Periodical scope 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 advance the science and practice of evidence-based health psychology and behavioral medicine. Information technology publishes peer-reviewed articles on psychological, biobehavioral, social, and environmental factors in physical health and medical illness, and other issues in health psychology.

The periodical publishes a wide 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 dissemination and implementation research.

It likewise publishes systematic reviews and meta-analyses, critical reviews of significant issues in health psychology and behavioral medicine, methodological guidance and tutorials, and advances in enquiry methods.

Health Psychology is open to research across the lifespan, studies of diverse populations in a wide diverseness of settings, and investigations of the reproducibility or generalizability of research on psychological and behavioral factors in concrete health and affliction. It publishes empirical piece of work across preclinical, clinical, and public health domains, and across all phases of translational health research.

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Submission Guidelines

Please follow the submission guidelines detailed beneath. Manuscripts that exercise not conform to our Instructions to Authors may exist returned without review.

Manuscript submission

Set up manuscripts co-ordinate 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 7th edition are available.

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Contact our Peer Review Coordinator Lindsay MacMurray, if you have questions almost submitting a manuscript or if yous do not receive confirmation of your submission within three business days.

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Submission Process

Our Editorial Manager organization volition inquire yous for the following items during the submission process.

Commodity Type: Indicate whether the manuscript is a regular commodity , a cursory report , or a submission for a special issue or series . Some special issues and special serial submissions crave permission or are by invitation only; delight obtain permission if needed before choosing 1 of the special commodity types.

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

  • Cover letter. The letter of the alphabet should briefly draw the paper; explicate how it fits within the journal's telescopic; and confirm that it has not been published, is not under review elsewhere, and does non contain data that are under review or that take been published elsewhere. It should also ostend that all authors accept reviewed the terminal version of the paper that is being submitted.
  • Manuscript. Meet the Manuscript section (beneath) for instructions.
  • Tables and Figures: Identify tables and figures at the end of the manuscript, afterwards the references, with ane table or figure per page. Include page numbers on the table and figure pages.
  • Supplemental Materials: Y'all may place a variety of materials in an online-but supplement, such as 1) methodological details, tables, and figures that are not essential for inclusion in the manuscript itself simply that raise the report; 2) estimator lawmaking needed to reproduce the major analyses; 3) nonproprietary questionnaires, survey forms, other data drove instruments, scripts, or experimental stimuli; and iv) qualitative response material. At that place is no specific limit on the length of the supplemental document, and it does not count against the manuscript's page limit. Refer readers to the supplement at advisable points in the text of the manuscript. See Supplementing Your Article with Online Material for more information.
  • Reporting Checklist: If yous have completed a reporting checklist (e.g., CONSORT, PRISMA, or STROBE), submit it as a Reporting Checklist file.

Use Microsoft Word (.doctor) 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 7th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Clan. APA Style guidance is bachelor online.

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

Suggested Reviewers: Enter the name, institution, email accost, and qualifications of at least 3 potential reviewers.

Questionnaire: The questionnaire asks about 1) serving equally a reviewer; 2) funding agencies that supported the submitted work; 3) the larger study or project, if whatsoever, on which the electric current written report is based; and 4) potential conflicts of interest.

If your report is based on information from a larger report or project (e.g., an assay based on a large epidemiological dataset or a secondary analysis of clinical trial data), employ the questionnaire to explicate the relationship between the current newspaper and the larger report or projection, and briefly explicate the current study's novel or value-added scientific contribution relative to other papers from the same dataset. List whatsoever papers that were based on the larger study or dataset and that have been published, are under review, or are in press, near which the editors and reviewers of the electric current paper should be aware. 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 folio, abstruse, text, references, tables, and figures. Use a sans serif font such as eleven-point Calibri or eleven-betoken Arial, or a serif font such equally 12-point Times New Roman, and double-space the text. Authors may request permission to exceed the page limit, but the journal operates nether a contractual page upkeep, 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 page should adhere to APA Mode and include an APA-style Author Notation. The manuscript's title should be no more 12 words long, and it should not land an assertion or conclusion. The championship should include "a randomized controlled trial," "a meta-analysis," "a systematic review," or "systematic review and meta-analysis," if appropriate.

