ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2021
Satisfaction with Life: Mediating Role in the Relationship between Depressive Symptoms and Coping Mechanisms.
Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
- Factors associated with depression among people with cancer: Systematic umbrella review.Palliative & supportive care · 2026Review
- Exploring the lived experiences and coping strategies of mental health caregivers in Ethiopia: implications for supportive interventions.International journal of mental health systems · 2026Article
- Challenges, care gaps, and coping mechanisms in patients with advanced cancer and their caregivers following palliative gastrointestinal surgery.Palliative care and social practice · 2026Article
- Coping Profiles and Functioning During Emerging Adulthood: A Comparative Person-Centered Longitudinal Approach.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2025Article
- Comparative Analysis of Intimate Partner Violence Perpetrators According to their Referral Type: Self-Referred, Legally Mandated, and Formally Pressured.Criminal justice and behavior · 2025Article
- Adaptive versus maladaptive coping strategies: insight from Lebanese young adults navigating multiple crises.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Intolerance of uncertainty and mental health in patients with IBD: the mediating role of maladaptive coping.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Personality Typing and Body Dissatisfaction in Korean Young Adults: Which Personality Type Is More Dissatisfied With Their Body Image?Psychiatry investigation · 2025Article
- Unheard Struggles: Exploring Health-Related Quality of Life Determinants and Coping Mechanisms Among Children with Hearing Loss from Parents and Caregivers Perspective.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2025Article
- The moderating role of coping styles on the associations of fatigue with life satisfaction in Chinese nurses: a cross-sectional study.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- Mindfulness Intervention Improves Coping and Perceptions of Children's Behavior among Families with Elevated Risk.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Subjective social status and functional and mobility impairments among older adults: life satisfaction and depression as mediators and moderators.BMC geriatrics · 2023Article
- Testing the Associations between Coping, Mental Health, and Satisfaction with Life in Portuguese Workers.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2023Article
- The relationship between physical activity trajectories and frailty: a 20-year prospective cohort among community-dwelling older people.BMC geriatrics · 2022Article
- Coping Strategies and Perceiving Stress among Athletes during Different Waves of the COVID-19 Pandemic-Data from Poland, Romania, and Slovakia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The Relationship between Emotional Stability, Psychological Well-Being and Life Satisfaction of Romanian Medical Doctors during COVID-19 Period: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The Future Looks Good: Examining the Associations Between Coping, Psychological Distress, and Optimism.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- A Comprehensive Review and Bifactor Modeling Analysis of the Brief COPE.Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financingReview
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to analyze the mediating role of life satisfaction in the relationship between fourteen coping strategies and depressive symptoms in the Portuguese population. To undertake this work, 313 Portuguese adults aged 18 to 70 years (M = 30.73; SD = 10.79) were invited to participate in this study. Their participation was completely voluntary, and participants granted and signed informed consent previously to the filling of the validated Portuguese questionnaires. These questionnaires measured depressive symptoms, coping, and life satisfaction. The results revealed that life satisfaction displayed a mediating role in the relationship between adaptive coping mechanisms, specifically between active coping, planning, reinterpretation, and acceptance and depressive symptoms, showing a negative and significant indirect effect. Maladaptive coping mechanisms of self-blame, denial, self-distraction, disengagement, and substance use had a significant positive association with depressive symptoms, considering the mediating role of satisfaction with life. Current investigation provides initial evidence of how each coping mechanism is associated with satisfaction with life and depressive symptoms. This study clearly demonstrates that not all coping strategies are capable of influencing well-being indicators and that health professionals should focus on endorsing those that are significantly associated with lowering depressive symptoms and increasing overall satisfaction with life.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.