Applied Research in Quality of Life最新文献

{"title":"School Climate and Children’s Subjective Well-Being: The Multiple Mediation Effect of School Violence Exposure and School Satisfaction","authors":"Shan Jiang,&nbsp;Lin Wang,&nbsp;Ziyi Dong","doi":"10.1007/s11482-025-10471-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11482-025-10471-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Recent research has focused on school-related factors on subjective well-being among children. This study aimed to examine the multiple mediation effect of school violence exposure and school satisfaction between school climate and children’s subjective well-being. A sample of 93,344 children (Mage = 10.95, 49.3% were boys) from 35 countries or regions completed measures. This study employed a serial multiple mediation model. Results indicated that school climate was positively associated with children’s subjective well-being. Additionally, a higher level of school climate was associated with a lower level of school violence exposure, which in turn, was associated with a higher level of school satisfaction, thereby contributing to a higher level of subjective well-being. Limitations, theoretical, and practical implications of the study were discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"20 3","pages":"1273 - 1288"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145171908","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":"Resilience and Mental Health in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Testing the Moderation Model of Physical Activity and Religiosity","authors":"Leandro da Silva-Sauer,&nbsp;Maianna Costa-Fernandes,&nbsp;Breno de Oliveira Ferreira,&nbsp;Bernardino Fernández-Calvo","doi":"10.1007/s11482-025-10470-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11482-025-10470-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This cross-sectional study examined the role of resilience in influencing mental health (MH) among community-dwelling older adults, specifically testing a moderation model that incorporates physical activity (PA) and religiosity. The study included 1001 older adults (mean age 68.6 years, SD = 6.9) living in the Northeast region of Brazil. Based on the biopsychospiritual homeostasis model, we aimed to analyze a moderated moderation model to examine the interaction between resilience, religiosity, and PA in relation to MH. We assessed MH using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), measured resilience with the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS), and evaluated PA and religiosity, with perceived stress (PSS), gender, age, race, and years of education included as covariates in the model. Results indicated that resilience positively impacted MH. Additionally, the moderation model revealed that PA and religiosity jointly influenced the relationship between resilience and MH. Specifically, higher resilience was associated with better MH, and this association was further enhanced by engaging in PA three or more times a week and by higher levels of religiosity. Older adults with high resilience who did not engage in PA still experienced significant MH benefits. These findings highlight the importance of resilience in MH and demonstrate how PA and religiosity can moderate its effects, informing mental health promotion strategies for older adults.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"20 3","pages":"1257 - 1272"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11482-025-10470-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145171904","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":"Are Children's Self-Reports and Proxy-Reports of Health Utility Agreed? A School-Based Study in China using the EQ-5D-Y and CHU-9D","authors":"Yan Li,&nbsp;Yanqiu Chen,&nbsp;Jize Sun,&nbsp;Mingyu Jiang,&nbsp;Aixia Ma,&nbsp;Xuejing Jin,&nbsp;Pingyu Chen","doi":"10.1007/s11482-025-10463-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11482-025-10463-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Objective: This study investigated a general Chinese child population aged 7–8 years with the EuroQol 5-Dimension Youth Version (EQ-5D-Y) and Child Health Utility 9D (CHU-9D) instruments, aiming to examine the agreement between self-reports and proxy-reports across various dimensions and overall health utility values, as well as to explore potential factors that may affect the agreement and utility values. Methods: Data were collected from second-grade students aged 7–8 in four schools in Guangxi and Guizhou provinces, China. Children and their proxies independently completed their respective versions of the questionnaires, including the EQ-5D-Y, the CHU-9D, and other socio-demographic information. The agreement between self-reports and proxy-reports in various dimensions was assessed using agreement rate and Adjusted Consistency (AC) value. Bland–Altman (BA) plots and Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) were utilized to analyze the agreement of utility values. Subgroup analyses of ICC and multiple linear regression analysis were conducted to explore factors influencing the agreement between self-reports and proxy-reports. Results: A total of 369 pairs