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Open AccessUsing latent profile analysis to understand palliative care professionals’ quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic
Healthcare workers’ professional quality of life has been increasingly under the spotlight, even more so during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has posed a genuine challenge for them. This study aims to describe ...
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Open AccessSenior volunteers: addressing loneliness in times of COVID-19
Volunteering in old age plays an important role in addressing feelings of loneliness, but little research has been conducted on the impact of engaging in volunteering activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. T...
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Psychometric properties on a romantic love myths scale: The case of the myths, fallacies and erroneous beliefs about the ideal of romantic love scale
Understanding the construct of romantic love is an important task in societies all around the world. However, instruments designed to assess this construct are scarce and most of them were developed more than ...
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Frailty in the Old Age as a Direct Marker of Quality of Life and Health: Gender Differences
Aging of the population emphasizes the need for research on aging-related problems, among which frailty is a key element because of its clinical as well as social implications. After a review of empirical rese...
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Patients Suffering from a Chronic, Irreversible Illness: A Novel Study on the Psychological Intervention out of the Hospital
Objective: Patients with chronic, untreatable diseases have emotional needs that are often unaddressed by conventional care services within the healthcare systems. The situation of patients with idiopathic pulmon...
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Open AccessDevelopment and validation of the Short Professional Quality of Life Scale based on versions IV and V of the Professional Quality of Life Scale
This research presents a short version of the Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL) scale, one of the most frequently used questionnaires in the arena of applied healthcare investigation. It measures burnout (BO)...
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How Does Mindfulness Work? Exploring a Theoretical Model Using Samples of Meditators and Non-meditators
Several models have been proposed to explain the effects of mindfulness training on health and well-being, including several potential mechanisms. The goal of the present study is to empirically test a model o...
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Cultivating Emotional Balance in Professional Caregivers: a Pilot Intervention
Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB) is an evidenced-based Mindfulness and Compassion-Based Intervention (MCBI) designed to reduce destructive, negative emotional experiences toward oneself and others and to pr...
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Dimensionality and Validation of the Dispositional Hope Scale in a Spanish Sample
Hope has emerged as a central construct when discussing human psychological strengths, well-being and quality of life. The first and most used instrument presented to measure the construct was the dispositiona...