Relationship Between Love of Life and Happiness in Iranian Patients with Multiple Sclerosis

Dadfar, Mahboubeh; Moghaddasi, Mehdi; Mohebi, Nafiseh; Mohaghegh, Fahimeh; Eslami, Monireh

doi:10.1016/j.msard.2018.10.071

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“…Statistically significant negative correlations were found between depression and the feeling of happiness (R = -0.591; p < 0.01). Additionally, a statistically significant difference related to the feeling of happiness was reported between the patients with MS only and those with MS and comorbidities (p < 0.001) [40]. That study found that MS with comorbidities had an unfavourable influence on an individual patient's feeling of happiness, which is in line with our findings.…”

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Sense of happiness in Polish patients with multiple sclerosis

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Szcześniak,

Wilski

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Neurol Neurochir Pol.

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Introduction.Happiness is crucial to patient well-being and their acceptance of their disease. The aim of this study was to assess the sense of happiness in persons with multiple sclerosis (PwMS), compare it to the level of happiness in patients with other neurological conditions, and determine which factors affect the sense of happiness in PwMS. Material and methods.Five hundred and eighty-nine PwMS and 145 control subjects (post-stroke patients with chronic pain syndromes and neuropathies) were included in the study. Due to the differences between the groups in terms of demographic variables, an adjusted group of PwMS (n = 145) was selected from the entire group of PwMS. All patients were assessed using the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (OHQ), the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SLS), and the Family APGAR Questionnaire. Based on regression analysis, the study examined which variables affected the level of happiness in the groups.Results. Analysis of the OHQ scores showed that PwMS had a lower sense of happiness compared to the control group in the overall score [113.21 (25-42) vs. 119.88 (25-49), respectively; p = 0.031] and the subscales (OHQ subscale 1 -54.52 vs. 57.84, respectively; p = 0.027; subscale 2 -35.61 vs. 37.67; respectively; p = 0.044). Based on linear regression analysis, life satisfaction (β = 0.40; p < 0.001), positive orientation (β = 0.32; p < 0.001), and primary education (β = 0.08; p = 0.009) were the most significant predictors of a higher level of happiness in PwMS. Similar results were found in the control group.Conclusions. The sense of happiness in PwMS was lower than in patients with other conditions. The most important factors influencing happiness included life satisfaction and positive orientation. Influencing these predictors should be the aim of psychological interventions, especially in patients with a reduced sense of happiness.

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“…The feeling of happiness was also assessed in Bulgarian PwMS with and without comorbidities [40]. Eighty PwMS were evaluated, of whom 40 patients presented with MS alone, and 40 with MS and comorbidities.…”

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Sense of happiness in Polish patients with multiple sclerosis

Brola,

Szcześniak,

Wilski

et al. 2023

Neurol Neurochir Pol.

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“…Research has shown that love of life is positively associated with extraversion and negatively associated with psychoticism and neuroticism (Abdel‐Khalek, 2013a). Love of life is associated with having meaning in life, optimism, social support, mental and physical health, happiness, satisfaction with life, religiosity, subjective well‐being and hope (Abdel‐Khalek, 2007; Al‐ Ayoob, 2010; Dadfar, Lester, Turan, Beshai, & Unterrainer, 2019, 2020; Dadfar, Moghaddasi, Mohebi, Mohaghegh, & Eslami, 2018; El‐Nayal, 2009b; Simmons & Lehmann, 2013). Love of life is negatively associated with the wish to be dead (Dadfar, Lester, Atef Vahid, & Abdel‐Khalek, 2017b) and death anxiety (Dadfar, Abdel‐Khalek, Lester, & Atef Vahid, 2017a).…”

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Love of life and its association with well‐being in Iranian psychiatric outpatients

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More generally, Abdel-Khalek (2007, 2013a) has argued that love of life is a sub-component of the construct of subjective well-being and it is relevant to the disciplines of positive psychology and health psychology. Love of life is defined as a positive evaluation of one's own life and involves holding on strongly to life, grasping at life, having a pleasurable attachment to life and having an appreciation for life. However, the love of life concept is not related to the Freudian concept of Eros or the life instinct (see Campbell, 1996). Research has shown that love of life is positively associated with extraversion and negatively associated with psychoticism and neuroticism (Abdel-Khalek, 2013a). Love of life is associated with having

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