain.

All necessary permissions to reproduce in print and electronic class whatsoever copyrighted work, including test materials, photographs, and other graphic images (including those used as stimuli in experiments) must exist provided for accustomed papers.  On advice of counsel, APA may reject to publish whatsoever image whose copyright status is unknown.

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The APA Journals Publishing Resource Middle provides further guidance for authors and reviewers.

Editorial Lath

Editor in chief

Kenneth E. Freedland, PhD
Washington Academy School of Medicine in St. Louis, United states of america

Senior associate editors

Matthew M. Burg, PhD
Yale School of Medicine, Usa

David B. Sarwer, PhD
Temple Academy Higher of Public Health, Us

Statistical editor

Shelley Blozis, PhD
University of California, Davis, United States

Acquaintance editors

Mary Amanda Dew, PhD
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Medical Middle and NIMH Eye for Late Life Depression Prevention and Treatment, United States

Sarah Feldstein Ewing, PhD
University of Rhode Island, United States

Carolyn Y. Fang, PhD
Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, U.s.

Trevor A. Hart, PhD
Ryerson University, Canada

Peter G. Kaufmann, PhD
Villanova University, United States

Becky Marquez, PhD
University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, Us

Eli Puterman, PhD
University of British Columbia, Canada

Consulting editors

Kristen G. Anderson, PhD
Reed College, The states

Kristin J. Baronial, PhD
Rutgers University, Camden, The states

Simon L. Bacon, PhD
Concordia University, Canada

Austin Due south. Baldwin, PhD
Southern Methodist University, Us

Robert A. Bednarczyk, PhD
Emory University, United States

Cynthia A. Berg, PhD
Academy of Utah, United States

James A. Blumenthal, PhD
Knuckles Academy Medical Heart, The states

Beth C. Bock, PhD
Alpert Medical School at Brown University, The states

Tim Bogg, PhD
Wayne State University, United States

Belinda Borrelli, PhD
Boston University, U.s.a.

Jos A. Bosch, PhD
University of Amsterdam, The netherlands

Julienne East. Bower, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Susan Chocolate-brown, PhD
University of California Davis, The states

Andrew One thousand. Busch, PhD, LP
University of Minnesota, United States

Linda D. Cameron, PhD
Academy of California, Merced, United States

Linda East. Carlson, PhD
University of Calgary School of Medicine and Tom Baker Cancer Center, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Robert M. Carney, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Usa

Laurie Chassin, PhD
Arizona Land University, Us

Edith Chen, PhD
Northwestern University, United states of america

Alan J. Christensen, PhD
Eastward Carolina University, United States

Lisa M. Christian, PhD
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United states of america

Mark Conner, PhD
University of Leeds, Uk

Rosalie Corona, PhD
Virginia Republic University, United States

Jenny M. Cundiff, PhD
Academy of Alabama, United States

Rodney Rex Dishman, PhD
University of Georgia, United states

Frank Doyle, PhD
Imperial Higher of Surgeons in Republic of ireland, Ireland

Chris Dunkel Schetter, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Donald Due east. Edmonson, PhD, MPH
Columbia University, The states

Nicole Ennis, PhD
Florida Country University Higher of Medicine, U.s.

Shawna L. Ehlers, PhD, LP
Mayo Dispensary, Rochester, MN, United States

Leonard H. Epstein, PhD
University at Buffalo, United States

Richard Fielding, PhD
The Academy of Hong Kong, Prc

Marian 50. Fitzgibbon, PhD
University of Illinois at Chicago, The states

Stephanie L. Fitzpatrick, PhD
Kaiser Permanente Center for Wellness Enquiry, United States

Meg Gerrard, PhD
University of Connecticut, United States

Peter J. Gianaros, PhD
University of Pittsburgh, United States

Frederick X. Gibbons, PhD
Academy of Connecticut, U.s.

