Authors
Carol D Ryff, Gayle Dienberg Love, Heather L Urry, Daniel Muller, Melissa A Rosenkranz, Elliot M Friedman, Richard J Davidson, Burton Singer
Publication date
2006/3/1
Journal
Psychotherapy and psychosomatics
Volume
75
Issue
2
Pages
85-95
Publisher
S. Karger AG
Description
Background: Increasingly, researchers attend to both positive and negative aspects of mental health. Such distinctions call for clarification of whether psychological well-being and ill-being comprise opposite ends of a bipolar continuum, or are best construed as separate, independent dimensions of mental health. Biology can help resolve this query – bipolarity predicts ‘mirrored’ biological correlates (i.e. well-being and ill-being correlate similarly with biomarkers, but show opposite directional signs), whereas independence predicts ‘distinct’ biological correlates (i.e. well-being and ill-being have different biological signatures). Methods: Multiple aspects of psychological well-being (eudaimonic, hedonic) and ill-being (depression, anxiety, anger) were assessed in a sample of aging women (n = 135, mean age = 74) on whom diverse neuroendocrine (salivary cortisol, epinephrine, norepinephrine, DHEA-S …
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