Life Expectancy in the Spouses of Veterans

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Copyright© 2018, ASP Ins. This open-access article is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License which permits Share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and Adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material) under the Attribution-NonCommercial terms. [1] Comparison of quality of life, depression, stress, anxiety... [2] Experiences of military spouses of veterans with ... [3] Quality of life of caregiver spouses of veterans ... [4] Amouchie. Secondary traumatic stress, dissociative ... [5] The role of coping, resilience, and social ... [6] The role of religious orientation and life expectancy ... [7] The role of hope, loneliness feeling and their components ... [8] Spousal mindfulness and social support in ... [9] The relationship between mindfulness and ... [10] You can’t always get what you want, but can ... [11] Relationship, social support and personality as ... [12] Correlation of social support with social health ... [13] The relationship between social support and marital ... [14] Relationship between social support and quality of life dimensions ... [15] Partridge K. Letting go: Mindfulness and ... [16] Mindfulness, self-compassion and happiness in non-meditators ... [17] Emotional resilience mediates the relationship between ... [18] Mindfulness, self-compassion, posttraumatic stress ... [19] Are mindfulness and self-compassion ... [20] The effect of mindfulness-based cognitive ... [21] The effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction ... [22] Predictingthe quality of marital relationship on ... [23] Demystifying cognitive flexibility: Implications for ... [24] The role of cognitive flexibility and mindfulness in predicting ... [25] Investigating cognitive flexibility as a potential ... [26] Correlates of cognitive flexibility in veterans ... [27] Explanation of psychological problems ... [28] The relationship between life’s meaningfulness, hope ... [29] The role of hope as a mediator in recollected ... [30] The relationship of optimism and hope with depression ... [31] The multidimensional scale of perceived ... [32] Psychometric properties of the multidimensional scale ... [33] Internet and communication: Perceived social support ... [34] Why we don’t need self-esteem: On fundamental ... [35] Mindfulness in Iran and the United States: Cross-cultural ... [36] The cognitive flexibility inventory: Instrument development ... [37] The mediating role of cognitive flexibility in correlation ... [38] The will and the ways: Development and ... [39] Prediction of life expectancy of spouses based of metacognitive ... Aims Spouses in the role of caring for veterans are under the influence of stresses and problems which threaten their health and their families’ health. On the other hand, spouses with high life expectancy will have high quality of life satisfaction. The purpose of this study was to determine the role of perceived social support, mindfulness and cognitive flexibility in predicting life expectancies of spouses of veterans. Instruments & Methods The present study is a descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of the study includes all the spouses of veterans supported by Martyr and Veterans Affairs Foundation of Ardabil in 2016 (N=3400). Using available sampling, 110 of them were selected as sample. For data collection, perceived social support (MSPSS), mindfulness (MASS), cognitive flexibility (CFQ) and life expectancy scale (SHS) were used. Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regressions using SPSS 23 software. Findings There was a significant relationship between the perceived social support, mindfulness and cognitive flexibility with spouses’ life expectancy (p<0.05). Also the perceived social support, mindfulness and cognitive flexibility could predict the life expectancy of spouses of veterans by 47% (p<0.05). Conclusion That the perceived social support, mindfulness and cognitive flexibility are included in the variables relevant to the life expectancy and they can predict it. In general, the spouses having higher levels of perceived social support, mindfulness and cognitive flexibility also have higher of life expectancy compare with other spouses. A B S T R A C T A R T I C L E I N F O