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Author(s): Heather Herriot
Many older adults experience chronic age-related stressors (e.g., life regrets or health problems) that are difficult to control and can disturb cortisol regulation. Self-compassion may buffer adverse effects of these stressful experiences on diurnal cortis...
Article GUID: 29948541
| Title: | Self-compassion, chronic age-related stressors, and diurnal cortisol secretion in older adulthood |
| Authors: | Heather Herriot |
| Link: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29948541/ |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10865-018-9943-6 |
| Category: | J Behav Med |
| PMID: | 29948541 |
| Dept Affiliation: | PSYCHOLOGY
1 Department of Psychology and Centre for Research in Human Development, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, H4B 1R6, Canada. 2 Department of Psychology and Centre for Research in Human Development, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, H4B 1R6, Canada. carsten.wrosch@concordia.ca. |
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Many older adults experience chronic age-related stressors (e.g., life regrets or health problems) that are difficult to control and can disturb cortisol regulation. Self-compassion may buffer adverse effects of these stressful experiences on diurnal cortisol secretion in older adulthood. To examine whether self-compassion could benefit older adults' cortisol secretion in the context of chronic and largely uncontrollable age-related stressors, 233 community-dwelling older adults reported their... |
