European Journal of Health Psychology

Call for authors📢
EJHP warmly welcomes new authors to submit their original work, reviews, meta-analysis or conceptual paper on theory and practice of psychological approaches to health, disease, and illness.

For more information on submitting your work, check out the link in our bio 😊!

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‼️Highlight #2
The 54th DGPs Congress will take place in Luxembourg in September. More details will be shared in a separate post soon, so be sure to follow😁!

PS: have you already checked out our final issue for 2025🤭? If not, check out the link below 👇

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🎇 Happy New Year 🎇 !
EJHP would like to wish you a wonderful start to 2026!

‼️Our top highlight: the 2026 Special Issue titled "Student Health and Well-Being in Higher Education" guest edited by Manja Vollmann, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Christel Salewski, FernUniversität in Hagen.

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Mindfulness moderates anticipated negative emotion when imagining potential IVF outcomes

🌸Fertility challenges can bring a lot of emotional stress⚡. Dillard et al. found that women who tend to be more mindful often experience less anxiety, depression, and fertility-related distress. To find out more check out the link below!

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💪Resilience is a vital aspect of high-risk occupations such as firefighting and police work. Our 2027 Special Issue titled 'Resilience in Police, Firefighting, and Emergency Services' aims to explore this deeper. More information on that below!
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🙂Healthy mind, healthy…student life📚?
If students were aware of the treatment options for mental illnesses, would they be more likely to seek help? Appel et al. aim to figure this out in an interesting cross-sectional study. More on that in the link below!
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#ejhp #healthpsychology #planetaryhealth #sustainability #authors #publish

Call for papers for the 2026 Special Issue titled Focus on Planetary Health and Sustainability: Health Psychology Matters

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What does health psychology have to do with planetary health and sustainability? Our 2026 Special Issue, 'Focus on Planetary Health and Sustainability: Health Psychology Matters', explores this vital question. More on how to submit your paper, here👇 econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/epdf/10....

Abstract of the study

So stressed about how stressed you are😵? The Trier Social Stress Test induces stress to see how the body reacts. Lohaus et al aim to find out whether the TSST accurately mirrors the reported stress in adolescents👦👧. Check out the link below to find out more!
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PS😁:Authors interested in publishing their articles📘 (original articles, brief reports, reviews, and conceptual papers) are welcome to submit their manuscripts! Link in bio🤭
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Hogrefe Flyer

📢The European Health Psychology Society will be holding their annual conference on the 26.08.25 – 29.08.25 in Groningen, Netherlands.
Follow them on Bluesky at @ehps2025.bsky.social‬
For more info, check out the link below👇
2025.ehps.net
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Information about the upcoming DGPs Health Psychology Conference.

‼️EJHP will be participating in this year's DGP's Health Psychology Conference Members' Meeting.
📅16.09.25
📍Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria
🕕06:30 pm CET.
Follow them at gesundpsy2025.bsky.social, more info in our bio!
PS: Interested in publishing with us? Link also in bio🤭
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Abstract

There’s always time for some little R&R – Rest and Relaxation! In their article, Steghaus and Poth find out how effective the Relaxation State Questionnaire is in assessing the short term impact of relaxation. Check out this article and more in our 2025 Issue 3!
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EJHP follows COPE guidelines to ensure ethical, transparent publishing. Our updated editorial policies cover AI use, authorship and peer review as well as respectful communication and diversity. Check out the link👇 for more information.
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Check out this ☝️ advance article - and more - on our website (link in bio).

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic was a challenging time for everyone. Fear of the pandemic's consequences led to psychological disorders like depression. Seiffer et al. examine whether and how physical activity is associated with mental health in the context of COVID-19.
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Descriptive statistics of measures of actual and perceived performance in this tactile attention task in the three experimental conditions

How well are you aware of your body? Turns out, it’s difficult to say. Yet Vig et al. showed that being prone to experience symptom distress comes with worse actual body attentiveness. To find out more check out the link below:
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Abstract of the article

To vaccinate or not to vaccinate💉—that is the question. Despite strong evidence for vaccine effectiveness, skepticism remains. Giese et al. explore why people process #vaccine info selectively and how to reduce this bias to promote more positive vaccination attitudes.
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Are you a PhD candidate looking for the right journal to publish your research? EJHP welcomes submissions from early career researchers in health psychology. Learn more about our focus and submission process via the link in our bio. We’re excited to support your next publication!
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Analytics and Intergration: Digital Data from different sources, definition of an algorithm Interventions Monitoring Diagnostics Side effects of digital tools Research needs

Do you know about EJHP’s Special Issues❓
Our collection of articles explores different perspectives on a central topic. Last year, our third issue was a Special Issue on Digitalization👨‍💻, examining its implications from a #health psychology angle.
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3️⃣ neue Junior-Professuren => 3️⃣neue Forschungsbereiche => 4️⃣ neue Labs.
Das Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie (ZPID) in Trier stellt seine Forschung neu auf!🔎

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While many people have heard of or know about dementia, even more are not familiar with dementia grief. This article in our second issue explains what dementia grief is and explores the benefits of a psychoeducational tool that can help care givers of dementia patients deal with this phenomenon.

Dementia Grief: Benefits of psychoeducation for care givers of dementia patients
Don't 'forget' to read more on Dementia Grief and other interesting topics in our second issue this year. Here's the link: econtent.hogrefe.com/toc/zgp/curr...
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Manuscript types
#EJHP publishes different kinds of manuscripts including original articles, reviews, conceptual articles, brief reports and commentaries. Check out our website (link in bio) to find out more about our manuscript requirements. We look forward to welcoming new authors!
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Our Team at EJHP
The editorial team led by our Editor in Chief Heike Spaderna,PhD,(@heikespaderna.bsky.social) strives to acquire and review quality research papers that significantly impact the field of health psychology. We here at EJHP look forward to connecting and working with new authors!

EJHP aims to promote theory and practice in the analysis of psychological approaches to health and disease and publish current, high quality research articles and reviews. The journal offers both open access publications via Hogrefe’s OpenMind Program and traditional publications without any fees.

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Who we are
Founded in '93 as the German Zeitschrift für Gesundheitspsychologie and transitioned into the European Journal of Health Psychology in 2018, EJHP has consistently been creating space for research in the field of health psychology by publishing quality innovative scientific articles.
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The names of our distinguished reviewers.

The European Journal of Health Psychology would like to recognise and appreciate the #DistinguishedReviewers in 2024. Thank you for dedicating your time and effort in providing quality reviews!
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European Journal of Health Psychology: Vol 32, No 1

'Unveiling the Multidimensional Nature of the Intention-Behaviour Gap'. Check out our latest issue (link👇) to find out more on this important article by Jekauc et al. This issue also covers three original articles, e.g. on doctor visits and ostracism👉 econtent.hogrefe.com/toc/ejh/32/1 #ejhp