caa a22 4500 477085156 CHVBK 20180405111501.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00434745 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00434745 Toward a general model of health-related quality of life [Elektronische Daten] [D. Romney, D. Evans] A health-related quality of life (HRQOL) model that fitted data collected in previous studies from two separate samples—patients with chronic physical illness and patients with chronic mental illness—was adapted and tested on a representative sample drawn from the normal population. This model, which implied that both physical and mental health influenced number of friendships, personal growth, and job satisfaction, fitted the data very well. However, an alternative model reversing the directions of the pathways so that friendships, personal growth, and job satisfaction affected physical health and mental health, with the latter two having a mutual effect on each other, fitted the data even better. This suggests that, although a medical model of HRQOL may be more important when it comes to alleviating illness, a psychosocial model of HRQOL may be more important when it comes to maintaining health and preventing illness. Moreover, the fact that essentially the same five-factor structural model fits three distinct populations, healthy and unhealthy, suggests that there may be a general model of quality of life applicable to all populations. The implications of these findings for clinical theory, policy, and practice are discussed. Rapid Science Publishers, 1996 Cardiac patients nationallicence healthy populations nationallicence quality of life nationallicence schizophrenic patients nationallicence Romney D. Department of Educational Psychology, University of Calgary, Canada aut Evans D. Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, Canada aut Quality of Life Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 5/2(1996-04-01), 235-241 0962-9343 5:2<235 1996 5 11136 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00434745 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00434745 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Romney D. Department of Educational Psychology, University of Calgary, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Evans D. Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Quality of Life Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 5/2(1996-04-01), 235-241 0962-9343 5:2<235 1996 5 11136 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer