%0 Journal Article
%A Castillo-Mayen, Rosario
%A Cano-Espejo, Cristina
%A Luque, Barbara
%A Cuadrado, Esther
%A Gutierrez-Domingo, Tamara
%A Arenas, Alicia
%A Rubio, Sebastian J
%A Delgado-Lista, Javier
%A Perez-Martinez, Pablo
%A Tabernero, Carmen
%T Influence of Self-Efficacy and Motivation to Follow a Healthy Diet on Life Satisfaction of Patients with Cardiovascular Disease: A Longitudinal Study.
%D 2020
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10668/15853
%X Today, cardiovascular disease has a great impact on the global population due to its high prevalence. One challenge that cardiovascular patients face to achieve a better prognosis is to follow a healthy diet. This study focused on psychological factors linked to adaptation to a healthy diet in these patients. The main objective was to analyze the interrelationship between motivation to follow a healthy diet and self-efficacy to adhere to the Mediterranean diet with life satisfaction over time. The sample consisted of cardiovascular patients who were assessed at three measurement moments (NT1 = 755; NT2 = 593; NT3 = 323, average interval time: nine months). Correlation analyses showed that self-efficacy, motivation, and life satisfaction followed a pattern of positive relations across the three measurements. A time effect over the study variables was also observed. The results of path analyses showed that self-efficacy positively predicted autonomous motivation, which in turn was associated with patients' life satisfaction. This interrelation was stable over a period of 18 months. Moreover, life satisfaction predicted self-efficacy nine months later. Psychological interventions might be a positive resource for cardiovascular patients, since psychological variables influence their life satisfaction and their subsequent quality of life in their new health condition.
%K cardiovascular disease
%K healthy diet
%K life satisfaction
%K motivation
%K self-efficacy
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