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Mind Over Matter: Mindfulness, Income, Resilience, and Life Quality of Vocational High School Students in China
Many social welfare programs focus on the provision of cash assistance and cash transfers to improve the quality of life (QoL) of those living in low-income households. While there is literature to support a positive relationship between income and QoL, studies have shown that QoL is impacted by non...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7459870/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32784544 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165701 |
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author | Cheung, Shannon Xie, Xiaoxia Huang, Chien-chung |
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description | Many social welfare programs focus on the provision of cash assistance and cash transfers to improve the quality of life (QoL) of those living in low-income households. While there is literature to support a positive relationship between income and QoL, studies have shown that QoL is impacted by non-income-related factors. This study examined the effects of income and mindfulness on QoL through a mediator, resilience, and attempts to answer the question of how important income is to QoL, relative to a non-income-based determinant, mindfulness. Using a sample of 905 emerging adults from the senior class of a secondary vocational high school based in an impoverished county of China, we studied two key determinants of QoL, income and mindfulness, as well as respective pathways, during a particularly critical stage of life. The results indicated that mindfulness had strong direct and indirect effects on QoL via resilience, while income had only limited indirect effects on QoL via resilience. Policy implications were discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-74598702020-09-02 Mind Over Matter: Mindfulness, Income, Resilience, and Life Quality of Vocational High School Students in China Cheung, Shannon Xie, Xiaoxia Huang, Chien-chung Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Many social welfare programs focus on the provision of cash assistance and cash transfers to improve the quality of life (QoL) of those living in low-income households. While there is literature to support a positive relationship between income and QoL, studies have shown that QoL is impacted by non-income-related factors. This study examined the effects of income and mindfulness on QoL through a mediator, resilience, and attempts to answer the question of how important income is to QoL, relative to a non-income-based determinant, mindfulness. Using a sample of 905 emerging adults from the senior class of a secondary vocational high school based in an impoverished county of China, we studied two key determinants of QoL, income and mindfulness, as well as respective pathways, during a particularly critical stage of life. The results indicated that mindfulness had strong direct and indirect effects on QoL via resilience, while income had only limited indirect effects on QoL via resilience. Policy implications were discussed. MDPI 2020-08-07 2020-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7459870/ /pubmed/32784544 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165701 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Cheung, Shannon Xie, Xiaoxia Huang, Chien-chung Mind Over Matter: Mindfulness, Income, Resilience, and Life Quality of Vocational High School Students in China |
title | Mind Over Matter: Mindfulness, Income, Resilience, and Life Quality of Vocational High School Students in China |
title_full | Mind Over Matter: Mindfulness, Income, Resilience, and Life Quality of Vocational High School Students in China |
title_fullStr | Mind Over Matter: Mindfulness, Income, Resilience, and Life Quality of Vocational High School Students in China |
title_full_unstemmed | Mind Over Matter: Mindfulness, Income, Resilience, and Life Quality of Vocational High School Students in China |
title_short | Mind Over Matter: Mindfulness, Income, Resilience, and Life Quality of Vocational High School Students in China |
title_sort | mind over matter: mindfulness, income, resilience, and life quality of vocational high school students in china |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7459870/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32784544 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165701 |
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