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Positive psychological traits predict future sleep quality and quantity: exploring emotion regulation as a common mediator. 积极的心理特征可预测未来的睡眠质量和数量：探索作为共同中介因素的情绪调节。

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Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-11 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2024.2314722

Amber F Tout, Donna C Jessop, Eleanor Miles

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Look away now! Defensive processing and unrealistic optimism by level of alcohol consumption. 现在看开点！按饮酒量划分的防御性处理和不切实际的乐观主义。

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Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-20 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2024.2316681

J Morris, H Tattan-Birch, I P Albery, N Heather, A C Moss

{"title":"Look away now! Defensive processing and unrealistic optimism by level of alcohol consumption.","authors":"J Morris, H Tattan-Birch, I P Albery, N Heather, A C Moss","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2024.2316681","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08870446.2024.2316681","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: Health risk information is insufficient as a means of reducing alcohol use, particularly when it evokes negative emotional states amongst those for whom it is most personally relevant. Appraisal biases, or 'defensive processing', may be employed to mitigate the psychological discomfort posed by such information. Few studies have evaluated the role of defensive processing in people with different levels of alcohol consumption.Design: Online participants (n = 597) completed measures of defensive processing of a health risk infographic, perceived susceptibility and severity of alcohol use, efficacy for resisting alcohol use, unrealistic optimism, the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test - Consumption (AUDIT-C) and demographics.Results: AUDIT-C scores were positively and linearly associated with all defensive processing measures (Pearson's correlation r from.16 to .36), threat and susceptibility (r = .16) and unrealistic optimism (r = .50). AUDIT-C scores were also negatively associated with efficacy for controlling alcohol use (r = -0.48).Conclusion: People with alcohol use disorder (AUD) engaged in much more defensive processing of alcohol-related messages, offering an explanation for why such messages are limited at eliciting behaviour change. High levels of unrealistic optimism in people with alcohol use disorder may reflect low problem recognition in order to maintain a problem-free drinking identity.","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"1339-1357"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139913349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Effects of 12-week aerobic exercise with different frequencies on executive function in preschool children: a cluster randomized controlled trial. 为期 12 周、不同频率的有氧运动对学龄前儿童执行功能的影响：分组随机对照试验。

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Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2024-01-29 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2024.2309542

Changshuang He, Xiaoying Peng, Jinming Zhang, Wei Cheng, Shaoyu Guo, Wenwen Hu, Chunyi Fang, Muyang Huan, Yanhua Lu, Menghao Sang, Tang Zhou, Hua Wu, Longkai Li, Minghui Quan

{"title":"Effects of 12-week aerobic exercise with different frequencies on executive function in preschool children: a cluster randomized controlled trial.","authors":"Changshuang He, Xiaoying Peng, Jinming Zhang, Wei Cheng, Shaoyu Guo, Wenwen Hu, Chunyi Fang, Muyang Huan, Yanhua Lu, Menghao Sang, Tang Zhou, Hua Wu, Longkai Li, Minghui Quan","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2024.2309542","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08870446.2024.2309542","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: To explore the effects of a 12-week aerobic exercise program with different frequencies on executive functions (EFs) in preschool children.Method: Four kindergartens, comprising 126 preschool children in Shanghai, were enrolled in this 12-week cluster randomized controlled trial with a 12-week follow-up period. Kindergartens were allocated to high-frequency (three times a week) or low-frequency (once a week) exercise groups using stratified block randomization. Three core sub-EFs, including inhibition, working memory, and cognitive flexibility, were assessed at baseline, post-intervention, and the 12-week follow-up.Results: Compared to baseline, both groups showed significant improvements in inhibition and working memory after the intervention and at the 12-week follow-up. However, only the high-frequency exercise group demonstrated a significant improvement in cognitive flexibility after the follow-up period. Nonetheless, there were no significant differences in the core sub-functions of EFs between the two groups at the end of the intervention or the follow-up periods.Conclusion: A 12-week aerobic exercise of three times a week was insufficient to significantly improve EFs in preschool children compared to once a week. Future studies are needed to examine the dose-response relationship of aerobic exercise on EFs and to verify the effects of different exercise modalities on EFs in preschool children.","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"1243-1258"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139576203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The burnout-depression conundrum: investigating construct-relevant multidimensionality across four countries and four patient samples. 职业倦怠与抑郁的难题：研究四个国家和四个患者样本中与构建相关的多维性。

