The Role of Gender Characteristics in Lifestyle Choices

Lifestyle is a way of expressing oneself in life, taking into account individual social opportunities and bio-socio-psychic potentials. A healthy lifestyle is a unified system of individual life manifestations that affect the self-actualization of the spiritual and physical efforts of the human personality. The structural model of lifestyle includes semantic values, content-structure, social role and social time components. Lifestyle is not only about physical activities, but also about how people understand the social world and how they feel about it. Lifestyle refers to the way people engage in meaningful behaviors within a social and cultural framework. In this sense, a person's lifestyle reflects their relationship to society and how they see their place in that society. The impact of gender identity, and gender characteristics to lifestyle has been described in this manuscript. The literature analyzing, and comparative approach has been chosen as the main method of the study. Keywords: gender identity, interpersonal relationship, lifestyle, socialization