Joseph A. Greer, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical Schoolhouse, United states of america

Brooks B. Gump, PhD, MPH
Syracuse Academy, United States

Peter A. Hall, PhD
University of Waterloo, Canada

Martica H. Hall, PhD
Academy of Pittsburgh, United States

Michael A. Harris, PhD
Oregon Health & Science Academy, The states

Vicki Sue Helgeson, PhD
Carnegie Mellon University, Usa

Michael Hoerger, PhD, MSCR
Tulane Cancer Center, United States

David M. Huebner, PhD
George Washington University, Us

Paul Jacobsen, PhD
National Cancer Found, Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Robert D. Kerns, PhD
Yale University, United States

Michaela Kiernan, PhD
Stanford University Schoolhouse of Medicine, United States

David Southward. Krantz, PhD
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, United States

Kevin T. Larkin, PhD, ABPP
W Virginia University, United States

Tricia 1000. Leahey, PhD
University of Connecticut, United states of america

Tené T. Lewis, PhD
Emory University, United States

Qian Lu, PhD
Academy of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, U.s.

Marker A. Lumley, PhD
Wayne Land University, United States

Susan K. Lutgendorf, PhD
University of Iowa, U.s.a.

Evan Mayo-Wilson, DPhil
Indiana University Schoolhouse of Public Health – Bloomington, U.s.a.

Kevin D. McCaul, PhD
Northward Dakota Country University, United states

Lance McCracken, PhD
Uppsala Academy, Sweden

Susan Michie, DPhil
University College London, United Kingdom

Paul J. Mills, PhD
Academy of California, San Diego, United States

Sylvie Naar, PhD
Florida State University Higher of Medicine, United States

Justin G. Nash, PhD
University of Connecticut, United States

George Dennis Papandonatos, PhD
Brownish University, U.s.a.

Aric A. Prather, PhD
Academy of California San Francisco, The states

Kenneth Perkins, PhD
University of Pittsburgh, United states of america

Keith J. Petrie, PhD, FRSNZ
University of Auckland, New Zealand

Tracey A. Revenson, PhD
Hunter College & Graduate Center, City University of New York, United states

DeJuran Richardson, PhD
Lake Forest College and Rush University Medical Center, U.s.a.

Alexander J. Rothman, PhD
University of Minnesota, United States

John M. Ruiz, PhD
University of Arizona, United States

Thomas Rutledge, PhD
University of California, San Diego, U.s.

Steven A. Safren, PhD, ABPP
University of Miami, United States

Jeffrey F. Scherrer, PhD
Saint Louis University School of Medicine, The states

Samuel F. Sears, PhD
E Carolina University, United states

Suzanne C. Segerstrom, PhD, MPH
University of Kentucky, United states

William G. Shadel, PhD
RAND Corporation, U.s.a.

Jonathan A. Shaffer, PhD
University of Colorado at Denver, United states

Paschal Sheeran, PhD
Academy of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

Jason T. Siegel, PhD
Claremont Graduate University, United States

Roxane C. Silver, PhD
University of California Irvine, Us

Kim Grand. Smolderen, PhD, MSc
Yale School of Medicine, Usa

Jesse C. Stewart, PhD
Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, United states of america

Rebecca C. Thurston, PhD
Academy of Pittsburgh, United States

Lara North. Traeger, PhD
Massachusetts Full general Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Us

Bert North. Uchino, PhD
University of Utah, U.s.a.

John A. Updegraff, PhD
Kent State University, United states

Corrine I. Voils, PhD
William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Infirmary & University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, U.s.

Matthew C. Whited, PhD
East Carolina University, U.s.

Dawn K. Wilson, PhD
Academy of S Carolina, United states

Richard A. Winett, PhD
Virginia Tech, United States

Betina Yanez, PhD
Northwestern University, Feinberg Schoolhouse of Medicine, United States

Tamika C. B. Zapolski, PhD
Indiana Academy–Purdue Academy Indianapolis, Us

Editorial office manager

Jessica Fifty. Winker
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Us

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Special Issues

  • From Ideas to Efficacy in Health Psychology

    Special issue of APA'south Health Psychology, Vol. 40, No. 12, December 2021. This special issue presents novel research that advances translational behavioral science, focusing primarily on the early on phases of behavioral translation that are not also recognized every bit after-phase translational scientific discipline.

  • The Science of Behavior Change

    Special issue of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 39, No. 9, September 2020. This special upshot showcases how investigators working in different areas of wellness behavior modify are utilizing early phase studies to advance intervention development.