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Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-23 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2024.2321358

Leon T De Beer, Jari J Hakanen, Wilmar B Schaufeli, Hans De Witte, Jürgen Glaser, Janne Kaltiainen, Christian Seubert, Alexandre J S Morin

{"title":"The burnout-depression conundrum: investigating construct-relevant multidimensionality across four countries and four patient samples.","authors":"Leon T De Beer, Jari J Hakanen, Wilmar B Schaufeli, Hans De Witte, Jürgen Glaser, Janne Kaltiainen, Christian Seubert, Alexandre J S Morin","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2024.2321358","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08870446.2024.2321358","url":null,"abstract":"This research seeks to contribute to the ongoing discussion about the distinctive nature of burnout and depression. In a first study, we relied on employee samples from four European countries (N = 5199; 51.27% women; Mage = 43.14). In a second study, we relied on a large sample of patients (N = 5791; 53.70% women; Mage = 39.54) who received a diagnosis of burnout, depressive episode, job strain, or adaptation disorder. Across all samples and subsamples, we relied on the bifactor exploratory structural equation modelling to achieve an optimal disaggregation of the variance shared across our measures of burnout and depression from the variance uniquely associated with each specific subscale included in these measures. Our results supported the value of this representation of participants' responses, as well as their invariance across samples. More precisely, our results revealed a strong underlying global factor representing participants' levels of psychological distress, as well as the presence of equally strong specific factors supporting the distinctive nature of burnout and depression. This means that, although both conditions share common ground (i.e. psychological distress), they are not redundant. Interestingly, our results also unexpectedly suggested that suicidal ideation might represent a distinctive core component of depression.","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"1358-1385"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139940672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A video-based intervention to overcome pregnancy smoking stigma among healthcare students: a randomised controlled trial. 通过视频干预克服医学生对怀孕吸烟的偏见：随机对照试验。

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Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-19 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2024.2316677

J-C David, N Rascle, M Auriacombe, F Serre, A-L Sutter-Dallay, D Loyal

{"title":"A video-based intervention to overcome pregnancy smoking stigma among healthcare students: a randomised controlled trial.","authors":"J-C David, N Rascle, M Auriacombe, F Serre, A-L Sutter-Dallay, D Loyal","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2024.2316677","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08870446.2024.2316677","url":null,"abstract":"Objectives: This study tests a video intervention to reduce pregnancy smoking stigma among French healthcare students.Design: The participants were randomly selected to watch online either an experimental video (presenting educational content regarding stigma and contact with pregnant smokers) or a control video (presenting standard educational content about the risks of smoking). The students completed scales assessing stigma, intention to address smoking cessation and self-efficacy to do so, before the intervention (T0, n = 252), one week after the intervention (T1, n = 187), and one month after the intervention (T2, n = 131).Results: Compared to the medical students, especially men, the midwifery students reported lower derogative cognitions (η2p = .18), negative behaviours (η2p = .07) and personal distress (η2p = .06). However, the midwifery students also reported lower levels of intention to address smoking (η2p = .02) than the medical students. The experimental video decreased derogative cognitions to a greater extent than the control video (η2p = .23) in both the short and medium term. This study is the first intervention designed to reduce the stigmatisation of pregnant smokers by healthcare students. We recommend that the issue of stigma should receive more attention in the medical curriculum.","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"1303-1322"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139900329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Stability in health behavior patterns in middle adulthood: a 19-year follow-up study. 中年期健康行为模式的稳定性：一项为期 19 年的跟踪研究。

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Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-22 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2024.2316676

Johanna Ahola, Tiia Kekäläinen, Marja-Liisa Kinnunen, Asko Tolvanen, Tuuli Pitkänen, Lea Pulkkinen, Milla Saajanaho, Katja Kokko

