Quality of life of adolescents with asthma: The role of personality, coping strategies, and symptom reporting

The results show that personality is related to QOL in adolescents with asthma. These relations were fully mediated by coping and symptom reporting. This study sheds light on the underlying mechanism why personality is associated with QOL. The results of this study will help to understand what determines QOL in patients with chronic illness in general and adolescents with asthma specifically. Furthermore, the results will help to design interventions that could facilitate minimizing the negative effects of having asthma on the QOL of these adolescents.