Mediating role of self-esteem and hope in predicting quality of life among forensic psychiatric patients with homicide offenses
Mariye Jenabi Ghods, Ladan Fattah Moghaddam, Tahereh Gilvari, Amirreza Rafiei Javazm, Mahshad Naserpour, Mohammad Javad Hosseinabadi‑Farahani · 2026
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Ghods and co-authors studied 58 men held as forensic psychiatric inpatients at Razi Psychiatric Hospital after homicide offenses, asking what shapes their quality of life. Their 2026 study measured self-esteem, meaning how much a person values himself, and hope, meaning a sense that goals can still be reached. They used standard questionnaires and tested whether hope carries part of the link between self-esteem and daily well-being.
Both traits tracked with better quality of life, and the link from self-esteem ran largely through hope in the team's mediation analysis of the survey answers. The indirect path through hope scored 11.2 points on the quality scale, while the direct path left after accounting for hope was small and not significant. Together, self-esteem and hope explained 47 percent of the differences in quality of life scores across these patients.
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| CREATOR | Mariye Jenabi Ghods, Ladan Fattah Moghaddam, Tahereh Gilvari, Amirreza Rafiei Javazm, Mahshad Naserpour, Mohammad Javad Hosseinabadi‑Farahani |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |