Concept, Dimensions and Perception of Healthy Lifestyle

Abstract

The concept of healthy lifestyle is one of the most used in the promotion and health prevention. Its vagueness can generate problems of adjustment when it comes to understanding its ultimate objective and, above all, generate confusion in the investigations that use it to generate healthy behavior patterns. The dimensions on which the concept of healthy lifestyle is based are in themselves very disparate, intervening behaviors and actions executable, emotions, cognitions and perceptions, which makes its functionality much more complex and controversial when it comes to agreeing on its final content. Risk perception in lifestyle is intimately linked to the concept of perceived psychosocial vulnerability, because it is a concept that varies according to age and has a direct impact on psychosocial factors that affect lifestyle such as susceptibility, adaptation, coping and resilience. Our goal is to narrow and delimit the concept of healthy lifestyle from a theoretical perspective, so that a construct so widely used in psychology and health research can be addressed more objectively, with agreed parameters and taking into account its dimensions and the perception that people have of it.