APA-Manner Author Notes include the following information:

  • Paragraph 1 : Authors' ORCID iDs if available. Authors volition be asked to identify the contributions of all authors at submission using the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) . All authors should have reviewed and agreed to their individual contribution(s) before submission. Authors may claim credit for more than than ane role, and the same role can be attributed to more than 1 author.
  • Paragraph 2: Changes, if whatsoever, in author affiliations that occurred after the study ended.
  • Paragraph three: Disclosures and acknowledgements, if any, including: a) Study preregistration information including registry name and tape number, e.chiliad., "Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier NCT999999." b) links to data, materials, and code. c) Financial 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 as influencing the research. If there are no conflicts of interest, this should be clearly stated. east) Acknowledgements of nonfinancial assistance such as staff or pupil contributions to the research.
  • Paragraph iv: Respective author's contact information, including an email address.

Abstract: 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 data nigh the study design, procedures, and measures.
  • Results: Main findings; include sample size and primary statistical results, if possible.
  • Conclusions: Main conclusions based on the primary 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: List up to five keywords below the abstruse. Use National Library of Medicine medical subject heading ( MeSH ) vocabulary or APA psychological index terms .

Body of the Manuscript: Empirical reports should include:

  • a articulate statement of the enquiry question, hypothesis, specific aims, or purpose of the report;
  • essential data near the methods even if a carve up methods or protocol paper is cited;
  • descriptive statistics to narrate the sample, the sample size, and the measures;
  • a CONSORT-style participant flow diagram, if appropriate;
  • disclosure of the written report's limitations; and
  • conclusions that are consistent with the findings.

The methods section of reports of enquiry involving human participants must provide information near institutional review lath or ethics board approval, including the name(southward) of the institution(south) that approved the report, or an caption of why the study was exempt from approval and oversight. Informed consent and assent procedures should also exist briefly described.

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

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

Areas of interest

Translational research

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

When applicable, authors are encouraged to position their study inside an established framework or model for translational research, intervention evolution or optimization, or implementation science, such as the ORBIT Model (Czajkowski et al., Wellness Psychology 2015;34(10):971-982).

Observational and experimental research

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

  • studies with lilliputian or no straight relevance to physical wellness or medical illness
  • studies with limited ecological validity or generalizability
  • arbitration analyses based on cross-sectional data
  • pocket-sized qualitative studies

Early-phase intervention research

Health psychology is an applied scientific discipline 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 (Near) encourage us to ground our wellness-related behavioral intervention enquiry in bones social and behavioral science research, the scientific discipline of behavior modify, and in other areas of psychosocial, clinical, and public health inquiry. These models also promote a programmatic approach to intervention development, optimization, testing, and implementation.

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

  • The study should exist embedded in a translational or intervention optimization model and in programmatic line of research whose long-term goal concerns maintaining physical wellness, preventing medical illness, or improving pregnant medical or public wellness outcomes.
  • The report should non claim that the report is definitive or that it has meaning practice or policy implications; it should instead point to specific next steps in the line of research.
  • It should not include severely underpowered statistical tests of efficacy hypotheses; see Freedland KE. Wellness Psychology 2020;39(10):851-862 for further data.

Small, early-phase studies must compete against 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 exist of limited involvement 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 result data should not be submitted until the primary findings of the trial have been published. Manuscripts that practice not include outcome information, such as analyses that are limited to baseline data, may be submitted before the chief findings have 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 significant added value if other meta-analyses of the aforementioned expanse of research have already been published.

Psychometric studies

Enquiry on questionnaires or other cess instruments should be based on modernistic psychometric methods. A disarming case should exist made for a new, modified, or translated measure, and information technology should be relevant to a large segment of the journal'south readership.

