Daily Self-Monitoring of Physical Leisure Activities and Health Practices, Self-Concept, and Quality-of-Life

Quality of Life Through the Prism of the Roy Adaptation Model

“…Similarly, Hsu and Lu (2018) from physical education and sport coaching disciplines, respectively, conducted a descriptive correlational study with older adults (N = 152) and stated that physical exercise was associated with enhancement to psychological factors and self-concept. Finally, Kwak et al (2015) reported a significant positive relationship between physical activities and positive self-concept when utilizing cell phones as a tool for daily monitoring of activities, such as cigarette smoking, alcohol drinking, and time spent in physical activities.…”

“…The theme elevated self-esteem fosters positive QOL surfaced in this concept analysis as a theme for a variety of reasons. Self-esteem was found to be in some fashion in most QOL definitions and QOL scales such as the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale (Fitts & Warren, as cited in Neuman & Reiter, 2017) and the World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment-Brief Instrument measure of self-esteem (Kwak, Amrhein, Barkhoff, & Heiby, 2015;Skevington & Bohnke, 2018). To illustrate, researchers from psychology conducted regression analysis in a study on children (N = 182) age 9 to 14 years based on the Student's Perception of Ability Scale and the Health-Related Quality of Life Measure for Children With Epilepsy questionnaire and showed how epilepsy and learning disability affects self-concept and QOL (Brabcova, Zarubova, Kohout, Jost, & Krsek, 2015).…”

“…According to Roy (2009), "self-concept is formed from internal perceptions and perceptions of others' reactions" (p. 95). In addition, self-esteem and self-concept were frequently discussed in the context of QOL (Brabcova et al, 2015;Dolgun, Savaser, & Yazgan, 2014;Hsu & Lu, 2018;Kwak et al, 2015;Luquiens, Falissard, & Aubin, 2016;Reinders & Schalock, 2014;Silvestre & Landa, 2016). Self-esteem is one of the main attributes of QOL.…”