Healthy Behavior as a Mediator in the Relationship Between Optimism and Life Satisfaction in Health Sciences Students: A Cross-Sectional Study

Unveiling the Impact of Personality in Lifestyle Solidarity: An Exploratory Study of the Effects of Dispositional Optimism and Risk Orientation

“…Although we corroborate the results of some studies (Geers et al, 2009;Pavlova & Silbereisen, 2013), others found no association between optimism and preferences for effectiveness (Luyten et al, 2019). Besides, another noteworthy finding was that optimists were more prevention-oriented when it comes to their health behaviours in line with other studies (Pänkäläinen et al, 2018;Rogowska et al, 2021;Steptoe et al, 2006), which may explain their lower solidarity with those that somehow neglected their health. However, other empirical findings found no relation between dispositional optimism and own lifestyle (Pinho & Araújo, 2022).…”

“…In the health domain, it suggests that optimists may prefer investing in prevention over treatment to avoid bad outcomes in the future. Health behaviour research has investigated the relationship between dispositional optimism and lifestyle factors and found that optimists are likelier than pessimists to engage in health-promoting behaviours to stay physically healthy (Pänkäläinen et al, 2018;Dohmen et al, 2019;Rogowska et al, 2021). Moreover, when trade-offs in investing efforts are needed, optimists seem to spend more effort to enhance goals with favourable odds (Pavlova & Silbereisen, 2013).…”

Personal growth initiative moderates the mediating effect of COVID-19 preventive behaviors between fear of COVID-19 and satisfaction with life

“…To the best of our knowledge, there is practically no research that specifically indicates a positive relationship between COVID-19 preventive behaviors and satisfaction with life as in the mediation model of this study. However, research has demonstrated that preventive behaviors (i.e., compliance with health recommendations) and health practices are related to satisfaction with life ( Grygiel et al, 2018 ; Rogowska et al, 2021 ). Third, as a moderator, personal growth initiative supports the view that higher levels of personal growth initiative promote greater well-being ( Robitschek & Keyes, 2009 ; Ryff, 1989 ).…”

“…The second part of the mediation model suggests that the increased adherence to preventive behaviors—representing positive learnable and implementable strategies to manage the risk—motivated by the fear of COVID-19 may then possibly relate to life satisfaction. Previous scholarly work has indicated that preventive behaviors (i.e., compliance with health recommendations) and health practices are related to life satisfaction ( Grygiel et al, 2018 ; Rogowska et al, 2021 ). Moreover, physical wellness behaviors (body dimension) have been shown to relate to life satisfaction ( Green et al, 2020a ).…”

The KIDSCREEN-27 Quality of Life Measure for Romanian Children Aged 6: Reliability and Validity of the Romanian Version

“…These people experience high levels of emotions and pleasant moods and are motivated, predicting greater career success and better social relations, and finally have better health [ 3 ]. Subjective wellbeing is also determined by good health, healthy lifestyle, hope, a commitment to achieving important goals, a feeling of fulfillment, living condition, resources, education and even personality [ 4 , 5 ]. A healthy lifestyle, which leads to good health and life satisfaction increase, is based on health-related behaviors, such as dieting, physical activity, lack of psychological stress, lack of alcohol, smoking or illicit substances use and sleeping enough [ 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 ].…”