Applied Research in Quality of Life最新文献

{"title":"Parentification as a Bridge Between Childhood Family Poverty and Time Poverty Among Chinese University Students: A Conservation of Resources Perspective","authors":"Runjia Zhang,&nbsp;Zheng Zhang,&nbsp;Ao Liu,&nbsp;Yangxinyu Yan,&nbsp;Chuantao Zhou,&nbsp;Xintian Hong,&nbsp;Yizhang Xia,&nbsp;Zhaoyang Xie,&nbsp;Yuanyuan Wang","doi":"10.1007/s11482-025-10543-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11482-025-10543-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study, grounded in the Conservation of Resources (COR) theory, examines how cumulative childhood family poverty contributes to time poverty among Chinese university students and how these disadvantages jointly affect developmental outcomes. Using data from 2,996 university students (55.27% female students; mean age = 18.42, SD = 0.97), we applied a cumulative risk model with five indicators of childhood poverty and conducted structural equation modeling. Results showed that greater childhood poverty risk was associated with higher time poverty, with parentification, but not part-time employment, serving as a key mediator. Both childhood poverty and time poverty were associated with poorer career clarity, unhealthy diets, and lower self-rated health; time poverty also predicted less frequent exercise. Gender-stratified models revealed that female students faced stronger links between childhood poverty and part-time work, and a sharper decline in physical activity under time pressure. These findings extend COR theory by identifying time poverty as a critical pathway of resource loss. Interventions such as flexible on-campus jobs, support for caregiving burdens, and attention to time equity in education policy may help mitigate intergenerational disadvantage, especially among female students.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"21 2","pages":"695 - 728"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147571168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"When the Economy Breaks Down, Do Marriages Follow? Crisis Type and Family Dissolution across 83 Countries (1990–2019)","authors":"Chunlan Guo,&nbsp;Jeremy Ko,&nbsp;Xiaoxian Chen,&nbsp;Chun Kai Leung","doi":"10.1007/s11482-025-10540-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11482-025-10540-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study examines how different types of national economic crises—banking, currency, and debt—affect divorce rates across 83 countries from 1990 to 2019. While previous research has largely focused on individual-level financial stressors or single-country analyses, this study employs a cross-national time-series panel approach to uncover how macroeconomic disruptions influence marital dissolution. Findings reveal that banking and currency crises are associated with short- to medium-term increases in divorce rates, while debt crises consistently correlate with reduced divorce rates. These effects persist even after accounting for economic development, social globalization, gender inequality, and other structural covariates. The results provide insights into the macro-structural determinants of family stability and have implications for crisis-specific policy responses to support family well-being during periods of financial disruption.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"21 2","pages":"615 - 641"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11482-025-10540-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147571267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Perceived Economic Hardship and Adolescent Short-form Video Addiction: A Longitudinal Moderated Mediation Model","authors":"Mengru Guo,&nbsp;Xiaoyu Li,&nbsp;Wang Zheng,&nbsp;Mengzhen Zhao,&nbsp;Chi Yang,&nbsp;Wenqing Li,&nbsp;Zihao Wan,&nbsp;Yinqiu Zhao","doi":"10.1007/s11482-025-10539-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11482-025-10539-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Previous studies have shown positive associations between economic hardship and technological addictions (i.e., internet addiction and smartphone addiction) among adolescents. However, the risk factors and psychological mechanisms may differ for specific mobile application addictions, and this possibility remains unexplored in the context of short-form video addiction. This study thus aimed to investigate the longitudinal association between perceived economic hardship and short-form video addiction among Chinese adolescents and to examine the mediating role of internalizing problems and externalizing problems as well as the moderating role of belief in a just world. A total of 1319 adolescents (53.4% female; <i>M</i>_age = 16.18) from three high schools in eastern China participated in a three-wave (called T1, T2 and T3) longitudinal study across six months. Results showed that T1 perceived economic hardship was positively associated with T3 short-form video addiction six months later. Results from longitudinal path analysis showed that T2 internalizing problems and T2 externalizing problems both mediated this association, and T1 belief in a just world mitigated the association between T1 perceived economic hardship and T3 short-form video addiction. The results further showed that the indirect effect of T1 perceived economic hardship on T3 short-form video addiction via T2 internalizing problems and T2 externalizing problems was significant only in adolescents with lower levels of T1 belief in a just world. Interventions targeting economic hardship and belief in a just world may be important in addressing short-form video addiction.