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Love of life and its association with well‐being in Iranian psychiatric outpatients
AIM: The aims of this study were as follows: (a) to investigate the psychometric properties of the Love of Life Scale (LLS); (b) to explore sex differences in LLS scores; (c) to explore LLS correlations with spiritual health and psychological well‐being; and (d) to compare the mean LLS score with pr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7544882/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33072372 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nop2.575 |
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author | Dadfar, Mahboubeh Abdel‐Khalek, Ahmed M. Lester, David |
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description | AIM: The aims of this study were as follows: (a) to investigate the psychometric properties of the Love of Life Scale (LLS); (b) to explore sex differences in LLS scores; (c) to explore LLS correlations with spiritual health and psychological well‐being; and (d) to compare the mean LLS score with previous studies. DESIGN: A cross‐sectional study. METHODS: A sample of 191 Iranian psychiatric outpatients was recruited from clinics at the School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health (Tehran Institute of Psychiatry), which is affiliated with the Iran University of Medical Sciences. They responded to the Farsi versions of the LLS, the Spiritual Well‐Being Scale (SWS) and the World Health Organization‐five Well‐Being Index (WHO‐5). RESULTS: Cronbach alpha for the LLS was 0.95, and a principal component analysis (PCA) of the LLS items extracted one component labelled "Love of life." The sex difference in LLS scores was not significant. All the correlations between the scales were statistically significant and positive. Patients who had high scores for their love of life had better spiritual health and psychological well‐being. DISCUSSION: The present sample obtained a lower mean LLS score than college students from eight countries except one. Further research should explore predictors of the love of life. |
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spelling | pubmed-75448822020-10-16 Love of life and its association with well‐being in Iranian psychiatric outpatients Dadfar, Mahboubeh Abdel‐Khalek, Ahmed M. Lester, David Nurs Open Research Articles AIM: The aims of this study were as follows: (a) to investigate the psychometric properties of the Love of Life Scale (LLS); (b) to explore sex differences in LLS scores; (c) to explore LLS correlations with spiritual health and psychological well‐being; and (d) to compare the mean LLS score with previous studies. DESIGN: A cross‐sectional study. METHODS: A sample of 191 Iranian psychiatric outpatients was recruited from clinics at the School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health (Tehran Institute of Psychiatry), which is affiliated with the Iran University of Medical Sciences. They responded to the Farsi versions of the LLS, the Spiritual Well‐Being Scale (SWS) and the World Health Organization‐five Well‐Being Index (WHO‐5). RESULTS: Cronbach alpha for the LLS was 0.95, and a principal component analysis (PCA) of the LLS items extracted one component labelled "Love of life." The sex difference in LLS scores was not significant. All the correlations between the scales were statistically significant and positive. Patients who had high scores for their love of life had better spiritual health and psychological well‐being. DISCUSSION: The present sample obtained a lower mean LLS score than college students from eight countries except one. Further research should explore predictors of the love of life. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-08-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7544882/ /pubmed/33072372 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nop2.575 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Nursing Open published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Articles Dadfar, Mahboubeh Abdel‐Khalek, Ahmed M. Lester, David Love of life and its association with well‐being in Iranian psychiatric outpatients |
title | Love of life and its association with well‐being in Iranian psychiatric outpatients |
title_full | Love of life and its association with well‐being in Iranian psychiatric outpatients |
title_fullStr | Love of life and its association with well‐being in Iranian psychiatric outpatients |
title_full_unstemmed | Love of life and its association with well‐being in Iranian psychiatric outpatients |
title_short | Love of life and its association with well‐being in Iranian psychiatric outpatients |
title_sort | love of life and its association with well‐being in iranian psychiatric outpatients |
topic | Research Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7544882/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33072372 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nop2.575 |
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