Consistency of prediction across generation: explaining quality of life by family functioning and health-promoting behaviors

Abstract

Our results showed that family functioning and health-promoting behaviors are consistent predictors of quality of life across generations.

<p>Family Functioning and Life Satisfaction: The Mediatory Role of Emotional Intelligence</p>

“…According to these results, a secure relationship with their parents contributes positively to quality of life across generations. 19 In this context, the first goal of our study was to verify whether having a balanced relationship with one's own family of origin would be positively associated with life satisfaction and, conversely, whether experiencing an unbalanced relationship would be linked negatively to life satisfaction.…”

“…Finally, besides studies showing a direct relationship between family functioning and life satisfaction, there is some evidence that there can also be an indirect effect of family functioning on life satisfaction through healthpromoting behaviors, 19 personal growth, 31 romantic attachment, 32 stress resistance, 31 savoring positive experiences, 33 positive coping styles, and perceived social support. 34 Although there are no studies specifically targeting emotional intelligence and its role in the relationship between family functioning and life satisfaction, the existing literature suggests that such an effect is plausible.…”

“…The rationale for undertaking this type of analysis results from the fact that most of the research on this subject comes from Anglo-Saxon and Western European samples 15 and there is a lack of similar studies in Poland. Moreover, because some researchers postulate that family functioning affects quality of life directly as well as indirectly through some other variables, 19,31 we focused on investigating how emotional intelligence might affect the link between family functioning and life satisfaction, as the character of this relationship has received surprisingly little attention. 36 More precisely, we wanted to test whether there would be a contrast in the mediatory role of emotional intelligence on the effects of positive and negative aspects of family functioning on life satisfaction.…”

Depressive symptoms and quality of life in people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia: An exploratory study of the potential mediating role of health‐promoting lifestyles

“…For people with mental illness, health‐promoting lifestyles influences on the psychological and social relationship domains have often been ignored. Health‐promoting behaviors independently predicted QOL 30 . Taiwanese research showed that health‐promoting lifestyle can improve the QOL, which the SA subscale of health‐promotion lifestyle has the greatest impact on the psychological domain of QOL at hospital‐based and community‐based rehabilitation center, 16 but whether there is a significant impact on the depressive symptoms, only Kim et al 31 supported the contribution of SA on depressive symptoms for Korean adults in Dubai.…”

“…Health-promoting behaviors independently predicted QOL. 30 Taiwanese research showed that health-promoting lifestyle can improve the QOL, which the SA subscale of health-promotion lifestyle has the greatest impact on the psychological domain of QOL at hospitalbased and community-based rehabilitation center, 16 but whether there is a significant impact on the depressive symptoms, only Kim et al 31 SA was first proposed by Maslow, who described it as the highest level of need in the theory of "needs hierarchy"; based on the premise that the behavior of an individual is driven by demands and goals, SA has been defined as the process by which an individual pursues innovation with courage, grows, acquires knowledge, and self-develops. 33 According to Maslow, human behavior is driven by a series of basic needs, which depend on two principles: (a) the demand is no longer active: the higher the satisfaction, the less the activity; (b) the demand can be at the level sorting in the structure, so that among all the unmet needs, the lowest demand in the hierarchy will be the most active 34 (Maslow, 1970), and SA can be achieved when all needs, especially the highest ones, are met.…”