A healthy lifestyle can help to improve a person’s mental health, physical health, and overall wellbeing. It can also increase a person’s productivity and energy levels. Healthy habits include eating a balanced diet, drinking enough water, not smoking, and exercising regularly.
However, people’s lifestyles are not always healthy and many people struggle to stick to their goals and intentions. This can be due to work, family or other commitments that take up a lot of their time. In addition, there are many different lifestyles that people can adopt, which means that it can be difficult to know how to live a healthy life.
The word “lifestyle” is a combination of two words: “life” and “style”. The first meaning refers to the way a person lives, while the second meaning refers to their personal taste. Lifestyles are formed when a person’s values and beliefs shape their choices about how to spend their time and energy. For example, if someone believes that they should be happy, then they will try to live according to those beliefs. This can include activities like partying, traveling, and spending money on certain items.
People’s lifestyles are not only determined by their beliefs and values, but also by their environment. For example, if a person lives in a rich country, they will have a much more luxurious lifestyle than a person living in a poor country. People’s lifestyles can also be influenced by the culture and traditions that they come from.
Many different theories have been proposed to describe and explain lifestyles. Some of these theories are psychological while others are sociological. The psychological theories focus on the individual’s perception of their lifestyle while the sociological perspectives look at the relationship between the individual and society.
Theories that emphasise the internal dimension of lifestyle are represented by perspectives such as those of Adler, who sees a lifestyle as a mature and evolved organisation of the personality. This reflects the way in which individuals’ perceptions of their behaviour and the world around them develop during adulthood and result in a specific modus vivendi (way of living).
Sociological theories on lifestyle are represented by those of Georg Simmel, Max Weber, and Pierre Bourdieu. These theories examine the relationship between an individual and society, analysing the social structure within which they live, as well as the behavioural patterns that determine their action possibilities.
The main limitation of these theories is that they do not provide a clear description of how and why lifestyles form and change in a particular period. This is a crucial aspect for health psychology to be considered as a discipline, and it is therefore important to study the ways in which lifestyles are defined and analysed. A new approach to this issue is needed, and this paper aims to shed light on the concept of lifestyle from three perspectives: internal, external, and temporal.