Methodological issues and advances

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

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

Authors should 1) present advanced methods in a clear and accessible manner for readers who are not statistical experts; two) provide guidance about the assumptions and utilization of statistical procedures, examples, and figurer lawmaking; and 3) provide links to sample datasets if applicative.

Authors are advised to electronic mail a discover of intent and an abstruse to our Senior Statistical Editor Shelley Blozis, PhD, prior to submitting a methodological bug and advances manuscript.

Letters to the editor

Selected letters to the editor are published online, on the periodical's website. Submit letters to the editor by email to Lindsay MacMurray with a comprehend letter disclosing any potential conflicts of interest. If the alphabetic character is accepted, the target article's authors may be invited to respond.

Transparency and Openness Promotion

As of July 1, 2021, work submitted to Wellness Psychology should adhere to the Transparency and Openness Promotion (Height) Guidelines. For empirical reports, include a brief Transparency and Openness subsection at the beginning 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 data. This is an case of a brief transparency and openness statement for an RCT:

In this article, nosotros written report how we adamant 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 group randomized trials. All data, analysis code, and research materials are available at [stable link to repository]. Data were analyzed using R version iv.0.0 (R Cadre Team, 2020). The trial was pre-registered on clinicaltrials.gov (NCT99999999).

Additional information pertaining to specific TOP 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 Meridian standards. Adherence to other Tiptop standards is optional but the manuscript must disclose the level of adherence. The list beneath summarizes these requirements; see the TOP guidelines for details.

  • Citation Standards: Level 2, Required—Cite information, enquiry materials, and lawmaking or software adult 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 information are available, and if so, where to access them. The preferred method is to provide a link to a trusted repository. Trusted subject-specific, institutional, and open up research repositories are acceptable. Come across the OpenAIRE Guide for information and re3data.org help with finding repositories.
  • Analytic Methods (Code) Transparency: Level 2, Required—Provide the reckoner lawmaking needed to reproduce the major analyses in a supplement or via a link to a trusted repository in both the Author Annotation and the Transparency and Openness subsection in the Method section. Explicate exceptions in the Statistical Analysis section and in the author note.
  • Research Materials Transparency: Level 2, 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 author note.
  • Reporting Standards; Design and Assay Transparency: Level two, Required—Adhere to relevant Equator Network reporting guidelines, such every bit Espoused for randomized trials or PRISMA for systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Submit a completed reporting guideline checklist every bit a Certificate for Reviewers and include a participant flow diagram in the manuscript. Adhere to the APA Journal Commodity 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 and 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 exist rejected without peer review.
    • Study preregistration is defined as cosmos of time 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 be available at submission via stable link or supplemental material.
    • Written report design includes items such every bit experimental conditions, operationaliza­tion of variables, sampling plans, etc. For studies other than RCTs, a protocol or methods newspaper may be cited in lieu of study preregistration if it 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 data needed to admission it. Documentation of the analysis plan must be time stamped, accessible, and read-but.
    • The analysis plan may include information virtually planned analytic strategies, specific planned models, statistical decision rules, supposition checks, etc. It may likewise identify analyses that are meant to be confirmatory tests of a priori hypotheses. The goal is to conspicuously differentiate between preplanned vs. mail hoc (and perhaps information-dependent) analyses.
    • A priori analysis plans are defined as ones that are preregistered before the data are collected.Blinded ex mail service analyses are defined as ones that were not preregistered only that were planned before the relevant data were seen.Post hoc analyses are defined as ones that are conducted after the analyst or investigator has seen the data.
    • Admission to a masked version of the preregistered analysis plan should be available at submission via stable link or supplemental material.
  • Replication: Level 1, Disembalm—The journal encourages submission of replication studies.

Peer review policy

All manuscripts submitted to Health Psychology undergo an initial editorial evaluation which may result 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, simply the authors are not.

