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Erschienen in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 9/2014

01.09.2014 | Original Paper

Associations with quality of life and the effect of psychopathology in a community study

verfasst von: Jonathan Rogers, Michael P. Hengartner, Jules Angst, Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross, Wulf Rössler

Erschienen in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology | Ausgabe 9/2014

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Abstract

Purpose

Quality of life (QoL) is considerably impaired in mental illness and especially in depression. In this study, we aimed to determine the demographic, personality-related and psychopathological associations with QoL. In addition, we studied how the associations with QoL differ depending on the burden of psychopathology.

Methods

We used a longitudinal observational cohort study, enriched for high levels of psychopathology, to examine data for QoL when the subjects were 34–35. We conducted a hierarchical linear regression analysis to determine how sex, personality, sociodemographics, somatic symptoms and psychopathology affect QoL.

Results

Once all the variables were included in the model, total psychopathology is strongly negatively associated with QoL, while mastery and income were shown to have positive associations with QoL. Sex, personality and somatic symptoms had no significant associations with QoL once the other variables had been introduced into the regression. Due to the outstanding association with psychopathology, we tested whether the relationship had any interaction with the other predictors, but none reached statistical significance.

Conclusions

The most important association with QoL is psychopathology, regardless of sex, personality, coping resources, sociodemographics or the extent somatic symptoms. The relationship holds across the other variables included and the results are, thus, widely applicable.
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Metadaten
Titel
Associations with quality of life and the effect of psychopathology in a community study
verfasst von
Jonathan Rogers
Michael P. Hengartner
Jules Angst
Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross
Wulf Rössler
Publikationsdatum
01.09.2014
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology / Ausgabe 9/2014
Print ISSN: 0933-7954
Elektronische ISSN: 1433-9285
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-014-0841-0

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