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"21 2","pages":"595 - 614"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147571163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial: Geography of Happiness and Well-being","authors":"Martijn J. Burger,&nbsp;Karima Kourtit,&nbsp;Peter Nijkamp","doi":"10.1007/s11482-026-10547-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11482-026-10547-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"21 1","pages":"1 - 7"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147341049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Informal Caregiving for Elderly or Disabled in the Families and Caregivers’ Subjective, Affective, and Financial Well-Being: Findings from Fifteen Waves of an Australian Population-Based Panel Study","authors":"Rezwanul Rana,&nbsp;Syed Afroz Keramat,&nbsp;Henry Cutler,&nbsp;Tracy Comans","doi":"10.1007/s11482-025-10542-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11482-025-10542-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The demanding tasks of caregiving can lead to stress for caregivers, harming their physical, psychological, and social well-being. We investigated the association between informal caregiving and caregivers’ subjective, affective, and financial well-being in Australia. We have employed the ‘Theory of Caregiver Stress’ to understand caregiver burden from a theoretical lens. We used data from fifteen waves (waves 6 through 20) of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. We constructed an unbalanced panel consisting of 192,104 person-year observations from 26,666 unique individuals. We fitted both fixed-effects ordered logistic regression model (subjective and financial well-being) and fixed-effects GLS regression model (affective well-being) to estimate the association between informal caregiving and caregivers’ well-being according to the type of dependent variable. Moderate (− 0.09 points) and intensive caregiving (− 0.39 points) were significantly associated with a reduction in caregivers’ subjective well-being. Moderate (− 0.77 points) and intensive caregiving (− 2.09 points) were associated with reduced affective well-being. Light (− 0.07 points), moderate (− 0.11 points), and intensive caregiving (− 0.14 points) were also negatively associated with financial well-being. Our analysis provided evidence that adverse and positive life events (contextual stimuli) have a significant association with caregivers’ well-being. A higher caregiver burden (focal stimuli) was associated with lower subjective, affective, and financial well-being for informal caregivers in Australia. These findings highlight the association between significant caregiving burden and adverse well-being outcomes for caregivers. This underscores the need for increased government support for caregivers facing a heavy carer load to potentially reduce the negative association between caring and carer well-being.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"21 2","pages":"659 - 694"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11482-025-10542-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147571167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Less Income and Work, Less Well-being? Evidence on the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Well-being from the Gallup World Poll","authors":"Paola Ochoa Pacheco,&nbsp;David Coello-Montecel,&nbsp;Michelle Tello","doi":"10.1007/s11482-025-10534-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11482-025-10534-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Covid-19 pandemic profoundly impacted global well-being, heightening anxiety and economic instability. In Latin America, and particularly Ecuador, economic fragility and limited policy responses created an urgent need to understand the pandemic’s socioeconomic consequences. While prior research has explored various aspects of well-being among the Ecuadorian adult population, the effects of pandemic-related changes in the labor sphere on subjective well-being has been less explored. This study addresses this gap using data from the 2020 Gallup World Poll. The sample comprised 788 adults aged 18 to 65. We analyze how job loss and income reduction affected three key subjective well-being indicators: life evaluation, positive affect, and negative affect. Our results show that both income reduction and job loss significantly decreased the likelihood of high life evaluation. Moreover, income reduction was linked to a lower probability of positive affect, while job loss was linked to a higher probability of negative affect. The results also revealed a heterogeneous impact, with individuals in lower-income groups reporting higher levels of negative affect, highlighting how pre-existing economic vulnerability exacerbated the pandemic’s consequences.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"21 2","pages":"545 - 574"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147571218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Core Components and Gender Differences Within Adolescent Mental Well-Being: A Cross-Lagged Panel Network Analysis","authors":"Menghao Ren,&nbsp;Xinyi Han,&nbsp;Yu Xia,&nbsp;Daoqun Ding","doi":"10.1007/s11482-025-10544-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11482-025-10544-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Adolescent mental well-being positively influences physical and psychological development, making it essential to identify its core components for advancing theoretical understanding and designing effective mental well-being improving practices. This study employed cross-lagged panel network (CLPN) analysis to explore the core components within adolescent mental well-being and their gender differences in Chinese context. Using a two-wave longitudinal design with a six-month interval, a total of 2578 adolescents participated in two waves (1422 girls, 1156 boys; T1, <i>M</i>_<i>age</i> = 10.790, <i>SD</i> = 1.266; T2, <i>M</i>_<i>age</i> = 11.229, <i>SD</i> = 1.274) from Sichuan, China. The results revealed that, firstly, <i>feeling cheerful</i> had the highest out Expected Influence (outEI), showing that it was the most influential component in the CLPN. Secondly, <i>feeling relaxed</i> had the highest in Expected Influence (inEI), indicating that it was the component most influenced by other components. Additionally, network comparisons found no significant differences in edge weights between girls and boys, but significant differences were found in the centrality index inEI. Specifically, in girls’ mental well-being CLPN, <i>energy to spare</i> had the highest inEI value, whereas in boys’ mental well-being CLPN, <i>feeling loved</i> had the highest inEI value. These findings offer theoretical implications into adolescent mental well-being, providing practical insights for promoting and improving adolescent mental well-being. Specifically, <i>feeling cheerful</i> could serve as a primary target for enhancing adolescent mental well-being, whereas <i>feeling relaxed</i>, as an easily influenced node, could be used to evaluate practical effectiveness, and considering gender differences can further increase the specificity and precision of related practices.