Association between Quality of Life, Confinement, and Sex in Adults: A Multigroup Structural Equation Analysis
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Zurita Ortega, Félix; Galeano-Rojas, D.; Tenelanda López, Dennys; Cresp Barria, Mauricio; Farías Valenzuela, Claudio; Valdivia Moral, Pedro AngelEditorial
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Quality of life Lifestyles Confinement
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2024-04-03Referencia bibliográfica
Zurita-Ortega, F.; Galeano-Rojas, D.; Tenelanda-López, D.; Cresp-Barria, M.; Farias-Valenzuela, C.; Valdivia-Moral, P. Association between Quality of Life, Confinement, and Sex in Adults: A Multigroup Structural Equation Analysis. Healthcare 2024, 12, 774. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12070774
Resumen
The state of confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic affected the quality of life of the
general population. This study aims to define and contrast an explanatory model of the quality of life
in adults and to analyze the relationships between these variables based on the state of confinement
and sex. A total of 872 people from Chile aged between 17 and 50 (M = 21.70 years; SD= 3.272), of both
sexes (60.90% male and 39.1% female) participated in this research, of whom 46.6% were not confined
when tested and 53.4% were confined, analyzing the quality of life. A model of multi-group structural
equations was performed, which adjusted very well (χ2 = 559.577; DF = 38; p < 0.001; IFC = 0.934;
NFI = 0.916; IFI = 0.934; RMSEA = 0.061). The results show a positive and direct relationship among
all the variables studied and the structural equation model proposed according to confinement and
sex reveals a good fit in all the evaluation indexes. Stress and sleep, personality, and introspection
were the indicators with the greatest influence in the four models, followed by the family and friends
indicator with a medium correlation strength, such as the health monitoring dimension, although this
was not as influential in confined individuals. The main conclusions are that the best adjustments
are obtained in confined adults and females, and the data show that the psychological indicators
obtained (stress and sleep, personality, and introspection) have the greatest influence on adults in the
four models proposed with regard to their quality of life.