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Physical health problems, depressive mood, and cortisol secretion in old age: buffer effects of health engagement control strategies.

Author(s): Wrosch C, Schulz R, Miller GE, Lupien S, Dunne E

Health Psychol. 2007 May;26(3):341-9 Authors: Wrosch C, Schulz R, Miller GE, Lupien S, Dunne E

Article GUID: 17500621
Regret intensity, diurnal cortisol secretion, and physical health in older individuals: evidence for directional effects and protective factors.

Author(s): Wrosch C, Bauer I, Miller GE, Lupien S

Psychol Aging. 2007 Jun;22(2):319-30 Authors: Wrosch C, Bauer I, Miller GE, Lupien S

Article GUID: 17563187
Diurnal cortisol secretion and 2-year changes in older adults' physical symptoms: the moderating roles of negative affect and sleep.

Author(s): Wrosch C, Miller GE, Lupien S, Pruessner JC

Health Psychol. 2008 Nov;27(6):685-93 Authors: Wrosch C, Miller GE, Lupien S, Pruessner JC

Article GUID: 19025263
Depressive symptoms can be useful: self-regulatory and emotional benefits of dysphoric mood in adolescence.

Author(s): Wrosch C, Miller GE

J Pers Soc Psychol. 2009 Jun;96(6):1181-90 Authors: Wrosch C, Miller GE

Article GUID: 19469595
Goal adjustment capacities, coping, and subjective well-being: the sample case of caregiving for a family member with mental illness.

Author(s): Wrosch C, Amir E, Miller GE

J Pers Soc Psychol. 2011 May;100(5):934-46 Authors: Wrosch C, Amir E, Miller GE

Article GUID: 21381855
Goal disengagement, functional disability, and depressive symptoms in old age.

Author(s): Dunne E, Wrosch C, Miller GE

Health Psychol. 2011 Nov;30(6):763-70 Authors: Dunne E, Wrosch C, Miller GE

Article GUID: 21604877
Title:Depressive symptoms can be useful: self-regulatory and emotional benefits of dysphoric mood in adolescence.
Authors:Wrosch C,  Miller GE
Link:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19469595?dopt=Abstract
Category:J Pers Soc Psychol
PMID:19469595
Dept Affiliation: CRDH
1 Department of Psychology, Centre for Research in Human Development, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada. carsten.wrosch@concordia.ca

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Depressive symptoms can be useful: self-regulatory and emotional benefits of dysphoric mood in adolescence.

J Pers Soc Psychol. 2009 Jun;96(6):1181-90

Authors: Wrosch C, Miller GE

Abstract

Propositions derived from evolutionary biology and personality psychology suggest that depressive symptoms may serve adaptive functions by enabling people to adjust to unattainable goals, which in turn promotes quality of life. The authors tested this hypothesis in a longitudinal study of adolescent girls involving 4 waves of data collected over approximately 19 months. The authors expected that high baseline levels of depressive symptoms would facilitate the development of adolescents' goal adjustment capacities (i.e., goal disengagement capacities and goal reengagement capacities). In addition, the authors expected that improvements in goal adjustment capacities over time would presage lower levels of subsequent depressive symptoms. Data from the first 3 waves produced results demonstrating that baseline levels of depressive symptoms predicted an increase in goal disengagement capacities over time but not in goal reengagement capacities. Moreover, increases in goal disengagement capacities predicted a reduction in subsequent depressive symptoms. The findings suggest that depressive symptomatology may serve adaptive functions by facilitating the development of goal disengagement capacities in adolescence.

PMID: 19469595 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]