The manuscript's title folio should include the name and affiliation of every author. Identifying information should non exist masked on the championship folio, in the Abstract 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 office to create tables, and do not insert tabs or extra spaces to align columns as this will create issues when the table is typeset.

Figures should adhere to APA Style. The minimum line weight for line art is 0.v. For information nearly 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 aforementioned caption will announced on both the online (color) and impress (blackness and white) versions. To ensure that the figure tin can exist understood in both formats, authors should use line styles, symbols, etc. that can be differentiated in black and white. Authors may likewise provide culling wording for the colour vs. blackness and white versions (e.thousand., "the red (dark gray) bars correspond….")

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 effigy
  • $450 for each boosted figure

Equations and computer code

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

If possible, provide executable source code in an online-only supplement, not in the manuscript itself. If information technology is essential to include code in the manuscript, submit a separate file with the lawmaking exactly every bit you lot want it to appear. Use 8-point Courier New font and practise not add together any extra indents, line spaces, or line breaks. Segments >40 characters will be printed as images; shorter snippets of code will be typeset in Courier New and run with the rest of the text.

References

Listing references in alphabetical order. Each listed reference should be cited in text, and each text commendation should be listed in the References section.

Examples of basic reference formats:

Periodical article

McCauley, S. M., & Christiansen, M. H. (2019). Linguistic communication learning as language use: A cantankerous-linguistic model of child language development. Psychological Review, 126(1), ane–51. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000126

Authored book

Brown, Fifty. Southward. (2018). Feminist therapy (2d ed.). American Psychological Clan. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000092-000

Chapter in an edited book

Balsam, M. F., Martell, C. R., Jones. K. P., & Safren, S. A. (2019). Affirmative cerebral behavior therapy with sexual and gender minority people. In Yard. Y. Iwamasa & P. A. Hays (Eds.), Culturally responsive cognitive behavior therapy: Practice and supervision (2nd ed., pp. 287–314). American Psychological Clan. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000119-012

Upstanding Principles

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

APA Ethical Principles also state that "after research results are published, psychologists practise non withhold the data on which their conclusions are based from other competent professionals who seek to verify the noun claims through reanalysis and who intend to use such data simply for that purpose, provided that the confidentiality of the participants can be protected and unless legal rights concerning proprietary data preclude their release" (Standard 8.14).

APA expects authors to brand their data available if asked during the editorial process and for at least 5 years afterwards the date of publication.

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

See the APA Ethical Principles and Code of Conduct for farther guidance.

Publication Policies and Forms

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

See APA's Cyberspace Posting Guidelines for information about posting copies of manuscripts prior to publication in Health Psychology.

APA requires all authors of accustomed manuscripts to complete a form that lists whatever possible conflicts of interest in the bear and reporting of inquiry, such as fiscal interests in a test or procedure, or funding by pharmaceutical companies for drug enquiry.

  • Download Disclosure of Interests Form (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 of great britain and northern ireland.
  • Wellcome Trust or Research Councils United kingdom Publication Rights Form (PDF, 34KB) for manuscripts that are funded by the Wellcome Trust or the Inquiry Councils UK.

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

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

Editorial Board

Editor in chief

Kenneth Eastward. Freedland, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, United States

Senior associate editors

Matthew One thousand. Burg, PhD
Yale School of Medicine, United States

David B. Sarwer, PhD
Temple University College of Public Health, U.s.

Statistical editor

Shelley Blozis, PhD
Academy of California, Davis, Usa

Associate editors

Mary Amanda Dew, PhD
University of Pittsburgh Schoolhouse of Medicine and Medical Centre and NIMH Center for Late Life Depression Prevention and Handling, United states of america

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

Carolyn Y. Fang, PhD
Play a trick on Hunt Cancer Center, Philadelphia, United States

Trevor A. Hart, PhD
Ryerson University, Canada

Peter 1000. Kaufmann, PhD
Villanova University, U.s.a.

Becky Marquez, PhD
University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, U.s.

