Health Lens dimension browser
Search all 1,100 Health Lens dimensions extracted from the verified presentation build. Each detail page keeps the current PsyProxy design system while carrying over definitions, bands, Excitement Index values, and compact evidence summaries.
Depressive Distress
Depressive Distress measures the presence and severity of depressed mood and related emotional, cognitive, and behavioral slowing in an expression. It encompasses sadness, self-blame, low motivation, reduced appetite or activity, fatigue, and negative self-evaluation.
Substance Use
Substance Use measures the extent to which an expression reflects consumption of alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs, including frequency, quantity, and difficulty regulating use. It encompasses both general references to using substances and more sustained or consequential patterns of drinking or drug use.
Physical Functioning
Physical Functioning measures the degree of bodily capability for mobility, self-care, and everyday task performance. It encompasses walking, climbing, lifting, transferring, and handling routine activities with or without difficulty or assistance.
Physical Violence Exposure
Physical Violence Exposure measures the extent to which an expression reflects direct experience of, witnessing of, or close exposure to physically aggressive, assaultive, or injurious acts. It encompasses interpersonal attack, abuse, violent injury, and other frightening events involving bodily harm or threat of harm.
Life Satisfaction
Life Satisfaction measures a person's positive evaluation of their life, circumstances, and self. It encompasses felt contentment, happiness with daily living, and a sense that life is going well overall.
Behavioral Dysregulation
Behavioral Dysregulation measures difficulties with emotional and behavioral control as expressed through tantrums, irritability, clinginess, poor concentration, trouble following rules, and hard-to-manage behavior. It encompasses outwardly disruptive reactions as well as unstable self-regulation in everyday functioning.
Goal Persistence
Goal Persistence measures a person's tendency to sustain effort, stay engaged with aims, and continue working through obstacles until progress or completion is reached. It encompasses perseverance, disciplined follow-through, and confidence in solving problems through continued effort.
Work Strain
Work Strain measures the degree to which work is experienced as burdensome, discouraging, and depleting. It encompasses perceived pressure, unfavorable conditions, limited reward or advancement, and mental or physical exhaustion tied to work responsibilities.
Anxiety
Anxiety measures the extent to which an expression conveys fearful apprehension, nervous arousal, and panic-like reactions in response to perceived threat, uncertainty, or bodily sensations. It encompasses persistent worry, feeling tense or scared, and sudden surges of alarm.
Nicotine Dependence
Nicotine Dependence measures the extent to which expressions reflect reliance on smoking or vaping, including urges, difficulty abstaining, cue-triggered use, and perceived emotional or physical need for nicotine. It encompasses both behavioral compulsion and beliefs that nicotine helps regulate mood or discomfort.
Perceived Social Support
Perceived Social Support measures the extent to which an expression conveys having dependable, emotionally meaningful, and practically helpful relationships available. It encompasses feelings of closeness, trust, companionship, advice, and confidence that others can be counted on when needed.
Pain Interference
Pain Interference measures the extent to which pain intrudes on functioning, attention, planning, and daily activities. It encompasses both the felt impact of pain and the degree to which pain drives limitation, interruption, and reliance on relief.
Stress
Stress measures the degree to which expressions convey felt pressure, strain, and difficulty coping with demands or disruptive events. It encompasses both the presence of stressors and the experienced impact of stress on emotional state, energy, and functioning.
Smoking Involvement
Smoking Involvement measures the extent and regularity of tobacco smoking behavior as expressed through use history, frequency, quantity, and persistence of smoking across situations. It encompasses minimal or past-oriented mention of smoking, intermittent or occasional use, and established regular smoking.
Productivity
Productivity measures the extent to which an expression conveys effective, useful, and goal-directed functioning in work, daily activities, or life overall. It encompasses perceived ability to carry out responsibilities, produce valued outcomes, and live in a purposeful and effective way.
Gender Dysphoria
Gender Dysphoria measures distress, aversion, and identity incongruence related to one's assigned sex, sex-linked body characteristics, or expected gendered social role. It encompasses discomfort with being seen or living as a particular gender, desire for another gendered embodiment or role, and the emotional burden attached to that mismatch.