{"title":"Stability in health behavior patterns in middle adulthood: a 19-year follow-up study.","authors":"Johanna Ahola, Tiia Kekäläinen, Marja-Liisa Kinnunen, Asko Tolvanen, Tuuli Pitkänen, Lea Pulkkinen, Milla Saajanaho, Katja Kokko","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2024.2316676","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08870446.2024.2316676","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: This study investigated subgroups of adults with particular health behavior patterns, their stability over 19 years, and the role of sociodemographic and personality characteristics in these.Methods and Measures: Data on smoking, alcohol consumption, and physical activity were collected at ages 42, 50, and 61 in the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (n = 205-302). Latent class, latent transition, and logistic regression analyses were used.Results: Four similar classes of health behaviors were identified at each age. A class named low alcohol consumption (AC)-high physical activity (PA) included individuals with the lowest levels of alcohol consumption and the highest levels of physical activity, and a class named high AC-low PA vice versa. Classes between these extremes of alcohol consumption and physical activity levels were nonsmokers with the lowest proportion of smokers, and smokers vice versa. Although transitions emerged, class memberships were relatively stable. Women, those who were married, held a degree, had higher occupational status, and certain personality traits at age 42 were more likely to belong continuously to healthier classes compared to a stable membership in high AC-low PA.Conclusion: Health behaviors exist in patterns, are relatively stable across adulthood, and associated with sociodemographic and personality characteristics.","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"1282-1302"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139932626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Associations of childhood poly-adversity with alcohol problems among undergraduates: adolescent alcohol use trajectories and drinker self-schema. 童年的多重性与大学生酗酒问题的关系：青少年酗酒轨迹和酗酒者的自我模式。

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Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-15 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2024.2316680

Chia-Kuei Lee, Jui-Ying Feng

{"title":"Associations of childhood poly-adversity with alcohol problems among undergraduates: adolescent alcohol use trajectories and drinker self-schema.","authors":"Chia-Kuei Lee, Jui-Ying Feng","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2024.2316680","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08870446.2024.2316680","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: Undergraduate drinking is associated with childhood adversity, early alcohol experience, and drinker self-schema. However, the pathway linking childhood adversity to undergraduate drinking problems remains undefined. This study aimed to identify the effects of childhood poly-adversity on the sequelae of adolescent alcohol-use trajectory, drinker self-schema, and alcohol problems among undergraduates. We also examined whether adolescent alcohol-use trajectory and drinker self-schema mediated the effects of childhood poly-adversity on undergraduate alcohol problems.Methods: Baseline data from an ongoing prospective study, which included 851 first- and second-year full-time college students in Taiwan, were used. An anonymous online questionnaire was administered.Results: The results showed that low poly-adversity and high poly-adversity were associated with the mean of initial alcohol use frequency during adolescence and further alcohol problems at college than those with no adversity. High poly-adversity was also associated with the increase in alcohol use frequency during adolescence. Both initial and increase in alcohol use frequency were associated with higher drinker self-schema scores and further alcohol problems. The indirect effects of high poly-adversity on undergraduate alcohol problems were mediated through adolescent alcohol-use trajectories and drinker self-schema.Conclusion: Findings suggest that early identification of childhood poly-adversity and interventions to decrease adolescent drinking may prevent the formation of drinker self-schema and reduce undergraduate drinking problems.","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"1323-1338"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139741833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A dyadic analysis of anti-fat attitudes and partners' diet-related influence among gay married men. 对已婚男同性恋的反脂态度和伴侣对饮食的影响进行的二元分析。

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Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2025-08-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-28 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2024.2322069

Kristin J August, Josh R Novak, Charlotte H Markey, Megan B Mason, Terry Peak, Julie Gast

{"title":"A dyadic analysis of anti-fat attitudes and partners' diet-related influence among gay married men.","authors":"Kristin J August, Josh R Novak, Charlotte H Markey, Megan B Mason, Terry Peak, Julie Gast","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2024.2322069","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08870446.2024.2322069","url":null,"abstract":"Objectives: The focus on physical appearance among gay men has potential implications for anti-fat attitudes, including those directed toward romantic partners. Partners often influence each other's behaviors including those linked to weight, but most research has examined the consequences of these influence strategies versus their antecedents. To address this research gap, we examined how men's own and their partners' anti-fat attitudes were related to both health-promoting (control) and health-compromising (undermining) types of diet-related influence and whether these associations differed by weight status.Methods and results: Analyzing data from a cross-sectional online survey of 450 U.S. adult gay married men (225 couples), Actor-Partner Interdependence Models revealed that individuals' own anti-fat attitudes (all types) were positively associated with more frequent receipt of spousal control and undermining. Additionally, partner's fears about gaining weight were positively associated with more frequent receipt of spousal control and dislike of higher weight people and fear of gaining weight (among those of higher weight status) were positively associated with more frequent receipt of spousal undermining.Conclusion: Our findings add to the literature on diet-related interactions among gay married men, highlight the value of examining these processes dyadically, and suggest the importance of including both members of couples in health promotion and intervention efforts.","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"1386-1405"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139990892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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'I told them they had to get tested, and they did': social influence among siblings with Li-Fraumeni syndrome. “我告诉他们必须去做检查，他们也做了”：患有李-弗劳梅尼综合症的兄弟姐妹的社会影响。

