Flexible and tenacious goal pursuit lead to improving well-being in an aging population: a ten-year cohort study

Kelly, Rebecca E.; Wood, Alex M.; Mansell, Warren

doi:10.1017/s1041610212001391

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“…These findings also point to the primacy of accommodative flexibility as an adaptive self-regulatory mechanism in responding to situations involving irrevocable loss and limitation. Conflicting findings have been observed in a recently published 10-year longitudinal study of an ageing population, however, with individuals who scored high on both TGP and FGA experiencing the largest decreases in depressive symptoms, hostility, and physical ill-health (Kelly, Wood, & Mansell, 2013). Further research is thus required to clarify the nature of the interaction between these two modes in both normative and non-normative situations.…”

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Goal pursuit, goal adjustment, and affective well‐being following lower limb amputation

Coffey

Desmond

Ryall

2013

British J Health Psychol

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Objectives. This study examined the relationships between tenacious goal pursuit (TGP), flexible goal adjustment (FGA), and affective well-being in a sample of individuals with lower limb amputations.Design. Cross-sectional, quantitative.Methods. Ninety-eight patients recently admitted to a primary prosthetic rehabilitation programme completed measures of TGP, FGA, positive affect, and negative affect.Results. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that TGP and FGA accounted for a significant proportion of the variance in both positive and negative affect, controlling for sociodemographic and clinical characteristics. TGP was significantly positively associated with positive affect, while FGA was significantly negatively associated with negative affect.Moderated regression analyses indicated that the beneficial effect of FGA on negative affect was strongest at high levels of amputation-related pain intensity, and low levels of TGP.Discussion. TGP and FGA appear to influence subjective well-being in different ways, with TGP promoting the experience of positive affect and FGA buffering against negative affect.TGP and FGA may prove useful in identifying individuals at risk for poor affective outcomes following lower limb amputation, and represent important targets for intervention in this patient group.3

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Goal pursuit, goal adjustment, and affective well‐being following lower limb amputation

Coffey

Desmond

Ryall

2013

British J Health Psychol

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“…Moreover, unattainable and attainable goals could actually be bound up together in the same processes, such that assimilation and accommodation strategies are used in combination with each other. In support of this proposition, a 10-year cohort study of an ageing population conducted by Kelly et al [35] found that individuals who had strong tendencies towards the use of both modes experienced greatest decreases in symptoms of depression, hostility and physical ill-health over this period. Furthermore, a significant positive correlation between the use of assimilative and accommodative strategies among individuals receiving rehabilitative treatment for vision loss and lower-limb amputation has also been documented [8,26].…”

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“If I can do it I will do it, if I can’t, I can’t”: a study of adaptive self-regulatory strategies following lower limb amputation

Dunne

Coffey

Desmond

2014

Disability and Rehabilitation

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The findings point towards key assimilative/goal pursuit and accommodative/goal adjustment strategies that may be adaptive following lower limb amputation. The study highlights the potential usefulness of the dual-process model in understanding how individuals adapt to functional disability, while bringing to light issues warranting further explication within this framework. Implications for Rehabilitation People adopt specific adaptive goal pursuit and goal adjustment strategies in response to goal disruptions following limb loss. Being aware of the processes involved in regulating goals in response to challenges is useful for understanding adjustment to limb loss. Greater understanding of adaptive and maladaptive goal strategies may help the rehabilitation team to foster positive outcomes in people with lower limb amputation.

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“…For example, in a cohort of 5,666 adults aged 51-56, Kelly, Wood and Mansell (2013) found that tenacity and flexibility at baseline predicted depression symptoms measured 10 years later, such that individuals low in tenacity or flexibility had a higher risk of increases in depression symptoms, and people low in both these traits had a particularly high risk. In a study of the same cohort, Wood and Joseph (2010) found that individuals low on existential measures of well-being (self acceptance, autonomy, purpose in life, positive relationships with others, environmental mastery, and personal growth) were over seven times more likely to meet the cut-off for clinical depression at ten year follow-up.…”

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Integrating Positive and Clinical Psychology: Viewing Human Functioning as Continua from Positive to Negative Can Benefit Clinical Assessment, Interventions and Understandings of Resilience

Johnson

Wood

2015

Cogn Ther Res

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In this review we argue in favour of further integration between the disciplines of positive and clinical psychology. We argue that most of the constructs studied by both positive and clinical psychology exist on continua ranging from positive to negative (e.g., gratitude to ingratitude, anxiety to calmness) and so it is meaningless to speak of one or other field studying the "positive" or the "negative". However, we highlight historical and cultural factors which have led positive and clinical psychologies to focus on different constructs; thus the difference between the fields is more due to the constructs of study rather than their being inherently "positive" or "negative". We argue that there is much benefit to clinical psychology of considering positive psychology constructs because; (a) constructs studied by positive psychology researchers can independently predict wellbeing when accounting for traditional clinical factors, both cross-sectionally and prospectively, (2) the constructs studied by positive psychologists can interact with risk factors to predict outcomes, thereby conferring resilience, (3) interventions that aim to increase movement towards the positive pole of well-being can be used encourage movement away from the negative pole, either in However, despite a clear alliance in these aims, there has been minimal work focused on integrating findings from these two literatures. In the present article, we argue that the large body of research conducted by positive psychological researchers represents an untapped resource for clinical psychologists, which could support clinical assessment and interventions with individuals with diagnosable disorders in practice.

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Flexible and tenacious goal pursuit lead to improving well-being in an aging population: a ten-year cohort study

Cited by 40 publications

References 28 publications

Goal pursuit, goal adjustment, and affective well‐being following lower limb amputation

Goal pursuit, goal adjustment, and affective well‐being following lower limb amputation

“If I can do it I will do it, if I can’t, I can’t”: a study of adaptive self-regulatory strategies following lower limb amputation

Integrating Positive and Clinical Psychology: Viewing Human Functioning as Continua from Positive to Negative Can Benefit Clinical Assessment, Interventions and Understandings of Resilience

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