Subjective Well-Being Mediates the Effects of Resilience and Mastery on Depression and Anxiety in a Large Community Sample of Young and Middle-Aged Adults

Abstract

Psychological well-being components are significant predictors of subjective well-being affect states that increase vulnerability to depression and anxiety.

Psychological wellbeing and the diathesis-stress hypothesis model: The role of psychological functioning and quality of relations in promoting subjective well-being in a life events study

“…A buffer theory of social support (Alloway & Bebbington, 1987) proposes that the presence of social relations or support networks, moderates effect of adverse environmental stressors that precipitate illness and disease. Also, a significant literature highlights the role of positive psychological function on wellbeing in organisational, epidemiological and clinical contexts across the lifespan (Burns & Machin, in press;Burns et al, 2011;Fava, 1999;Huppert & Whittington, 2003;Ruini, Belaise, Brombin, Caffo, & Fava, 2006). The results of this study confirm the role of psychological functioning in promoting positive and reducing negative wellbeing outcomes.…”

“…Finally, we test the effects of stressful life events on individual wellbeing, following a model of wellbeing (Huppert et al, 2009), that combines psychological function and feeling. There is considerable evidence for the independence of related wellbeing constructs that are either affective or cognitive-behavioural in basis (Burns & Machin, 2009Gallagher, Lopez, & Preacher, 2009), with stronger evidence for the role of psychological functioning in determining feeling components of wellbeing and mental health outcomes (Burns, Anstey, & Windsor, 2011;Burns & Machin, 2012). We posit that quality of social relations and psychological function moderate the effect of perceived impact of life event individual wellbeing.…”

Resilience and Its Association with Depression, Emotional and Behavioural Problems, and Mental Health Service Utilisation among Refugee Adolescents Living in South Australia

“…This may be critical as research has found that poor resilience predicted the development of psychological symptoms such as depression and anxiety [36], moderated the relationship between childhood adversity and psychiatric sequelae [37], or was a strong predictor of positive affect which in turn predicted depression and, to a lesser extent, anxiety [38]. Recent cross-sectional research with Norwegian adolescents has revealed a strong association between diminished resilience and psychological symptoms such as depression and anxiety [22,39].…”

Autocompaixão, bem-estar subjetivo e estado de saúde na idade avançada

“…Este dado sugere que a escolaridade pode exercer um papel protetor no envelhecimento cognitivo e na afetividade o que está de acordo com dados reportados em alguns estudos (Burns, Anstey e Windsor, 2011;Falcão, Espírito Santo, Matreno, Fermino e Guadalupe, 2012). Contudo, este mecanismo não se encontra completamente esclarecido e deverá ser alvo de investigação mais aprofundada, uma vez que a investigação tem produzido resultados mistos, apontando a interveniência de outras variáveis que influenciam esta ligação (Ardila, Ostrosky-Solis, Rosselli e Gómez, 2000).…”