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Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2025-07-23 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2025.2534814

Chloe O Huelsnitz, Allison Werner-Lin, Ashley S Thompson, Camella J Rising, Rowan Forbes Shepherd, Jennifer L Young, Mark H Greene, Payal P Khincha

{"title":"'I told them they had to get tested, and they did': social influence among siblings with Li-Fraumeni syndrome.","authors":"Chloe O Huelsnitz, Allison Werner-Lin, Ashley S Thompson, Camella J Rising, Rowan Forbes Shepherd, Jennifer L Young, Mark H Greene, Payal P Khincha","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2025.2534814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2025.2534814","url":null,"abstract":"Objectives: Health-related social influence refers to individual efforts to change another person's health beliefs and/or behavior. We sought to understand perspectives on social influence among adult siblings in families with an inherited cancer syndrome, Li-Fraumeni Syndrome (LFS).Design: An interprofessional team conducted 16 semi-structured interviews with sibling groups (n = 29, aged 18-66, 2-3 siblings per group) enrolled in the NCI's LFS Study.Main outcome measures: A semi-structured interview guide included questions targeting family closeness, information sharing, and perspectives on screening and cancer care. The research team collaboratively conducted thematic analysis on verbatim transcripts.Results: Participants reported attempts to influence their siblings' thoughts or behavior regarding LFS-related genetic testing and cancer screening, prevention, and treatment. Some participants expressed respect for sibling autonomy regarding risk management decisions. Others reported explicit attempts to change their siblings' perspective or behavior due to concern for their siblings' health.Conclusion: Findings suggest participants believed their influence meaningfully affected siblings' LFS risk management, indicating such influence comprises a social intervention pathway with potential to increase cascade testing and to support risk management. However, for some siblings, such efforts incurred risk of relational conflict. Future research might aim to help adult siblings balance social influence strategies with relational maintenance behaviors.","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-22"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144691341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Follow-up study of benefit finding in multiple sclerosis and health-related quality of life. The effect of anxiety and emotion-focused coping strategies. 多发性硬化症与健康相关生活质量的随访研究焦虑与情绪聚焦应对策略的影响。

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Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2025-07-17 DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2025.2527072

Verónica Sarabia-Montaño, Silvia Ubillos-Landa, José Luis González-Castro

{"title":"Follow-up study of benefit finding in multiple sclerosis and health-related quality of life. The effect of anxiety and emotion-focused coping strategies.","authors":"Verónica Sarabia-Montaño, Silvia Ubillos-Landa, José Luis González-Castro","doi":"10.1080/08870446.2025.2527072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2025.2527072","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurological disease that causes major disability and has a negative impact on health-related quality of life (HRQoL). However, benefit finding even when suffering uncontrollable and unpredictable diseases such as MS has been associated with adjustment perhaps because of its relationship with more frequent use of emotion-focused coping strategies (CS). Therefore, using a two-time-point follow-up design, this study analysed the processes (use of emotion-focused CS in time 1 and anxiety in time 2) through which searching for benefits linked to MS at time 1 was associated with HRQoL at time 2.Methods and measures: The sample comprised 72 Spanish adults diagnosed with MS who answered a survey with a 3 and half year time lapse.Results: A multiple sequential mediation shows no direct relationship between benefit finding and HRQoL; however, benefit finding was indirectly associated with greater HRQoL using emotion-focused CS such as seeking emotional support and acceptance at time 1, strategies that reduce anxiety at time 2.Conclusions: Results suggest the need for intervention programmes designed to enhance the search for benefits linked to the disease and include certain emotion-focused CS to improve mental health and HRQoL among people diagnosed with MS.","PeriodicalId":20718,"journal":{"name":"Psychology & Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144660018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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