Year: 2022
Type: conference-abstract
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Introduction Love of life as a positive evaluation of one‘s own life plays an important role in developing a person’s positive outlook on their own wellbeing. Objectives Our goal is to define the nature of interrelations between manifestations of love of life and some psychosocial factors of health in university students. Methods Using the English version of the Love of Life Scale (Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek) and the Sociocultural Health Questionnaire (E. Nikolaev), we carried out an online survey of 136 university students of both genders. A correlation analysis helped to define the interrelations. Results We established that a high level of the overall rate of Love of Life, on the one hand, corresponds to high self-evaluation of a person’s health (r=.31, p<.05) and happiness (r=.47, p<.05). On the other hand, it correlates with a high level of anti-suicidal barrier (r=.20, p<.05) and low frequency of headaches (r=-.18, p<.05). Students’ desire for a long life, which would enable to achieve everything they have been dreaming of, correlates with low weight (r=-.18, p<.05). A low level of stress is connected with a greater feeling of love in life (r=-.22, p<.05) and its perception as something beautiful and fascinating (r=-.29, p<.05). Better understanding of life correlates with lower frequency of smoking (r=-.19, p<.05). Conclusions A psychological construct of Love of life, due to its negative correlations with the health risk factors has a great positive potential for a personality development and their health. It can serve as a target for a psychological impact in interventions. Disclosure No significant relationships.
Source: European Psychiatry
Authors: E. Nikolaev, S. Petunova
Institution: Chuvash State University
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,575
OpenAlex ID: W4294201729