Hirsch Jameson K, Molnar Danielle, Chang Edward C, Sirois Fuschia M
Department of Psychology, East Tennessee State University, 420 Rogers Stout Hall, Johnson City, TN, 37614, USA,
Qual Life Res. 2015 Jul;24(7):1653-9. doi: 10.1007/s11136-014-0901-7. Epub 2014 Dec 30.
Temporal perspective, including views about future goals, may influence motivational processes related to health. An adaptive sense of future orientation is linked to better health, but little research has examined potential underlying factors, such as vitality.
In a sample of 101 primary care patients, we examined whether belief in the changeability of the future was related to mental and physical energization and, in turn, to health-related quality of life. Participants were working, uninsured primary care patients, who completed self-report measures of future orientation, vitality, and health-related quality of life.
Mediation models, covarying age, sex, and race/ethnicity indicated that vitality significantly mediated the association between future orientation and the outcomes of general health, mental health, social functioning, bodily pain, and role limitations due to emotional and physical reasons. Vitality exerted an indirect-only effect on the relation between future orientation and physical functioning.
Our findings suggest that adaptive beliefs about the future may promote, or allow access to, physical and mental energy and, in turn, may result in better mental and physical health functioning. Individual-level and public health interventions designed to promote future orientation and vitality may beneficially influence quality of life and well-being.
时间视角，包括对未来目标的看法，可能会影响与健康相关的动机过程。适应性的未来取向感与更好的健康状况相关，但很少有研究探讨其潜在因素，如活力。
在101名初级保健患者的样本中，我们研究了对未来可变性的信念是否与心理和身体活力相关，进而与健康相关生活质量相关。参与者为在职的、未参保的初级保健患者，他们完成了关于未来取向、活力和健康相关生活质量的自我报告测量。
对年龄、性别和种族/民族进行协变量调整的中介模型表明，活力显著中介了未来取向与总体健康、心理健康、社会功能、身体疼痛以及因情感和身体原因导致的角色限制等结果之间的关联。活力对未来取向与身体功能之间的关系仅产生间接影响。
我们的研究结果表明，对未来的适应性信念可能促进或使人获得身心能量，进而可能带来更好的身心健康功能。旨在促进未来取向和活力的个体层面和公共卫生干预措施可能会对生活质量和幸福感产生有益影响。