Professional Care Engagement
Professional Care Engagement measures the extent to which an expression reflects contact with formal health or mental health services and professionals. It encompasses references to receiving, consulting, or evaluating care from clinicians, hospitals, clinics, and related support services.
Autism Identification
Autism Identification measures the extent to which an expression centers on autism-spectrum status, recognition, diagnosis, or autistic self-reference. It encompasses both formal diagnostic framing and informal identity-based language used to describe autistic traits, labels, or suspected autism.
Financial Strain
Financial Strain measures the degree to which an expression reflects difficulty meeting material needs, covering routine expenses, and maintaining a sense of economic security. It encompasses both concrete hardship, such as trouble paying bills or affording necessities, and the broader felt tightness of household finances.
Risk Appraisal
Risk Appraisal measures how strongly an expression centers on the perceived danger, uncertainty, or potential negative consequences of actions, choices, or disclosures. It encompasses judgments about physical, social, ethical, and life-course hazards, including whether an act is seen as safe, questionable, or likely to lead to harm or failure.
Gender Incongruence
Gender Incongruence measures the extent to which an expression reflects mismatch, discomfort, or distress related to assigned sex characteristics, gendered treatment, or desired gendered embodiment. It encompasses wishes to be another gender, aversion to one's current sexed body or social classification, and the personal impact of these experiences.
Sexual Permissiveness
Sexual Permissiveness measures how accepting, interested, and behaviorally open an expression is toward sexual activity, erotic content, and nontraditional sexual norms. It encompasses attitudes toward sexual freedom, sexual excitement, explicit material, and conventional versus unrestricted sexual conduct.
Psychosocial Adjustment
Psychosocial Adjustment measures how well an expression reflects effective engagement with daily life, relationships, interests, self-regulation, and openness to ordinary challenges and experiences. It encompasses functioning that ranges from largely neutral or isolated symptoms to strain, withdrawal, imbalance, and difficulty managing behavior and social life.
Sexual Orientation Attitudes
Sexual Orientation Attitudes measures how expressions frame, evaluate, and respond to homosexuality, sexual orientation, and people identified by those identities. It encompasses acceptance, discomfort, prejudice, social stereotyping, and orientation-related identity concerns or social experiences.
Combat Exposure
Combat Exposure measures the extent to which an expression reflects direct involvement in armed conflict, including proximity to weapons, enemy fire, life threat, and active fighting conditions. It encompasses both being present in war-zone danger and participating in combat situations where injury or death is salient.
Burnout
Burnout measures a state of emotional depletion, disengagement, and reduced sense of purpose or capacity in one's ongoing responsibilities. It encompasses feeling drained, detached, mechanically involved, and unable to invest effort or care.
Form Completion Burden
Form Completion Burden measures how effortful, strenuous, and difficult an expression portrays the process of understanding, filling out, and completing forms or questionnaires. It encompasses perceived complexity, time demand, need for assistance, and obstacles to accurate completion.
Risk Seeking
Risk Seeking measures attraction to activities, choices, and situations that involve danger, speed, uncertainty, or potential harm. It encompasses willingness to approach thrilling or hazardous experiences, especially in recreation, physical challenge, and rapid decision contexts.
Familial Mental Illness History
Familial Mental Illness History measures the extent to which an expression identifies mental health problems as occurring among biologically related family members. It encompasses whether such problems are present in relatives, how broadly they extend across kin, and whether they are described in lineage, onset, or ongoing course terms.
Cardiac Threat Distress
Cardiac Threat Distress measures fearful, preoccupied, and distressing responses to chest sensations, breathing difficulty, and related signs interpreted as possible heart danger. It encompasses concern about cardiac symptoms, alarm during bodily arousal, and difficulty disengaging attention from perceived threat.
Punitive Social Attitudes
Punitive Social Attitudes measures the extent to which an expression endorses harsh judgment, strict rule enforcement, and retributive responses to wrongdoing and social order. It encompasses views about punishment, moral toughness, criminal justice, and whether people should be treated with mercy or held to severe consequences.
Seasonal Sensitivity
Seasonal Sensitivity measures how strongly an expression reflects mood, comfort, energy, or preference being shaped by seasons, daylight, and weather conditions. It encompasses reactions to brightness, temperature, seasonal change, and the felt impact of these conditions on daily experience.