Eli Puterman, PhD
University of British Columbia, Canada

Consulting editors

Kristen G. Anderson, PhD
Reed College, United States

Kristin J. August, PhD
Rutgers Academy, Camden, U.s.a.

Simon L. Bacon, PhD
Concordia Academy, Canada

Austin Southward. Baldwin, PhD
Southern Methodist Academy, United States

Robert A. Bednarczyk, PhD
Emory University, United States

Cynthia A. Berg, PhD
Academy of Utah, Usa

James A. Blumenthal, PhD
Duke University Medical Center, United States

Beth C. Bock, PhD
Alpert Medical School at Brownish University, United States

Tim Bogg, PhD
Wayne State University, Usa

Belinda Borrelli, PhD
Boston Academy, Usa

Jos A. Bosch, PhD
University of Amsterdam, Kingdom of the netherlands

Julienne E. Bower, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles, The states

Susan Chocolate-brown, PhD
University of California Davis, United states of america

Andrew Chiliad. Busch, PhD, LP
University of Minnesota, Us

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

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

Robert Thou. Carney, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, United States

Laurie Chassin, PhD
Arizona State University, U.s.a.

Edith Chen, PhD
Northwestern University, United States

Alan J. Christensen, PhD
East Carolina University, United states

Lisa Yard. Christian, PhD
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United states

Mark Conner, PhD
University of Leeds, United kingdom

Rosalie Corona, PhD
Virginia Commonwealth Academy, The states

Jenny One thousand. Cundiff, PhD
University of Alabama, Us

Rodney King Dishman, PhD
University of Georgia, United States

Frank Doyle, PhD
Royal Higher of Surgeons in Ireland, Ireland

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

Donald Due east. Edmonson, PhD, MPH
Columbia Academy, United States

Nicole Ennis, PhD
Florida State Academy College of Medicine, The states

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

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

Richard Fielding, PhD
The University of Hong Kong, China

Marian Fifty. Fitzgibbon, PhD
University of Illinois at Chicago, United states

Stephanie L. Fitzpatrick, PhD
Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, The states

Meg Gerrard, PhD
University of Connecticut, United States

Peter J. Gianaros, PhD
University of Pittsburgh, The states

Frederick X. Gibbons, PhD
University of Connecticut, United States

Joseph A. Greer, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical Schoolhouse, United States

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

Peter A. Hall, PhD
Academy of Waterloo, Canada

Martica H. Hall, PhD
Academy of Pittsburgh, The states

Michael A. Harris, PhD
Oregon Wellness & Scientific discipline University, Usa

Vicki Sue Helgeson, PhD
Carnegie Mellon University, United States

Michael Hoerger, PhD, MSCR
Tulane Cancer Heart, United states of america

David Chiliad. Huebner, PhD
George Washington University, U.s.a.

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

Robert D. Kerns, PhD
Yale Academy, United States

Michaela Kiernan, PhD
Stanford University Schoolhouse of Medicine, The states

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

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

Tricia M. Leahey, PhD
University of Connecticut, United States

Tené T. Lewis, PhD
Emory University, U.s.

Qian Lu, PhD
University of Texas Dr. Anderson Cancer Middle, U.s.

Marker A. Lumley, PhD
Wayne State Academy, United States

Susan K. Lutgendorf, PhD
University of Iowa, United States

Evan Mayo-Wilson, DPhil
Indiana University School of Public Wellness – Bloomington, United States

Kevin D. McCaul, PhD
North Dakota State University, Us

Lance McCracken, PhD
Uppsala University, Sweden

Susan Michie, DPhil
University College London, U.k.

