Reference code: | PT/FB/BL-2010-096.06 |
Location: | Arquivo PCA - Pasta 8/2010
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Title:
| Trait hedonic and eudemonic Well-being and diurnal cortisol patterns
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Publication year: | 2013
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URL:
| http://www.psychosomatic.org/anmeeting/PDF/2013abstractBooklet.pdf
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Abstract/Results: | ABSTRACT:
The field of Positive Psychology has generated interest into the beneficial health outcomes of trait well-being. Two strands of wellbeing are documented: hedonia, which refers to pleasure and satisfaction in life and eudaimonia which refers more to meaning and fulfilment in life. Debate exists within the literature over the relative independence and importance of these two strands of well-being for health. Although well-being has been related to cortisol secretion studies have mostly been in middle-aged and older populations and have focused on hedonic, largely ignoring eudemonic, aspects of wellbeing. This study aimed to explore the independence of hedonic and eudemonic well-being and examine relationships with cortisol secretion in a young healthy female sample. Participants (n=50; mean age 21 years) completed measures of trait hedonic well-being (e.g. subjective happiness and life satisfaction), trait eudemonic well-being (e.g. psychological well-being) and ill-being (e.g. perceived stress and depression). Over four study days’ participants collected saliva samples at 0, 15, 30 and 45 min postawakening to measure the cortisol awakening response, and again at 3 and 12 hr post-awakening to measure the diurnal decline. Objective measures of awakening and adherence to the saliva sampling protocol were taken to encourage and monitor adherence to the protocol. Factor analyses of a larger population from which this sample was taken (n=240; mean age 21 years) showed that there were two components of well-being which were interpreted as hedonic well-being and eudemonic ill-being. Non-adherent saliva samples were excluded; well-being or ill-being was not related to the cortisol awakening response or the diurnal decline. We conclude that in a study carefully controlled for adherence to protocol in healthy young females neither hedonic well-being nor eudemonic ill-being was related to patterns of cortisol secretion. Relationships between trait well-being and cortisol secretion may emerge in later life as a consequence of neurotoxicity across the lifespan.
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Accessibility: | Document does not exist in file
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Language:
| eng
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Author:
| Smyth, N.
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Secondary author(s):
| Evans, P., Thorn, L., Hucklebridge, F., Clow, A.
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Document type:
| Abstract book
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Number of reproductions:
| 1
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Reference:
| Smyth, N., Evans, P., Thorn, L., Hucklebridge, F., & Clow, A. (2013). Trait hedonic and eudemonic Well-being and diurnal cortisol patterns. Abstracts of the American Psychosomatic Society 71st Annual Meeting: “Impact and Innovation” (A - 88). Miami, FL.
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Indexed document: | No
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Keywords: | Well-being / Hedonia / Eudaimonia / Cortisol awakening response / Cortisol
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Trait hedonic and eudemonic Well-being and diurnal cortisol patterns |
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