Resilience and hopelessness mediate the relationship between benevolent childhood experiences and life satisfaction: evidence from a cross-cultural study.

IF 2.7 3区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

BMC Psychology Pub Date : 2024-11-07 DOI:10.1186/s40359-024-02134-5

Melih Sever, Oktay Tatlıcıoğlu, Telma Catarina Almeida, E P Abdul Azeez, Sónia Caridade, Olga Cunha

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Background: A growing body of literature focuses on the role of benevolent childhood experiences (BCEs) in predicting adulthood well-being, in addition to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). However, cross-cultural differences are generally ignored in this endeavor. Hence, this study aimed to explore the role of BCEs in predicting life satisfaction, resilience, and hopelessness. We also examined the potential of resilience and the role of hopelessness in mediating the relationship between BCE and life satisfaction.

Methods: A total of 850 university students from Turkey (n = 371), Portugal (n = 248), and India (n = 231), aged 17 to 58 years (M = 22.12, SD = 4.41), participated in the study. Participants completed an online protocol consisting of measures to assess BCEs, life satisfaction, resilience, and hopelessness.

Results: BCEs, hopelessness, and life satisfaction have significantly differed among the samples based on the country of residence. BCEs were positively correlated to resilience and life satisfaction and negatively to hopelessness. In the sequential mediation model, after controlling for country and sex, resilience and hopelessness sequentially mediated the relationship between BCEs and life satisfaction. BCEs were associated with life satisfaction, resilience, and hopelessness across countries and sexes. The model explains 42.8% of the variability.

Conclusion: Despite differences between countries, BCEs are important predictors of adult well-being in all three countries and should be monitored along with ACE. Further, resilience seems to have an important role in lowering the negative consequences of lower BCEs and feelings of hopelessness, pointing to the need to strengthen psychological resilience among adults.

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复原力和无望感是仁慈童年经历与生活满意度之间关系的中介：一项跨文化研究的证据。

背景：除了不良童年经历（ACEs）之外，越来越多的文献关注仁慈童年经历（BCEs）在预测成年后幸福生活中的作用。然而，在这项工作中，跨文化差异通常被忽视。因此，本研究旨在探讨BCE在预测生活满意度、复原力和绝望感方面的作用。我们还研究了复原力的潜力和绝望在调解 BCE 与生活满意度之间关系中的作用：共有来自土耳其（n = 371）、葡萄牙（n = 248）和印度（n = 231）的 850 名大学生参与了研究，他们的年龄在 17 至 58 岁之间（男 = 22.12，女 = 4.41）。参与者完成了一项在线协议，其中包括评估 BCEs、生活满意度、复原力和绝望感的措施：结果：BCEs、无望感和生活满意度在不同居住国的样本中存在显著差异。BCEs与复原力和生活满意度呈正相关，而与绝望感呈负相关。在顺序中介模型中，在控制了国家和性别之后，复原力和无望感顺序中介了BCEs和生活满意度之间的关系。不同国家和性别的 BCEs 与生活满意度、复原力和无望感都有关联。该模型解释了42.8%的变异性：尽管国家之间存在差异，但在所有三个国家中，BCEs 都是成人幸福感的重要预测因素，因此应与 ACE 一起进行监测。此外，复原力似乎在降低较低 BCEs 和绝望感的负面影响方面发挥着重要作用，这表明有必要加强成年人的心理复原力。

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BMC Psychology Psychology-Psychology (all)

CiteScore

3.90

自引率

2.80%

发文量

265

审稿时长

24 weeks

期刊介绍： BMC Psychology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers manuscripts on all aspects of psychology, human behavior and the mind, including developmental, clinical, cognitive, experimental, health and social psychology, as well as personality and individual differences. The journal welcomes quantitative and qualitative research methods, including animal studies.