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

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

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

George Dennis Papandonatos, PhD
Dark-brown Academy, United States

Aric A. Prather, PhD
Academy of California San Francisco, United States

Kenneth Perkins, PhD
University of Pittsburgh, United States

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

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

DeJuran Richardson, PhD
Lake Forest College and Rush University Medical Center, United States

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

John M. Ruiz, PhD
University of Arizona, Usa

Thomas Rutledge, PhD
University of California, San Diego, United States

Steven A. Safren, PhD, ABPP
Academy of Miami, The states

Jeffrey F. Scherrer, PhD
Saint Louis Academy Schoolhouse of Medicine, United states of america

Samuel F. Sears, PhD
East Carolina Academy, United States

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

William M. Shadel, PhD
RAND Corporation, United states

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

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

Jason T. Siegel, PhD
Claremont Graduate University, U.s.a.

Roxane C. Silver, PhD
University of California Irvine, United States

Kim Chiliad. Smolderen, PhD, MSc
Yale School of Medicine, United states of america

Jesse C. Stewart, PhD
Indiana University–Purdue Academy Indianapolis, United States

Rebecca C. Thurston, PhD
University of Pittsburgh, The states

Lara N. Traeger, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical Schoolhouse, United States

Bert North. Uchino, PhD
Academy of Utah, The states

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

Corrine I. Voils, PhD
William Due south. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital & Academy of Wisconsin Schoolhouse of Medicine and Public Wellness, United States

Matthew C. Whited, PhD
Eastward Carolina University, United States

Dawn Chiliad. Wilson, PhD
University of Due south Carolina, Usa

Richard A. Winett, PhD
Virginia Tech, U.s.

Betina Yanez, PhD
Northwestern University, Feinberg Schoolhouse of Medicine, U.s.

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

Editorial office director

Jessica L. Winker
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, The states

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Special Issues

  • From Ideas to Efficacy in Wellness Psychology

    Special issue of APA'southward Health Psychology, Vol. forty, No. 12, December 2021. This special issue presents novel research that advances translational behavioral science, focusing primarily on the early phases of behavioral translation that are not as well recognized as subsequently-stage translational science.

  • The Science of Beliefs Change

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

  • Multimorbidity in Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine Research

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

  • Implicit Processes in Wellness Psychology

    Special effect of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 35, No. 8, August 2016. Includes articles about tobacco use, eating beliefs, physical activity, booze consumption, condom utilize, and the impact of implicit prejudice on physical and mental wellness.

  • Disparities in Cardiovascular Health

    Special outcome of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 35, No. iv, April 2016. The papers offer windows into cutting-edge themes, methodologies, challenges, and hereafter directions in understanding psychosocial factors and sociocultural sequelae as they chronicle to cardiovascular health disparities.

  • eHealth/mHealth

    Special event of the APA journal Wellness Psychology, Vol. 34, No. Southward, December 2015. The upshot includes eleven papers that address the demand for more rigorous methodology, valid cess, innovative interventions, and increased admission to prove-based programs and interventions.

  • Qualitative Research in Health Psychology

    Special issue of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 34, No. 4, April 2015. The issue showcases a range of qualitative research projects conducted past health psychologists with a view to promoting greater uptake and evolution of qualitative inquiry methods in the field.

  • The Role of Social Networks in Adult Health

    Special effect of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 33, No. 6, 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 Economics

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

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

    Special issue of the APA periodical Health Psychology, Vol. 32, No. five, May 2013. Manufactures highlight major areas of innovation in recent social/personality psychology that hold promise for synergistic integration with wellness psychology and related fields in the pursuit of adequate health promotion, wellness care, and population health.

  • Men's Health

    Special consequence of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 32, No. one, January 2013. The first section focuses on public health issues, including physical practise, alcohol consumption, and assist-seeking. The second section covers illness-related phenomena, including male-specific cancers, sports-induced inability, and male person sterilization.

  • Tobacco and Health Psychology

    Special consequence of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Suppl.), May 2008. Articles discuss psychosocial processes underlying smoking; modern science and tobacco inquiry; initiation and maintenance of smoking cessation; depressive symptoms and cigarette smoking; functional beliefs about 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 periodical Health Psychology, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Supplement), March 2008. Includes articles near arbitration and moderation of psychological factors in patients with diabetes; chronic pain; cancer caregivers; and high blood pressure, likewise equally boyish health; physical activeness; and sexual run a risk reduction in women.