Medical Dependence
Medical Dependence measures the extent to which an expression reflects ongoing reliance on treatment, medication, health-related assistance, or condition management in daily life. It encompasses the presence of a medical condition together with the degree to which regular care, support, or accommodation is needed.
Life Meaning
Life Meaning measures the extent to which an expression conveys a felt sense that life is coherent, purposeful, and significant. It encompasses understanding one's existence, valuing one's activities, and experiencing direction or purpose in life.
Responsibility Role
Responsibility Role measures the extent to which an expression centers on having a defined duty, accountable position, or decision-making role within a group, team, or organized activity. It encompasses references to role occupancy, responsibility for outcomes, and formal or informal authority tied to carrying work forward.
Emotional Distress
Emotional Distress measures the presence and intensity of upsetting emotional experience, including sadness, negativity, overwhelm, intrusive emotional reactions, and difficulty managing feelings. It encompasses both the felt strength of distress and the extent to which those feelings disrupt attention, functioning, or coping.
Environmental Concern
Environmental Concern measures the degree to which an expression reflects preoccupation with environmental harm, personal responsibility toward ecological problems, and engagement with conservation-oriented choices. It encompasses worry, conflict, and action tendencies centered on protecting the earth and reducing environmental impact.
Sustainment Confidence
Sustainment Confidence measures the extent to which an expression conveys confidence that an effort, relationship, activity, or capability can continue over time and remain viable despite practical constraints. It encompasses expectations of durability, continuation, long-term commitment, and the ability to maintain momentum or support.
Fatigue
Fatigue measures the degree of tiredness, low energy, and exhaustion expressed in an expression. It encompasses reduced vitality, feeling run-down or worn out, and limits on activity due to depleted energy.
Substance Use Exposure
Substance Use Exposure measures the extent to which an expression reflects contact with, experimentation with, or ongoing use of psychoactive substances and related smoking practices. It encompasses reports of trying drugs, considering reducing use, and describing current or past patterns of use.
Risk Awareness
Risk Awareness measures the extent to which an expression recognizes harmful consequences, social disapproval, and the need to heed warnings about potentially damaging behavior. It encompasses awareness that an action is unsafe, foolish, unhealthy, or likely to bring later costs.
Decision Equity
Decision Equity measures the extent to which expressions describe fair, shared, and balanced influence over decisions within a relationship, group, or collaborative effort. It encompasses voice, mutual participation, equal standing, and the sense that decisions reflect all parties' interests rather than one-sided control.
Perceived Control
Perceived Control measures the extent to which an expression conveys a sense of personal influence over life events, decisions, and important circumstances. It encompasses felt agency, ability to direct outcomes, and whether life is experienced as self-directed or governed by outside forces.
Anger Control
Anger Control measures the perceived ability to regulate anger, irritability, temper, and stress-related emotional reactions. It encompasses both confidence in managing these reactions and experiences of being able or unable to keep them from escalating into outbursts.
Emotional Regulation
Emotional Regulation measures how expressions describe monitoring, managing, suppressing, distancing from, or reshaping emotional experience and emotional display. It encompasses both efforts to contain emotions and deliberate attempts to alter their intensity, meaning, or outward expression.
Smoking Reinforcement
Smoking Reinforcement measures the extent to which smoking is experienced as rewarding, regulating, and compelling, including use for pleasure, relief, and persistence despite discomfort or consequences. It encompasses both the perceived benefits of smoking and the pull to continue or conceal smoking behavior.
Acceptance
Acceptance measures a person's tendency to take themselves, other people, and life circumstances as they are, with tolerance, patience, and willingness to accommodate imperfection or difference. It encompasses self-acceptance, forgiveness, broad-mindedness toward others, and readiness to live with what cannot be changed.
Obsessive Preoccupation
Obsessive Preoccupation measures the extent to which an expression reflects intrusive, repetitive, or fixated mental and behavioral involvement with thoughts, ideas, rules, or activities. It encompasses compulsive rituals, persistent mental preoccupation, and absorption that becomes difficult to disengage from.
Environmental Concern
Environmental Concern measures the degree to which an expression is oriented toward the natural world and environmental problems, including emotional preoccupation, perceived personal responsibility, and valuation of nature. It encompasses both distress about environmental harm and active caring about protecting or relating to nature.