  • Multimorbidity in Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine Research

    Special issue of the APA periodical Health Psychology, Vol. 38, No. 9, September 2019. Topics include relevance, measurement, mechanisms, and interventions for multimorbidity.

  • PROMIS® Methods and Applications in Wellness Psychology and Behavioral Medicine Research

    Special issue of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 38, No. 5, May 2019. The issue features outcomes research and applications of universal health-related quality of life measures produced under the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information Organisation initiative.

  • Implicit Processes in Wellness Psychology

    Special effect of the APA journal Wellness Psychology, Vol. 35, No. 8, August 2016. Includes manufactures about tobacco utilise, eating beliefs, physical activeness, booze consumption, condom use, and the impact of implicit prejudice on physical and mental health.

  • Disparities in Cardiovascular Health

    Special upshot of the APA periodical Health Psychology, Vol. 35, No. 4, April 2016. The papers offer windows into cut-border themes, methodologies, challenges, and time to come directions in understanding psychosocial factors and sociocultural sequelae as they relate to cardiovascular health disparities.

  • eHealth/mHealth

    Special issue of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 34, No. Due south, Dec 2015. The upshot includes 11 papers that accost the need for more rigorous methodology, valid assessment, innovative interventions, and increased admission to bear witness-based programs and interventions.

  • Qualitative Research in Wellness Psychology

    Special effect of the APA journal Wellness Psychology, Vol. 34, No. 4, April 2015. The result showcases a range of qualitative enquiry projects conducted by wellness psychologists with a view to promoting greater uptake and development of qualitative research methods in the field.

  • The Role of Social Networks in Adult Wellness

    Special issue of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 33, No. vi, June 2014. The studies used diverse measures to quantify social relationships, ranging from network size or composition and social integration to availability of a confidante and quality of social interactions.

  • Health Psychology Meets Behavioral Economic science

    Special issue of the APA periodical Wellness Psychology, Vol. 32, No. 9, September 2013. The upshot was designed to concenter both conceptual and empirical articles, to present a wide spectrum of thinking and methods, and to illustrate how behavioral economics might accost today's pressing health problems.

  • Theoretical Innovations in Social and Personality Psychology and Implications for Health

    Special issue of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 32, No. 5, May 2013. Articles highlight major areas of innovation in contempo social/personality psychology that hold promise for synergistic integration with wellness psychology and related fields in the pursuit of acceptable wellness promotion, health care, and population health.

  • Men'south Health

    Special consequence of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 32, No. 1, January 2013. The first section focuses on public wellness bug, including physical exercise, booze consumption, and help-seeking. The 2nd section covers illness-related phenomena, including male-specific cancers, sports-induced inability, and male sterilization.

  • Tobacco and Wellness Psychology

    Special issue of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 27, No. iii (Suppl.), May 2008. Articles talk over psychosocial processes underlying smoking; modern science and tobacco research; initiation and maintenance of smoking cessation; depressive symptoms and cigarette smoking; functional beliefs almost smoking and quitting activity; processing of anti-smoking messages; and upshot of regulatory focus on performance in smoking and weight loss interventions.

  • Mediation and Moderation

    Special issue of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Supplement), March 2008. Includes manufactures near mediation and moderation of psychological factors in patients with diabetes; chronic pain; cancer caregivers; and high blood pressure, too as adolescent health; concrete activity; and sexual gamble reduction in women.

  • Nutrition, Do, and Diabetes Control

    Special issue of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 27, No. 1, Suppl, Jan 2008. Information technology was developed to highlight some of the fundamental issues from a biological, cerebral, social, and environmental perspective for understanding the impact of intervention furnishings on behavior change processes and ultimate health.

  • Basic and Applied Decision Making in Cancer Control

    Special issue of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 24, No. 4, July 2005. Includes articles about decision making strategies; linking decision making research and cancer prevention and handling; communication models in shared decision making; regret; coping; and advanced directives and terminate-of-life decisions.