  • Diet, Exercise, and Diabetes Control

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

  • Basic and Applied Determination Making in Cancer Control

    Special issue of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 24, No. iv, July 2005. Includes articles about determination making strategies; linking decision making research and cancer prevention and treatment; communication models in shared decision making; regret; coping; and avant-garde directives and finish-of-life decisions.

Open Science

Transparency and Openness Promotion

Every bit of July ane, 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 beginning of the Methods department. The purpose is to gather all required disclosures and links in one location to make it easier for readers, reviewers, and editors to observe this information. This is an example of a cursory 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 nosotros follow the Espoused guideline for reporting parallel grouping randomized trials. All data, assay code, and inquiry materials are available at [stable link to repository]. Data were analyzed using R version 4.0.0 (R Core Team, 2020). The trial was pre-registered on clinicaltrials.gov (NCT99999999).

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

Empirical reports submitted to Wellness Psychology are required to come across certain Meridian standards. Adherence to other Elevation standards is optional but the manuscript must disclose the level of adherence. The list below summarizes these requirements; run across the Superlative guidelines for details.

  • Citation Standards: Level 2, Required—Cite data, research materials, and code or software adult by other teams, companies, or organizations.
  • Data Transparency: Level i, Disclose—In both the Author Note and the Transparency and Openness subsection in the Method section, state whether the information are bachelor, and if so, where to admission them. The preferred method is to provide a link to a trusted repository. Trusted discipline-specific, institutional, and open inquiry repositories are acceptable. Run into the OpenAIRE Guide for data and re3data.org help with finding repositories.
  • Analytic Methods (Code) Transparency: Level 2, Required—Provide the estimator code needed to reproduce the major analyses in a supplement or via a link to a trusted repository in both the Author Annotation and the Transparency and Openness subsection in the Method department. Explain exceptions in the Statistical Assay department and in the writer note.
  • Research Materials Transparency: Level 2, Required—Provide key nonproprietary materials such every bit questionnaires or survey forms in a supplement or via a link to a trusted repository in both the Author Notation 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 note.
  • Reporting Standards; Design and Analysis Transparency: Level 2, Required—Adhere to relevant Equator Network reporting guidelines, such as Espoused for randomized trials or PRISMA for systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Submit a completed reporting guideline checklist every bit a Document for Reviewers and include a participant flow diagram in the manuscript. Adhere to the APA Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS) for items that are not addressed in the Equator Network guidelines.
  • Preregistration of Studies: Level ii, Required—Land whether the study was preregistered in an established registry, and if so, provide the link or information needed to access the record. 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 every bit creation of time stamped, read-only documentation of written report pattern and, if applicable, hypotheses, earlier the participants are enrolled.
    • Access to a masked version of the preregistered study should exist available at submission via stable link or supplemental material.
    • Study blueprint includes items such equally experimental weather condition, operationaliza­tion of variables, sampling plans, etc. For studies other than RCTs, a protocol or methods paper may exist cited in lieu of report preregistration if it was published prior to the enrollment of study participants.
  • Preregistration of Analysis Plans: Level 2, Required—State whether the statistical analysis program was preregistered in a trusted repository or established registry such as clinicaltrials.gov, and if then, provide the link or information needed to access it. Documentation of the analysis plan must be time stamped, attainable, and read-only.
    • The analysis programme may include information about planned analytic strategies, specific planned models, statistical conclusion rules, supposition checks, etc. It may also place analyses that are meant to be confirmatory tests of a priori hypotheses. The goal is to clearly 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.Post hoc analyses are defined as ones that are conducted after the analyst or investigator has seen the data.
    • Admission to a masked version of the preregistered assay program should be bachelor at submission via stable link or supplemental material.
  • Replication: Level one, Disclose—The journal encourages submission of replication studies.

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