of valid questionnaires were collected from both children and proxies. The AC values for various dimensions showed good agreement between children and proxies for physical function dimensions, but poorer agreement for subjective social and psychological function dimensions. BA plots revealed significant overestimation of children's utility values by both EQ-5D-Y and CHU-9D proxy-reports compared to self-reports. The ICC values for self-reported and proxy-reported utilities were 0.130 for the EQ-5D-Y and 0.295 for the CHU-9D. Subgroup analysis revealed that mothers had higher ICC values and better agreement with children compared to fathers. Moreover, children's health conditions, parental marital status, and family's highest education level impacted agreement results. Conclusions: For the general child population aged 7–8 years in China, the agreement between self-reported and proxy-reported utilities is weak, particularly in subjective social and psychological dimensions, with proxy-reports significantly overestimating children's utility values compared to self-reports. Self-reports and proxy-reports of health utility should be considered complementary rather than interchangeable. The findings provide valuable insights and references for the development of guidelines for self-reports and proxy-reports of children's utility instruments.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"20 3","pages":"1221 - 1241"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145170104","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":"Childhood Trauma and Mobile Phone Addition Among Depressed Adolescents: A Moderated Mediation Model","authors":"Liang Liu,&nbsp;Fazhan Chen,&nbsp;Yongjie Zhou,&nbsp;Qianqian He","doi":"10.1007/s11482-025-10469-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11482-025-10469-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This cross-sectional study explored how childhood trauma affect mobile phone addiction (MPA) in adolescents with depression through alexithymia and coping styles. 2268 adolescent participants aging from 12 to 18 who were diagnosed with depression were recruited in China. A moderated mediation model was constructed to examine the role of alexithymia and coping styles in the relationship between childhood trauma and MPA. 2239 patients completed the questionnaires in the study. Childhood trauma was found to be positively related to alexithymia and MPA. Alexithymia was positively related to MPA, and played a partial mediating role in the relationship between childhood trauma and MPA. In addition, problem-focused coping had a negative effect on alexithymia, and there was a positive relationship between childhood trauma and alexithymia when problem-focused coping at the high level. Adolescents who experienced childhood trauma tend to have high probability of MPA. Alexithymia and problem-focused coping styles played a mediating role in the relationship between childhood trauma and MPA. This provided treatment guidance of MPA by avoiding traumatic experiences when childhood and encouraging adolescents to adopt problem-focused coping style to solve problems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"20 3","pages":"1243 - 1256"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145170103","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":"Meaning in Life Across Life Stages: Pathways from Uncertainty to Subjective Well-being","authors":"Kıvanç Uzun,&nbsp;Gökmen Arslan","doi":"10.1007/s11482-025-10461-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11482-025-10461-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study aimed to examine the mediating role of meaning in life (presence of meaning and search for meaning) in the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and subjective well-being across different life stages. The research focused on three distinct age groups: emerging adults (18–24 years), young adults (25–44 years), and middle-aged adults (45–65 years). A total of 1155 participants (672 female, 483 male) from Türkiye participated in the study. Structural equation modeling was used to test the mediating role of meaning in life in the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and subjective well-being. The findings revealed that the presence of meaning positively predicted subjective well-being, while the search for meaning negatively predicted it. Intolerance of uncertainty decreased the presence of meaning while increasing the search for meaning. These effects varied significantly across life stages. The presence of meaning played a stronger role in mediating model in older individuals, whereas the search for meaning was a more influential factor among young adults. The results provide valuable insights into how the impact of meaning in life on subjective well-being evolves across developmental stages. By addressing the relationship between uncertainty and well-being within the context of life stages, these findings contribute to understanding the individual and social functions of meaning in life within Turkish culture.