Assertiveness
Assertiveness measures the tendency to express one's own views, stand up for personal rights or interests, and act independently in the face of disagreement, opposition, or social pressure. It encompasses confidence in voicing opinions, resisting undue influence, and taking interpersonal or social risks to maintain one's position.
Life Purpose
Life Purpose measures the extent to which an expression conveys a felt sense that life is meaningful, directed, and organized around worthwhile aims. It encompasses clarity of goals, perceived meaning, and a sense of personal growth or direction.
Competitiveness
Competitiveness measures the extent to which an expression reflects a drive to outperform others, win contests, and approach social or goal-directed situations in terms of rivalry versus cooperation. It encompasses enjoyment of competition, strategic efforts to gain advantage, and the relative emphasis placed on winning, compromise, or collaborative coordination.
Sexual Functioning
Sexual Functioning measures the presence and quality of sexual response, sexual interest, orgasmic capacity, and comfort with sex-related bodily functioning and anatomy. It encompasses expressions about desire, arousal, erection, ejaculation, orgasm, and perceived sexual problems.
Caregiving Strain
Caregiving Strain measures the emotional, practical, and interpersonal burden associated with sustained responsibility for another person's daily needs and wellbeing. It encompasses role demands, loss of privacy or freedom, uncertainty about how to help, vigilance, stress, and the felt impact of caregiving on one's own life and health.
Aquatic Adventure Seeking
Aquatic Adventure Seeking measures attraction to water-based activities that involve immersion, swimming, diving, boating, or other physically engaging aquatic experiences. It encompasses comfort with being in and under water, willingness to participate in increasingly challenging water activities, and interest in novel or thrilling aquatic recreation.
Self-Regard
Self-Regard measures the overall positivity, respect, and acceptance a person expresses toward themselves. It encompasses self-liking, confidence, perceived personal worth, and the degree of kindness or criticism directed inward.
Perfectionism
Perfectionism measures the extent to which an expression reflects exacting standards, strong concern with mistakes, carefulness, order, and pressure to do things correctly or flawlessly. It encompasses both achievement-focused striving and self-critical reactions when performance falls short of those standards.
Pregnancy Concern
Pregnancy Concern measures the degree of worry, vigilance, and emotionally charged anticipation focused on pregnancy, fetal health, and childbirth. It encompasses concern about exposures during pregnancy, the baby's wellbeing, and the safety and course of labor and delivery.
Manipulative Opportunism
Manipulative Opportunism measures the tendency to pursue personal advantage by exploiting situations, bending norms, and strategically influencing other people. It encompasses calculated self-serving behavior such as using charm, flattery, deception, rule circumvention, or power to get desired outcomes.
Administrative Burden
Administrative Burden measures the degree to which an expression reflects difficulty, effort, and obstruction in dealing with formal systems, paperwork, eligibility processes, records, and service coordination. It encompasses practical strain around obtaining benefits, services, documentation, approvals, or corrections through institutional procedures.
Support Satisfaction
Support Satisfaction measures how positively an expression evaluates the helpfulness, responsiveness, and adequacy of support, care, or assistance received from other people or services. It encompasses perceived helpfulness, feeling listened to, and satisfaction with treatment, consultation, or practical help.
Adventure Seeking
Adventure Seeking measures attraction to novel, exciting, and physically risky experiences, especially those involving outdoor action and challenge. It encompasses willingness to approach danger, stimulation, and thrill-oriented activities as desirable or rewarding.
Tobacco Use
Tobacco Use measures whether and how directly an expression indicates smoking or use of tobacco products. It encompasses nonuse, occasional or reduced use, current use, and more explicit endorsement of smoking forms such as cigarettes, cigars, or pipe tobacco.
Alcohol Misuse
Alcohol Misuse measures the extent to which an expression reflects problematic alcohol use, including heavy drinking, alcohol-related impairment, and beliefs or self-appraisals that normalize or reinforce drinking. It encompasses both behavioral consequences of drinking and the perceived emotional or physical benefits that sustain continued use.
Participatory Influence
Participatory Influence measures the extent to which an expression reflects having voice, input, and actual power in shared decisions, planning, and governance. It encompasses being consulted, being included in discussion, having one's views considered, and directly shaping outcomes through representation or voting.
