Forgiveness and health-related quality of life in older people: Adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies as mediators

Rey, Lourdes; Extremera, Natalio

doi:10.1177/1359105315589393

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“…Health anxiety decreased with increasing adaptive cognitive emotion regulation. These results are consistent with the results of studies performed by Martin and Gitzen (26), Bardeen and Fergus (27), and Rey and Extremera (45). In explaining this finding, it can be stated that individuals who are unable to effectively control and monitor their emotional reactions experience more severe periods of sadness and anxiety that can lead to depression or anxiety (46).…”

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Prediction of Health Anxiety Based on Spiritual Well-being and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies During COVID-19 in Iranian Individuals

Dehghanizadeh

Allame

Eydi-Baygi

2021

Ann Mil Health Sci Res

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Background: Epidemic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and quarantine implementation have had various effects on the psychological aspects of society. One of the psychological effects of COVID-19 is the fear of getting the disease. Objectives: The present study aimed to predict health anxiety based on spiritual well-being and cognitive emotion regulation strategies during COVID-19 in Iranian individuals. Methods: The present descriptive-correlational study was conducted on the statistical population of all 19-to-79-year-old individuals participating in the study online. A total of 545 subjects were selected by the convenience sampling method. These participants completed short-form health anxiety questionnaires, spiritual well-being scales, and short-form emotion regulation strategies online. The data were analyzed by the Pearson correlation coefficient and stepwise regression analysis using SPSS software (version 23). Results: The results showed that health anxiety had a significant negative relationship with spiritual well-being (r = -0.339**) and adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies (r = -0.308**). Furthermore, health anxiety had a significant positive relationship with maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies (r = 0.390**). Overall, the aforementioned three variables explained 26.1% of changes in health anxiety. Conclusions: The results of the present study showed the impacts of spiritual well-being and cognitive emotion regulation strategies on health anxiety. Therefore, it is recommended that training based on spiritual teachings and emotion regulation strategies reduces health anxiety during the outbreak of COVID-19.

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Prediction of Health Anxiety Based on Spiritual Well-being and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies During COVID-19 in Iranian Individuals

Dehghanizadeh

Allame

Eydi-Baygi

2021

Ann Mil Health Sci Res

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“…21 High levels of forgiveness have been found to be associated with high levels of health-related QOL in older people. 22 Gull et al (2013) found that the practice of forgiveness in daily life leads to satisfaction and subjective well-being that leads to a better QOL. 23 A systematic review by Akhtar et al (2016) verified that forgiveness helps reduce depression, anger and hostility, and stress and distress.…”

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Moderating Effects of Forgiveness on Relationship Between Empathy and Health-Related Quality of Life in Hemodialysis Patients: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

Yuan

et al. 2019

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

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Context. Health-related quality of life (QOL) is a recommended clinical tool to assess hemodialysis patients and a primary end point to observe the effectiveness of overall disease management. Empathy is associated with positive outcomes such as pain relief and reduced anxiety and distress. Numerous studies have tested the relationships among empathy, forgiveness, and QOL; however, a mechanism of forgiveness has not been fully explored in hemodialysis patients.Objectives. To test the relationship among empathy and health-related QOL and confirm the moderating effects of forgiveness on relationship between empathy and health-related QOL among hemodialysis patients.Methods. In a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted from September to December 2017, 457 hemodialysis patients from five hospitals filled out the Heartland Forgiveness Scale, Interpersonal Reactivity Index-C, Kidney Disease Questionnaire, and general information. The data were analyzed using SPSS, and structural equation modeling was used to address the relationships among empathy, forgiveness, and health-related QOL.Results. Empathy was significantly positively associated with health-related QOL. The proposed model had a good fit to the data. Forgiveness was found to play a partial mediating role between empathy and health-related QOL.Conclusion. The results imply that empathy significantly directly and indirectly influences health-related QOL. Empathy among hemodialysis patients should be monitored and effectively managed to improve positive effects on their health-related QOL. Nurses should consider implementing empathy interventions with an emphasis on building forgiveness strategies to help hemodialysis patients improve their health-related QOL.

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“…Coping generally refers to the cognitive and behavioral efforts (e.g., emotion regulation and problem solving) implemented to modulate internal or external demands that are appraised as taxing or exceeding personal resources (Endler & Parker, 1990;Garnefski et al, 2001;Lazarus & Folkman, 1984). Adaptive coping skills are thought to be critical for adaptation at old age (Gamrowska & Steuden, 2014;MacLeod et al, 2016), and have been associated with higher QoL (Hildon et al, 2010;León-Navarrete et al, 2017;Rey & Extremera, 2016). Two recently developed instruments that capture various cognitive (emotion regulation) and behavioral coping strategies are the Positive Appraisal Style Scale (PASS) and the Behavioral Coping Scale (BCS).…”

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The Interplay between Quality of Life and Resilience Factors in Later Life: A Network Analysis

Brinkhof¹,

Huth²,

Murre³

et al. 2021

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Age-related challenges and transitions can have considerable social, psychological, and physical consequences that may lead to significant changes in quality of life (QoL). As such, maintaining high levels of QoL in later life may crucially depend on the ability to demonstrate resilience (i.e., successful adaptation to late-life challenges). The current study set out to explore the interplay between several resilience factors, and how these contribute to the realization and maintenance of (different facets of) QoL. Based on previous work, we identified behavioral coping, positive appraisal, self-management ability, and physical activity as key resilience factors. Their interplay with (various facets of) QoL, as measured with the WHOQOL-OLD, was established through network analysis. In a sample of community-dwelling older adults (55+; N = 1392), we found that QoL was most strongly (and directly) related to positive appraisal style and self-management ability. Among those, taking care of multifunctional resources (i.e., yielding various benefits at the same time) seemed to be crucial. It connected directly to “satisfaction with past, present, and future activities”, a key facet of QoL with strong interconnections to other QoL facets. Our analysis also identified resilience factor(s) with the potential to promote QoL when targeted by training, intervention or other experimental manipulation. The appropriate set of resilience factors to manipulate may depend on the goal and/or facet of QoL that one aims to improve.

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Forgiveness and health-related quality of life in older people: Adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies as mediators

Cited by 28 publications

References 43 publications

Prediction of Health Anxiety Based on Spiritual Well-being and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies During COVID-19 in Iranian Individuals

Prediction of Health Anxiety Based on Spiritual Well-being and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies During COVID-19 in Iranian Individuals

Moderating Effects of Forgiveness on Relationship Between Empathy and Health-Related Quality of Life in Hemodialysis Patients: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

The Interplay between Quality of Life and Resilience Factors in Later Life: A Network Analysis

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