Differences in self-assessment of health and psychological wellbeing between healthy and unhealthy young adults

Корниенко, Д. С.; Козлов, А. И.; Отавина, М. Л.

doi:10.18821/0016-9900-2016-95-6-577-581

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“…An important aspect of this model is that chronic diseases are an influential reducing factor in both academic adaptation and adaptive potential. This finding is fairly well represented in clinical psychology studies [ 28 , 46 ]. Finally, the model confirmed the orientation of the relationship from family income to life satisfaction and experiencing happiness, which is consistent with studies reporting that income is a subjective well-being factor in poor countries [ 55 , 56 ].…”

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confidence: 68%

“…This means that students with chronic diseases, alongside healthy students, fulfill their relationships in society and, due to this, they can compensate for a number of objective difficulties associated with learning and fulfilling other needs that they have. Despite, for some researchers, subjective health being a more important indicator of well-being [ 46 ], we state that students with chronic diseases are characterized by less-manifested subjective well-being. Overall satisfaction with life and its various aspects is an important indicator of adaptation, including academic adaptation.…”

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confidence: 86%

“…Recent studies [ 46 ] showed that presence of a chronic disease not only negatively influences self-esteem with one’s physical and psychological state, but also negatively influences subjective well-being as a whole. Researchers identified the relationship between subjectively perceived health and subjective well-being.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Characteristics of Academic Adaptation and Subjective Well-Being in University Students with Chronic Diseases

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Studying academic adaptation and subjective well-being in students with chronic diseases can help to explain psychological compensatory mechanisms and help with the development of socio-psychological support programs. It is supposed that the defining role is played by general adaptive potential, and the presence of chronic diseases results in variations in academic adaptation, which, alongside other variables, acts as a predictor of subjective well-being and satisfaction of basic needs. The sample consisted of first-year university students aged 17–26 years (mean = 19.6, SD = 2.8, 18.4% male; n = 419 persons, of which 34.8% with chronic diseases of various etiologies). To evaluate the components of students’ academic adaptation, we used the Academic Adaptation Scale; general adaptive potential was measured using the Multilevel Personal Adaptability Questionnaire; to evaluate subjective well-being, we used the Subjective Well-Being Scale; and satisfaction using the Life Scale. Satisfaction of basic needs was defined with the Basic Needs Satisfaction in General Scale. Students with chronic diseases demonstrated lower manifested adaptive potential, general markers of academic adaptation, subjective well-being, and satisfaction of basic psychological needs. The results showed that interrelations between various markers in students are largely mediated by academic adaptation and adaptive potential. Thus, the interconnection between adaptive potential and satisfaction of basic needs is significantly mediated by students’ academic adaptation, whereas the interconnection between chronic diseases and academic adaptation is mediated by adaptive potential. In other words, the findings support the assumption regarding the significant mediating role of these variables in subjective well-being. Cognitive, motivational, and communicative components of academic adaptation can serve as compensatory factors for experiencing subjective well-being in students with chronic diseases.

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Characteristics of Academic Adaptation and Subjective Well-Being in University Students with Chronic Diseases

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“…There is a considerable amount of epidemiological evidence that people with chronic physical conditions have poorer psychological well-being than healthy individuals (Australian Bureau of Statistics [ABS], 2012a). This association has been found in adolescents (Santos et al, 2015), young adults (Kornienko et al, 2016) and older adults (Cho et al, 2011;Pruchno et al, 2016), and appears stronger in those with multiple chronic health conditions (Shih & Simon, 2008). Specifically, diseases such as cardiovascular disease (Boehm & Kubzansky, 2012;Gerber et al, 2018;Rumsfeld et al, 2003;, diabetes (De Jonge et al, 2014;Selvaraj et al, 2015;Wändell et al, 1997;Wiltink et al, 2011), respiratory conditions (Alonso et al, 2014;Goodwin et al, 2004;Scott et al, 2016), gastrointestinal conditions (Engstrom, 1999;Stewart & Berry, 1989) and chronic pain conditions (Benjamin et al, 2000) have all been found to be linked to poor psychological well-being globally.…”

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confidence: 98%

The Association Between Chronic Disease and Psychological Distress: An Australian Twin Study

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There is a commonly observed association between chronic disease and psychological distress, but many potential factors could confound this association. This study investigated the association using a powerful twin study design that can control for unmeasured confounders that are shared between twins, including genetic and environmental factors. We used twin-paired cross-sectional data from the Adult Health and Lifestyle Questionnaire collected by Twins Research Australia from 2014 to 2017. Linear regression models fitted using maximum likelihood estimations (MLE) were used to test the association between self-reported chronic disease status and psychological distress, measured by the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K6). When comparing between twin pairs, having any chronic disease was associated with a 1.29 increase in K6 (95% CI: 0.91, 1.66; p < .001). When comparing twins within a pair, having any chronic disease was associated with a 0.36 increase in K6 (95% CI: 0.002, 0.71; p = .049). This within-pair estimate is of most interest as comparing twins within a pair naturally controls for shared factors such as genes, age and shared lived experiences. Whereas the between-pair estimate does not. The weaker effect found within pairs tells us that genetic and environmental factors shared between twins confounds the relationship between chronic disease and psychological distress. This suggests that associations found in unrelated samples may show exaggerated estimates.

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“…The latter can go through academic adaptation in a peculiar way due to their psychophysiological characteristics. Thus, for people with chronic diseases, a decrease in endurance is characteristic, which has a global impact on both physical and cognitive functions [23], originality of the emotional sphere with the actualization of anxiety [24], selfesteem [25] and other features. On the other hand, it would be rash to believe that the development and adaptation opportunities of people with chronic diseases are definitely lower than those of conventionally healthy people.…”

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Correlation of academic adaptation and commitment to social activity in university students with chronic diseases

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Adaptation of students with chronic diseases to the university educational environment is an important challenge in keeping with the equal opportunity strategy. This process is fraught not only with difficulties, but also with those opportunities that can be created within the framework of the versatile social activity of students. The aim of the research is to study the correlation between academic adaptation and adherence to various forms of social activities in students with chronic diseases and those without health limitations. The study involved 419 full-time students. We used an original questionnaire aimed at identifying socio-demographic characteristics, a methodology for assessing the components of academic adaptation and a scale of commitment to various forms of social activities. Our research revealed differences in adherence to the forms of social activities. We identified multiple linkages between academic adaptation and Internet cognitive, educational and socio-political forms of activities among students with chronic diseases, as well as linkages between leisure, civic, educational, protest, radical protest and subcultural forms of activities among students without chronic diseases. We found specificity in predicting academic adaptation in students' commitment to certain forms of social activities. We offer recommendations for psychological and pedagogical support of academic adaptation to students with chronic diseases.

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Differences in self-assessment of health and psychological wellbeing between healthy and unhealthy young adults

Cited by 8 publications

References 5 publications

Characteristics of Academic Adaptation and Subjective Well-Being in University Students with Chronic Diseases

Characteristics of Academic Adaptation and Subjective Well-Being in University Students with Chronic Diseases

The Association Between Chronic Disease and Psychological Distress: An Australian Twin Study

Correlation of academic adaptation and commitment to social activity in university students with chronic diseases

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