Open Science

Transparency and Openness Promotion

As of July 1, 2021, work submitted to Health Psychology should attach to the Transparency and Openness Promotion (Peak) Guidelines. For empirical reports, include a cursory Transparency and Openness subsection at the beginning of the Methods section. The purpose is to get together all required disclosures and links in one location to arrive easier for readers, reviewers, and editors to find this data. This is an example of a brief transparency and openness statement for an RCT:

In this article, we study how we determined our sample size, all data exclusions, all manipulations, and all measures that were included in the study, and we follow the CONSORT guideline for reporting parallel grouping randomized trials. All information, analysis lawmaking, and research materials are bachelor at [stable link to repository]. Data were analyzed using R version four.0.0 (R Cadre Team, 2020). The trial was pre-registered on clinicaltrials.gov (NCT99999999).

Additional data pertaining to specific Elevation standards may be inserted where needed in the manuscript or in an online supplement.

Empirical reports submitted to Health Psychology are required to meet certain TOP standards. Adherence to other Height standards is optional but the manuscript must disclose the level of adherence. The list below summarizes these requirements; come across the TOP guidelines for details.

  • Citation Standards: Level 2, Required—Cite information, research materials, and lawmaking or software developed by other teams, companies, or organizations.
  • Data Transparency: Level 1, Disembalm—In both the Author Annotation and the Transparency and Openness subsection in the Method section, state whether the data are available, and if then, where to access them. The preferred method is to provide a link to a trusted repository. Trusted discipline-specific, institutional, and open up research repositories are acceptable. See the OpenAIRE Guide for information and re3data.org help with finding repositories.
  • Analytic Methods (Code) Transparency: Level 2, Required—Provide the computer code needed to reproduce the major analyses in a supplement or via a link to a trusted repository in both the Writer Note and the Transparency and Openness subsection in the Method section. Explain exceptions in the Statistical Analysis section and in the writer note.
  • Enquiry Materials Transparency: Level two, Required—Provide key nonproprietary materials such as questionnaires or survey forms in a supplement or via a link to a trusted repository in both the Author Note and the Transparency and Openness subsection in the Method section. Provide citations for proprietary materials. Explain exceptions in the Method section and in the writer note.
  • Reporting Standards; Design and Analysis Transparency: Level ii, Required—Adhere to relevant Equator Network reporting guidelines, such every bit CONSORT for randomized trials or PRISMA for systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Submit a completed reporting guideline checklist as a Document for Reviewers and include a participant menses diagram in the manuscript. Adhere to the APA Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS) for items that are non addressed in the Equator Network guidelines.
  • Preregistration of Studies: Level 2, Required—State whether the study was preregistered in an established registry, and if so, provide the link or information needed to access the tape. Randomized controlled trials must be pre­registered in clinicaltrials.gov or another established registry. Reports of RCTs that are unregistered or that were registered retrospectively may be rejected without peer review.
    • Study preregistration is defined as cosmos of time stamped, read-but documentation of study design and, if applicative, hypotheses, before the participants are enrolled.
    • Access to a masked version of the preregistered study should be bachelor at submission via stable link or supplemental textile.
    • Study design includes items such every bit experimental conditions, operationaliza­tion of variables, sampling plans, etc. For studies other than RCTs, a protocol or methods paper may exist cited in lieu of study preregistration if it was published prior to the enrollment of study participants.
  • Preregistration of Analysis Plans: Level two, Required—Country whether the statistical assay plan was preregistered in a trusted repository or established registry such as clinicaltrials.gov, and if and so, provide the link or information needed to admission it. Documentation of the analysis program must exist time stamped, accessible, and read-only.
    • The assay program may include information about planned analytic strategies, specific planned models, statistical decision rules, assumption checks, etc. Information technology may as well identify analyses that are meant to be confirmatory tests of a priori hypotheses. The goal is to conspicuously differentiate between preplanned vs. post hoc (and perhaps data-dependent) analyses.
    • A priori analysis plans are defined as ones that are preregistered earlier the data are collected.Blinded ex post analyses are defined as ones that were not preregistered but that were planned before the relevant data were seen.Mail hoc analyses are defined as ones that are conducted after the analyst or investigator has seen the information.
    • Access to a masked version of the preregistered analysis plan should exist available at submission via stable link or supplemental material.
  • Replication: Level one, Disclose—The journal encourages submission of replication studies.

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