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"20 3","pages":"1197 - 1220"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11482-025-10461-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145171084","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":"Development and Validation of the State of Meaning in Life (SoMIL) Scale among Chinese Adolescents","authors":"Yumei Li,&nbsp;Nan Chen,&nbsp;Sylvia Y. C. L. Kwok","doi":"10.1007/s11482-025-10455-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11482-025-10455-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Meaning in life is a complex, multistate, and multicomponent construct, yet existing measures often focus on either states or components without fully capturing both dimensions. Additionally, the applicability of these tools to adolescent populations remains limited. This study first tested the six-state and four-component structures of meaning in life in a sample of 742 Chinese adolescents (347 males; Mean age = 15.39, SD = 1.68, aged 12 to 19). Exploratory structural equation modeling revealed a good fit for both structures. Based on these findings, a 24-item State of Meaning in Life (SoMIL) Scale was developed, incorporating the 6 × 4 state-component structure. A second sample of 668 adolescents (302 males, Mean age = 15.14, SD = 0.49, aged 12 to 18) was used to validate the scale’s structural validity, measurement invariance, internal consistency, and external validity. Results confirmed the SoMIL Scale’s robust psychometric properties, demonstrating its reliability and validity. Furthermore, the scale showed significant associations with quality of life, depression, and anxiety, highlighting its relevance for assessing meaning in life in relation to key psychological outcomes. This research provides a comprehensive, reliable tool for assessing meaning in life in adolescents, underscoring the importance of incorporating both states and components in future assessments, particularly in the context of mental health among adolescents.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"20 3","pages":"1163 - 1196"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145168443","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":"Private Life Preference and Life Satisfaction:","authors":"Klaus Birkelbach,&nbsp;Heiner Meulemann,&nbsp;Christian Sondergeld,&nbsp;Veronika Witt","doi":"10.1007/s11482-025-10445-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11482-025-10445-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Life satisfaction should be analysed focussing on the institutionalized occupational and private life, on preferences, and on the life course and controlling for life success. To do so, four hypotheses are tested. (1) Private life preference affects private life satisfaction positively, and occupational life satisfaction negatively. (2) Private life preference is affected by private life satisfaction positively, and occupational life satisfaction negatively. (3) Both satisfactions and private life preference are stable over the life course. (4) In each domain, success affects satisfaction positively. The sample consists of – socially selected – German high school students at age 16 which have been re-interviewed at age 30, 43, 56, and 66. Among the 1013 permanent respondents, the hypotheses are investigated by structural equation models with random effects. Hypothesis (1) and (2) are confirmed for occupational life, yet not for private life. Hypothesis (3) is confirmed throughout. Hypothesis (4) is confirmed for occupational life, but only partly for private life. Paradoxically, the everyday prominence of private life excludes its determination by the preference for it.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"20 3","pages":"1139 - 1162"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11482-025-10445-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145168442","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":"Seeds of Hope: Cross-National Analysis of Childhood Predictors of Hope in 22 Countries","authors":"Victor Counted,&nbsp;Katelyn N. G. Long,&nbsp;Richard G. Cowden,&nbsp;Charlotte V. O. Witvliet,&nbsp;Cristina Gibson,&nbsp;Alicia Cortright,&nbsp;James Walsh,&nbsp;Emily Purcell,&nbsp;Fernando Garzon,&nbsp;William Hathaway,&nbsp;Byron R. Johnson,&nbsp;Tyler J. VanderWeele","doi":"10.1007/s11482-025-10450-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11482-025-10450-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates childhood predictors of adult hope across 22 countries, leveraging data from 202,898 participants in the Global Flourishing Study. Key findings indicate that positive childhood experiences, such as excellent or very good health, supportive parental relationships, and regular religious attendance, are strongly associated with higher levels of hope in adulthood. Conversely, negative experiences like abuse and feeling like an outsider during childhood are linked to lower levels of hope. In many countries, excellent self-rated health during childhood emerged as a strong predictor of future hope (β = 0.48, 95% CI: 0.31, 0.65), whereas experiences of abuse correlated with lower hope levels (β = -0.16, 95% CI: -0.22, -0.10). The association between attending religious services during childhood and future hope showed notable variation in effect