This doesn't seem to say what the title says. It reads more like "self motivation has inverse correlation with depression, anxiety". I.e. it's not a matter of

This doesn't seem to say what the title says. It reads more like "self motivation has inverse correlation with depression, anxiety". I.e. it's not a matter of telling people to have a goal to avoid depression, but rather that people who are self motivated are also less prone to depression. That seems almost obvious, and it causes less cognitive dissonance for me.