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"21 2","pages":"729 - 753"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147571213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bidirectional Relations Between Loneliness and Generalized Anxiety Symptoms in Adolescents: A Cross-Lagged Panel Network Analysis","authors":"Hui Zhou,&nbsp;Weilong Xiao,&nbsp;Feng Zhu,&nbsp;Hanyu Liang","doi":"10.1007/s11482-025-10538-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11482-025-10538-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Conventional longitudinal and cross-sectional network analyses have produced inconsistent conclusions regarding the relationship between loneliness and anxiety. However, cross-lagged panel network analysis offers a clearer framework for understanding how these symptoms develop over time. The present study utilized a cross-lagged panel network approach to analyze the longitudinal network associations between loneliness and anxiety in non-clinical adolescents. A total of 816 Chinese adolescents (77.30% female; <i>M</i>age = 16.89, <i>SD</i> = 0.72) were followed over six months. Loneliness and anxiety were measured using the short-form UCLA and the GAD-7, respectively. Results indicated a notable decline in reported loneliness between T1 and T2, with no significant change in anxiety. Loneliness predicted anxiety, whereas anxiety did not predict loneliness. “Yearning for Company” was the most significant predictor of other symptoms, while “Socially Engaged” minimally influenced loneliness and anxiety. These findings suggest that interventions aimed at reducing loneliness, particularly by addressing adolescents’ “yearning for company”, could play a key role in mitigating anxiety and enhancing overall mental well-being in this population. Unlike prior work that has predominantly focused on social anxiety, this study centers on generalized anxiety, a broader and comparatively underexplored form of anxiety that is highly relevant to adolescent development, thereby extending understanding of loneliness–anxiety comorbidity in Chinese adolescents.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"21 2","pages":"575 - 593"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147571219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluation of the Strengths-Based Identity Transition Interventions: A Two-Year One-Group Pretest–Posttest Study on Establishing Sustainable Well-being Among Freshmen","authors":"Wenjie Duan,&nbsp;Rong Liu,&nbsp;Yu Zhang,&nbsp;Yuan Hao,&nbsp;Chunxiu Zheng,&nbsp;Bing Hu","doi":"10.1007/s11482-025-10530-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11482-025-10530-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p> Background: Maladaptive responses during the university transition period constitute critical factors for a series of physical and mental problems among freshmen. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of Strengths-based Identity Transition Interventions in helping freshmen establish sustainable well-being, that is, in promoting college adaptation, improving mental health efficacy, and reducing negative emotional states, during the college transition. Method: The research was conducted in two phases. In phase one, a five-week, one session per week intervention was implemented. Five independent samples were recruited to conduct paired-sample t-test to validate effective activities within intervention. In phase two, the refined intervention consisting of three effective activities was assessed on a campus-wide scale. Results: The study indicates that the college adaptation of freshmen was significantly enhanced and maintained at a high level over the subsequent two years. Mental health efficacy also showed a marked improvement, despite some fluctuation during this period, the overall mental health efficacy remained superior to baseline. However, the intervention did not significantly improve negative emotional states. Discussion: This study attempts to integrate the strengths perspective and the “Groups 4 Freshmen” framework to develop an empirically supported intervention. It provides school social workers and educators with effective approaches for preventing and intervening in students’ college adaptation and mental health issues.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"21 2","pages":"437 - 467"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147571230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing validity and reliability of the Positive Health and Individual Recovery Outcomes Counter questionnaires for measuring self-reported changes in Positive Health","authors":"Vera P. van Druten,&nbsp;Babette C. van der Zwaard,&nbsp;Margot J. Metz,&nbsp;Dike van de Mheen,&nbsp;Esther de Vries,&nbsp;Lenny M.W. Nahar-van Venrooij","doi":"10.1007/s11482-025-10521-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11482-025-10521-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Positive Health is gaining attention for measurement purposes. In this study, the 17-items Positive Health (PH17) questionnaire and the 12-items Individual Recovery Outcomes Counter (I.ROC12) questionnaire were investigated on usefulness for measuring self-reported changes in Positive Health. An observational study was performed in a Dutch post-covid-19 patient population to assess test-retest reliability (intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), standard error of measurement (SEM), and smallest detectable change (SDC)), internal consistency and construct validity by hypothesis testing. PH17, I.ROC12 and – for comparison – EQ5D-VAS were completed at six (T6) and twelve (T12) months after hospital discharge and again within 5 days after T12 (retest). For PH17, test-retest reliability was good for five factors and the total score (ICC &gt;0.7, SEM &lt;10%), but not for the factor Future perspective (ICC 0.56). Internal consistency was too high for three factors (Physical fitness, Contentment, and Mental functioning, Cronbach’s alpha &gt;0.9 and too low for the factor Future perspective (&lt;0.59). For I.ROC12, reliability (ICC &gt;0.9, SEM &lt;10%) and internal consistency (0.7-0.9) were better than for PH17. Hypothesised coherences between the PH17 and I.ROC12 were confirmed indicating they cover similar Positive Health aspects. Coherence with the EQ5D-VAS also exists, but not for I.ROC12 on the change score. Both PH17 and I.ROC12 are reliable for measuring population-level change; I.ROC12 can also measure changes among individuals. Based on internal consistency, the I.ROC12 might be a better alternative to the PH17. The instrument choice should depend on the setting and measurement purpose such as for populations or individuals.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"21 2","pages":"413 - 435"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11482-025-10521-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147571271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}