The longitudinal impact of a chronic physical health condition on subjective well-being.

OBJECTIVE Chronic health conditions (CHC) can have severe impacts on an individual's life, affecting well-being and mental health. Nonetheless, individuals show different response patterns of psychological adaptation following a CHC onset. This study aimed to identify profiles subjective (SWB) at 1 year before (T - 1), after + 4 years 4) the onset physical using seven indicators (health satisfaction, life energy, joy, worry, sadness, anger), examine transitions between identified profiles, determine predicting factors these transitions. METHOD Latent profile analysis latent transition was conducted sample 357 participants reporting drawn from Swiss Household Panel dataset. RESULTS Three were T 1: low, high, very high SWB. At 4, fourth vulnerable emerged. Transition showed that, overall, most probable stay in similar across time. However, recovery toward higher SWB delayed reaction lower appeared Factors low are better status, fewer negative events, financial scarcity, whereas emotional stability related CONCLUSION underlines importance personal Routine assessment personality traits would enable identifying greater risk CHC. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).