sizes across countries, with weekly childhood attendance in Sweden demonstrating a significant increase in hope (β = 0.36, 95% CI: 0.17, 0.54) on weekly attendance, while Indonesia also showed a significant but smaller increase (β = 0.18, 95% CI: -0.04, 0.40), with Argentina showing essentially no association (β = 0.03, 95% CI: -0.13, 0.20). The impact of parental relationships varied, with notable differences observed in countries like Germany and India. These associations were robust to potential confounding, as indicated by sensitivity analyses using E-values. This cross-national study underscores the potential role of early life experiences in shaping hope, offering valuable benchmarks for future research and interventions aimed at fostering hope from a young age in diverse cultural contexts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"20 3","pages":"1111 - 1137"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12328542/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144818165","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":"The Paradox of Parental Workaholism: How Incongruence Promotes Student Engagement and Congruence Reduces Student Engagement","authors":"Lei Lu,&nbsp;Boya Yuan,&nbsp;Xiaoxiao Gao","doi":"10.1007/s11482-025-10460-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11482-025-10460-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study aims to explore why and how parental workaholism can induce students’ learning engagement, focusing on the family systems of parents and students. Drawing on conservation of resources theory and social learning theory-modelling effect, we investigate the (in)congruence effect of fathers’ and mothers’ workaholism on students’ learning engagement. Using a sample of 475 students and their parents from 11 high schools in China, data were collected at three-time points. This study used structural equation modelling, polynomial regression analysis, and response surface methodology for data analysis. As anticipated, student psychological availability and subsequent learning engagement were enhanced when parents exhibited greater divergence in workaholism levels but suffered when both parents’ workaholism were more aligned. This study highlights the potential adverse effects of dual-parent workaholism and expands the theoretical insights into family influences on student engagement. Implications for practice and future research are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"20 3","pages":"1085 - 1110"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145165319","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":"Childhood Predictors of Dispositional Forgivingness in Adulthood: A Cross-National Analysis with 22 Countries","authors":"Richard G. Cowden,&nbsp;Everett L. Worthington Jr.,&nbsp;Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska,&nbsp;George Yancey,&nbsp;Charlotte V. O. Witvliet,&nbsp;Koichiro Shiba,&nbsp;R. Noah Padgett,&nbsp;Matt Bradshaw,&nbsp;Byron R. Johnson,&nbsp;Tyler J. VanderWeele","doi":"10.1007/s11482-025-10451-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11482-025-10451-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A robust body of empirical evidence suggests that forgiveness of others is positively related to individual wellbeing. However, less empirical work has been done to identify the factors that may help children not only forgive better during childhood but also develop into adults who practice forgiveness more consistently. To support a population health agenda aimed at the promotion of forgiveness, further research is needed to identify potential determinants of forgiveness. In this preregistered study, we used the first wave of nationally representative data from 22 countries included in the Global Flourishing Study (<i>N</i> = 202,898) to explore associations of 13 individual characteristics and retrospectively assessed childhood factors with dispositional forgivingness in adulthood. We estimated country-level modified Poisson models in which forgivingness was regressed on all candidate predictors, and then aggregated results for the 11 predictors that were common across countries using a random effects meta-analysis. Risk ratios from the meta-analyses showed that a combination of individual characteristics (e.g., older birth cohort, female gender), early life conditions or experiences (e.g., more frequent religious service attendance, better health, more secure family financial status), and social circumstances or influences when growing up (e.g., higher quality maternal and paternal relationships) were associated with a higher likelihood of forgivingness in adulthood. Associations were somewhat heterogeneous across the countries. Our findings suggest that childhood may be important in shaping forgivingness in adulthood and provide some potential foci for population-level interventions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51483,"journal":{"name":"Applied Research in Quality of Life","volume":"20 3","pages":"1057 - 1084"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12328535/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144818164","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}