The mediating roles of personal mastery and health-promoting behaviors in the relationship between self-regulatory fatigue and quality of life among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

Guiqiu Fang; Weidong Gong; Lihua Xia; Liping Li; Peng Sun; Jie Song; Yufeng Cui; Xiaochun Tang; Youxing Wu; Panfeng Li; Xiaoyan Zhang; Xing Ni; Feng Lu; Jiangyun Ru; Jun Yin; Yuanzhi Li; Zhangyi Wang

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0349561

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The mediating roles of personal mastery and health-promoting behaviors in the relationship between self-regulatory fatigue and quality of life among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

Guiqiu Fang ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

¶☯ Guiqiu Fang, Weidong Gong, Lihua Xia, Liping Li, and Zhangyi Wang contributed equally to this study.

Affiliation Department of Nursing, Tianjin Fourth Central Hospital, Tianjin, China
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Weidong Gong ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

¶☯ Guiqiu Fang, Weidong Gong, Lihua Xia, Liping Li, and Zhangyi Wang contributed equally to this study.

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Surgery / National Key Clinical Construction Specialist General Surgery, Affiliated Hengyang Hospital of Hunan Normal University & Hengyang Central Hospital, Hengyang, Hunan Province, China
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Lihua Xia ,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

¶☯ Guiqiu Fang, Weidong Gong, Lihua Xia, Liping Li, and Zhangyi Wang contributed equally to this study.

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Surgery / National Key Clinical Construction Specialist General Surgery, Affiliated Hengyang Hospital of Hunan Normal University & Hengyang Central Hospital, Hengyang, Hunan Province, China
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Liping Li ,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

¶☯ Guiqiu Fang, Weidong Gong, Lihua Xia, Liping Li, and Zhangyi Wang contributed equally to this study.

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Surgery / National Key Clinical Construction Specialist General Surgery, Affiliated Hengyang Hospital of Hunan Normal University & Hengyang Central Hospital, Hengyang, Hunan Province, China
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Peng Sun,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Deanery Department, Tianjin First Central Hospital, Tianjin, China
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Jie Song,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Nursing, Tianjin Fourth Central Hospital, Tianjin, China
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Yufeng Cui,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Nursing, Tianjin Fourth Central Hospital, Tianjin, China
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Xiaochun Tang,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Surgery / National Key Clinical Construction Specialist General Surgery, Affiliated Hengyang Hospital of Hunan Normal University & Hengyang Central Hospital, Hengyang, Hunan Province, China
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Youxing Wu,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Surgery / National Key Clinical Construction Specialist General Surgery, Affiliated Hengyang Hospital of Hunan Normal University & Hengyang Central Hospital, Hengyang, Hunan Province, China
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Panfeng Li,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Surgery / National Key Clinical Construction Specialist General Surgery, Affiliated Hengyang Hospital of Hunan Normal University & Hengyang Central Hospital, Hengyang, Hunan Province, China
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Xiaoyan Zhang,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Surgery / National Key Clinical Construction Specialist General Surgery, Affiliated Hengyang Hospital of Hunan Normal University & Hengyang Central Hospital, Hengyang, Hunan Province, China
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Xing Ni,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Surgery / National Key Clinical Construction Specialist General Surgery, Affiliated Hengyang Hospital of Hunan Normal University & Hengyang Central Hospital, Hengyang, Hunan Province, China
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Feng Lu ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: 283537548@qq.com (ZYW), 25718984@qq.com (YZL), 4588496620@qq.com (JY), 45333360@qq.com (JYR), 176086269@qq.com (FL)

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Surgery / National Key Clinical Construction Specialist General Surgery, Affiliated Hengyang Hospital of Hunan Normal University & Hengyang Central Hospital, Hengyang, Hunan Province, China
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Jiangyun Ru ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: 283537548@qq.com (ZYW), 25718984@qq.com (YZL), 4588496620@qq.com (JY), 45333360@qq.com (JYR), 176086269@qq.com (FL)

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Surgery / National Key Clinical Construction Specialist General Surgery, Affiliated Hengyang Hospital of Hunan Normal University & Hengyang Central Hospital, Hengyang, Hunan Province, China
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Jun Yin ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: 283537548@qq.com (ZYW), 25718984@qq.com (YZL), 4588496620@qq.com (JY), 45333360@qq.com (JYR), 176086269@qq.com (FL)

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Surgery / National Key Clinical Construction Specialist General Surgery, Affiliated Hengyang Hospital of Hunan Normal University & Hengyang Central Hospital, Hengyang, Hunan Province, China
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Yuanzhi Li ,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: 283537548@qq.com (ZYW), 25718984@qq.com (YZL), 4588496620@qq.com (JY), 45333360@qq.com (JYR), 176086269@qq.com (FL)

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Surgery / National Key Clinical Construction Specialist General Surgery, Affiliated Hengyang Hospital of Hunan Normal University & Hengyang Central Hospital, Hengyang, Hunan Province, China
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Zhangyi Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: 283537548@qq.com (ZYW), 25718984@qq.com (YZL), 4588496620@qq.com (JY), 45333360@qq.com (JYR), 176086269@qq.com (FL)

¶☯ Guiqiu Fang, Weidong Gong, Lihua Xia, Liping Li, and Zhangyi Wang contributed equally to this study.

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Surgery / National Key Clinical Construction Specialist General Surgery, Affiliated Hengyang Hospital of Hunan Normal University & Hengyang Central Hospital, Hengyang, Hunan Province, China

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6370-8848

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The mediating roles of personal mastery and health-promoting behaviors in the relationship between self-regulatory fatigue and quality of life among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

Guiqiu Fang,
Weidong Gong,
Lihua Xia,
Liping Li,
Peng Sun,
Jie Song,
Yufeng Cui,
Xiaochun Tang,
Youxing Wu,
Panfeng Li

Published: May 15, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0349561

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