Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí hóa học quốc tế đề tài : Reflections on changeability versus stability of health-related quality of life: distinguishing between its environmental and genetic components | BioMed Central Health and Quality of Life Outcomes Open Access Review Reflections on changeability versus stability of health-related quality of life distinguishing between its environmental and genetic components Mirjam AG Sprangers f1 and Carolyn E Schwartz 2 3 Address Department of Medical Psychology Academic Medical Center University of Amsterdam Meibergdreef 15 1105 AZ Amsterdam The Netherlands 2DeltaQuest Foundation Inc. Concord MA USA and 3Departments of Medicine and Orthopaedic Surgery Tufts University School of Medicine Boston MA USA Email Mirjam AG Sprangers - Carolyn E Schwartz - Corresponding author fEqual contributors Published 2 November 2008 Received 29 January 2008 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008 6 89 doi 1477-7525-6-89 Accepted 2 November 2008 This article is available from http content 6 1 89 2008 Sprangers and Schwartz licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract The field of health-related quality of life HRQOL could benefit from a broadening of perspectives to include recent advancements in research on adaptation positive psychology and genetics. These advances shed new light on the extent to which HRQOL is changeable or fixed. The objective of this paper is to integrate these insights and to discuss their implications for HRQOL research. We describe the Hedonic Treadmill theory which asserts that positive events only temporarily affect happiness since people quickly return to hedonic neutrality. New empirical evidence suggests important revisions of this theory providing a more optimistic picture of the possibility for change. Advances in positive psychology show that relatively simple interventions have
