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No, it is saying that having perseverence and working towards goals helps: “Our findings suggest that people can improve their mental health by raising or main
by cpncrunch 6y ago
No, it is saying that having perseverence and working towards goals helps:
“Our findings suggest that people can improve their mental health by raising or maintaining high levels of tenacity, resilience and optimism,” she said. “Aspiring toward personal and career goals can make people feel like their lives have meaning. On the other hand, disengaging from striving toward those aims or having a cynical attitude can have high mental health costs.”
- podgaj 6y agoAnd I am saying they are mistaking correlation with causation.
- cpncrunch 6y agoThat seems unlikely, since they didn't find any correlation between baseline depression and future goals, only between baseline goals and future depression. "Greater within-subject increased goal persistence (but not positive reappraisal or self-mastery) led to larger future declines in disorder counts. However, within-subject change in disorder counts did not substantially influence future change in each cognitive or behavioral strategy"
- podgaj 6y agoThey were not studying people with depression and anxiety, it was a general population. So this might work for people in general, but not with people with depression and anxiety. Participants were 3,294 community-dwelling adults ages 45.62 years