Lifestyle refers to the interests, opinions, behaviors, and behavioral orientations of an individual, group, or culture.
Lifestyle is a combination of determining intangible or tangible factors.
A rural environment has different lifestyles compared to an urban one.
The nature of the neighborhood in which a person resides affects lifestyles available.
A lifestyle typically reflects an individual’s attitudes, way of life, values, or world view.
Lifestyle uses a sense of self and to create cultural symbols that resonate with personal identity.
Not all aspects of a lifestyle are voluntary.
The surrounding social and technical availabilities can constrain the lifestyle choices available.
The lines between personal identity and a particular lifestyle can become blurred.
Lifestyle can manifest through
consumption behavior, which individualizes the self with different products or services that signal different ways of life.
Lifestyle may include views on politics, religion, health, and intimacy, which play a role in shaping lifestyle.
People adopt patterns of consumption depending on a desire for distinction from social strata they identify as inferior and a desire for emulation of the ones identified as superior.
Lifestyle is a manifestation of social differentiation, even within the same social class, and in particular it shows the prestige which the individuals believe they enjoy or to which they aspire.
Lifestyles, involve processes of individualizations, identification, differentiation, and recognition, and operates vertically as well as horizontally.
Lifestyle is understood as a style of personality, with guiding values and principles which individuals develop in the first years of life that define a system of judgement which influences their actions throughout their lives.
Socio-cultural trends influence both the diffusion of various lifestyles within a population.
From lifestyle emerges different modalities of interaction between thought and action.
Lifestyles are likely to be transmitted across generations: things that parents do will be very likely transferred to their children through the learning process.
Adults may be drawn together by mutual interest that results in a lifestyle.
A favorable lifestyle is associated with a lower risk of dementia among individuals with high genetic risk.
Lifestyle can mitigate disease through behavior and social choice:
dementia, obesity, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and other disorders through changes in lifestyle.