Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Relationship Between Stressful Life Events and Quality of Life in Adolescents

Is Atopy Related to Neuroticism, Stress, and Subjective Quality of Life?Different psychosocial characteristics have been associated with allergic disorders. The aim of this study was to examine whether atopic constitution and reports of allergic symptoms were related to personality trait of neuroticism, exposure to stressful life events and estimates of quality of life. Atopy was determined by skin prick test and reports of nasal and pulmonary allergy-related symptoms. Actively working individuals of both genders took part in the study (n=145, age range: 20 to 66 years). The participants were divided in three groups. The first group was composed of those with negative skin prick test and without symptoms (n=57), the second of those with positive skin prick test but without symptoms (n=28), and the third of those with positive skin prick test and symptoms (n=60). The groups did not differ significantly in neuroticism, exposure to stressful life events, or quality of life. Women reported more pronounced neuroticism and anxiety, higher exposure to stressful life events, and were less satisfied with their environment than men. In our sample of active workers we found no association of neuroticism, exposure to stressful life events, and quality of life with atopy and allergic symptoms.

Download Full-text

Stressful Life Events and Quality of Life in Nursing Students

The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education ◽

10.5977/jkasne.2012.18.1.071 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 71-80 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Yeoung-Suk Song

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Nursing Students ◽

Life Events ◽

Stressful Life Events ◽

Stressful Life

Download Full-text

Stressful Life Events Moderate the Relationship Between Changes in Symptom Severity and Health-related Quality of Life in Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology ◽

10.1097/mcg.0000000000001261 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 54 (5) ◽

pp. 445-451 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Yuanjun Dong ◽

David Baumeister ◽

Sabrina Berens ◽

Wolfgang Eich ◽

Jonas Tesarz

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Life Events ◽

Symptom Severity ◽

Stressful Life Events ◽

Health Related Quality ◽

Related Quality ◽

Health Related ◽

Irritable Bowel ◽

The Relationship

Download Full-text

Linking dispositional mindfulness and positive psychological processes in cancer survivorship: A multivariate path analysis.

Journal of Clinical Oncology ◽

10.1200/jco.2014.32.31_suppl.237 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 32 (31_suppl) ◽

pp. 237-237

Author(s):

Anna Catherine Beck ◽

Eric Garland ◽

Paul Thielking ◽

Shelley White

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Path Analysis ◽

Life Events ◽

Cancer Survivorship ◽

Meaning In Life ◽

Stressful Life Events ◽

Stressful Life ◽

Psychological Processes ◽

Dispositional Mindfulness

237 Background: Research indicates dispositional mindfulness is linked with positive psychological outcomes. This disposition, which is malleable through training, is characterized by the tendency exhibit nonjudgmental and nonreactive awareness of one’s thoughts, emotions, and present moment sensory-perceptual experience. Although this trait has been linked with salutary outcomes in the broader mental health literature, less is known about the trait of mindfulness in cancer survivors and how it may be linked with indices of psychological and physical health relevant to cancer survivorship. Methods: We conducted a multivariate path analysis of cross-sectional data from a heterogenous sample of cancer patients (N = 97) to test a conceptual model linking dispositional mindfulness with cancer-related quality of life via positive psychological processes. Results: We found that patients with higher levels of dispositional mindfulness were more likely to pay attention to positive experiences (β = 0.47), a propensity which was associated with positive reappraisal of stressful life events (β = 0.46). Patients who endorsed more frequent positive reappraisal had a greater sense of sense of meaning in life (β = 0.43) and savored rewarding or life affirming events (β = 0.45). In turn, those who engaged in high levels of savoring had better quality of life (β = 0.33) and suffered from less emotional distress (β = -0.54). Overall model fit was excellent, χ2/df= 1.18; CFI = 0.99; RMSEA = 0.04 (0.00, 0.12). Conclusions: The data support our hypothetical model of the processes by which mindfulness promotes psychological flourishing in the face of cancer. Dispositional mindfulness appears to broaden attention from a myopic focus on illness to encompass previously unattended positive features of the social and natural environment. With this broader set of information from which new, more adaptive situational appraisals may be generated, mindfulness may engender positive reappraisals of stressful life events and promote sense of meaning in life. When sustained over time, these processes may propel an upward spiral of positive cognition-emotion interactions with salutary consequences for cancer survivorship.

Download Full-text