4.2. The mediating role of quality of life
sleep disorders
This study further explored how sleep disorders contributed to relapse inclination and discovered that quality of life might be a mediator of this relationship, supporting hypothesis 2. The first path, wherein sleep disorders were negatively related to quality of life, was in line with previous research. According to the four-dimensional model of quality of life, there are four aspects of quality of life: physical health, mental health, social health, and spiritual health (The second path of the mediation model, wherein quality of life was negatively related to relapse inclination, was supported by relevant studies. After implementing a “community intensification” strategy to enhance the social and environmental quality of life for alcohol-dependent individuals, Hunter and Azrin discovered that participants had high rates of abstinence (