Reproductive Risk Prevention
Reproductive Risk Prevention measures the extent to which an expression focuses on preventing unintended pregnancy and managing sexual health risk through contraception, condom use, abortion, fertility control, and related reproductive decisions. It encompasses both general sexual-risk references and explicit attention to preventive methods and their perceived benefits or use.
Collaborative Alignment
Collaborative Alignment measures the extent to which expressions describe coordinated, mutually accepted participation in shared decisions, priorities, and working relationships. It encompasses the ability to handle disagreement, build consensus, sustain cooperation, and remain committed to collective action.
Desire Fulfillment
Desire Fulfillment measures the extent to which an expression centers on wanting preferred states, outcomes, or recognition in life, relationships, and self-experience. It encompasses wishes for change, enjoyment, acceptance, competence, happiness, and being understood or valued.
Career Transition Strain
Career Transition Strain measures the degree to which expressions center on uncertainty, disruption, and consequential decision-making around career direction, career change, and age-related timing of work life choices. It encompasses career-focused planning, perceived opportunity or limitation, and the sense of risk or crisis attached to changing or restarting one's vocational path.
Relationship Dissolution
Relationship Dissolution measures the experience of close relationships ending, breaking apart, or being seriously threatened by separation, betrayal, or loss. It encompasses breakup-related strain, perceived instability in attachment bonds, and the emotional impact of relational endings across partner, friendship, and other close ties.
Sleep Disturbance
Sleep Disturbance measures problems with initiating, maintaining, and obtaining restorative sleep, along with daytime disruption linked to poor sleep. It encompasses restless or irregular sleep, difficulty falling or returning to sleep, insufficient sleep, and consequences such as tiredness and irritability.
Television Viewing
Television Viewing measures the extent to which an expression refers to watching television or closely related broadcast media as a routine activity, source of enjoyment, or focus of time and attention. It encompasses incidental mention of viewing, engagement with programs or news, and explicit reports of how much television is watched.
Identity Integration Strain
Identity Integration Strain measures the degree of tension, conflict, and social difficulty an expression conveys around holding a stigmatized identity within broader cultural or community contexts. It encompasses concerns about acceptance, belonging, openness, and experiences of rejection or prejudice across intersecting identities.
Religious Engagement
Religious Engagement measures the extent to which expressions reflect active religious or spiritual belief, practice, identity, and reliance on faith as a source of meaning, comfort, and guidance. It encompasses personal belief strength, participation in religious activities, prayer or devotional practice, and perceived connection to a spiritual being or God.
Light Sensitivity
Light Sensitivity measures how strongly an expression reflects discomfort, aversion, or behavioral adjustment in response to bright light, sunlight, glare, and related outdoor exposure. It encompasses sensory irritation from brightness as well as preferences and activity choices shaped by light conditions.
Rapid Decision Readiness
Rapid Decision Readiness measures a person's tendency and perceived ability to think, choose, and act effectively under time pressure. It encompasses comfort with fast pace, split-second responding, seizing immediate opportunities, and functioning in situations that demand quick mental processing.
Hoarding Tendencies
Hoarding Tendencies measures the extent to which expressions reflect acquiring and keeping possessions, difficulty discarding them, and clutter or disorganization that interferes with everyday use of space and belongings. It encompasses impulsive acquisition, attachment to possessions, accumulation, and problems caused by stored or misplaced things.
Self-Efficacy
Self-Efficacy measures a person's felt confidence in handling problems, managing responsibilities, and dealing effectively with everyday demands. It encompasses perceived competence, capability, and readiness to cope with challenges and personal obligations.
Alcohol Harm Beliefs
Alcohol Harm Beliefs measures the extent to which an expression frames drinking as damaging, impairing, or behaviorally problematic. It encompasses beliefs about alcohol's effects on health, judgment, mood regulation, and social conduct.
Attachment Preoccupation
Attachment Preoccupation measures the degree to which an expression reflects emotional fixation on a specific close other, including felt need for contact, difficulty separating, persistent thoughts about the person, and longing for reunion. It encompasses both affiliative closeness and intrusive, absorbing concern with the relationship.