caa a22 4500 606178643 CHVBK 20210128100757.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11136-014-0901-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11136-014-0901-7 Future orientation and health quality of life in primary care: vitality as a mediator [Elektronische Daten] [Jameson Hirsch, Danielle Molnar, Edward Chang, Fuschia Sirois] Purpose: 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. Method: 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. Results: 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. Conclusions: 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. Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2014 Future orientation nationallicence Vitality nationallicence Health quality of life nationallicence Primary care nationallicence Hirsch Jameson Department of Psychology, East Tennessee State University, 420 Rogers Stout Hall, 37614, Johnson City, TN, USA aut Molnar Danielle Department of Psychology, Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada aut Chang Edward Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA aut Sirois Fuschia Department of Psychology, Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, Canada aut Quality of Life Research Springer International Publishing 24/7(2015-07-01), 1653-1659 0962-9343 24:7<1653 2015 24 11136 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-014-0901-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 brief-communication jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-014-0901-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hirsch Jameson Department of Psychology, East Tennessee State University, 420 Rogers Stout Hall, 37614, Johnson City, TN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Molnar Danielle Department of Psychology, Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chang Edward Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sirois Fuschia Department of Psychology, Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Quality of Life Research Springer International Publishing 24/7(2015-07-01), 1653-1659 0962-9343 24:7<1653 2015 24 11136