The strength of pursuing your values: Valued living as a path to resilience among college students

Ceary, Chris D.; Donahue, John J.; Shaffer, Katharine S.

doi:10.1002/smi.2886

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“…Clinicians may also be encouraged to incorporate a focus on reflective functioning, promoting exploration of feelings and motives, in their work with men who are aiming for greater resilience and personal development. Helping men to enhance their reflective functioning may support their clarification and connection with personal values, the enactment of which may strengthen resilience (Ceary, Donahue, & Shaffer, 2019). While specific mentalization‐based therapies have been supported by randomized clinical trials (e.g., Bateman & Fonagy, 2008), reflective functioning may be an inherent aspect of any exploratory therapy (Luyten et al., 2020).…”

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“…-711 enhance their reflective functioning may support their clarification and connection with personal values, the enactment of which may strengthen resilience (Ceary, Donahue, & Shaffer, 2019). While specific mentalization-based therapies have been supported by randomized clinical trials (e.g., Bateman & Fonagy, 2008), reflective functioning may be an inherent aspect of any exploratory therapy (Luyten et al, 2020).…”

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Reflective functioning and men's mental health: Associations with resilience and personal growth initiative

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Mentalizing, or reflective functioning, refers to the capacity to reflect on one's own and others' mental states in terms of desires, intentions, and feelings. Reflective functioning in men's mental health is poorly understood, particularly in reference to men's resilience and motivation for personal growth. Using a cross-sectional design, the present study investigated impaired reflective functioning in relation to resilience and personal growth initiative among men with mental health concerns. An online sample of 1065 men self-reporting mental health concerns completed measures of reflective functioning, psychological distress, resilience, and personal growth initiative. Logistic regression examined reflective functioning in relation to likely serious mental illness, including interaction with age. Subsequent regression analyses controlled for distress severity in examining associations with resilience and personal growth initiative, and in examining the potential mediating role of reflective functioning. Impaired reflective functioning was significantly associated with serious psychological distress irrespective of age and, after controlling for distress severity, with resilience and personal growth initiative. Moreover, impaired reflective functioning was a significant mediator of the relationship between resilience and personal growth initiative. Findings provide preliminary support for reflective functioning as salient to men's resilience and agency for personal change, indicating a potentially important target in men's mental health work. K E Y W O R D Smentalizing, men's mental health, personal growth, reflective functioning, resilience | INTRODUCTIONGiven that men are disproportionately more likely than women to die by suicide (Oliffe et al., 2019), less likely to seek professional mental health care (Addis & Mahalik, 2003), and may evince unique externalizing depressive symptoms (Rice, Oliffe, Kealy, & Ogrodniczuk, 2018), researchers have increasingly focused attention on understanding factors that can impede or facilitate men's treatment engagement, resilience, and recovery (Seidler et al., 2019).

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“…It is the difference between individualistic understanding required by the adult in industrialized society versus the collective self-understanding of tribal societies [125]. As such, the resilient narrative of theses adults (as well as those children who do not grow up in an environment of trust and must become resilient on their own [136]) is not dependent on character; instead, it relies on plot development, where plot is what is personally valued by the individual in self-directing their life [137]. These plots can be considered as identity projects that are flexible and open to a number of possible selves [138].…”

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Enhancing Resilience Regarding Depression, Anxiety and COVID-19 with a Narrative Method of Ordering Memory Effective in Researchers Experiencing Burnout

Nash¹

2022

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Depression and anxiety are prevalent, persistent and difficult to treat industrialized world mental health problems. These disorders negatively modify an individual’s life perspective through brain function imbalances, notably in the amygdala and hippocampus, and are primarily treated with pharmaceuticals and psychotherapy. Nevertheless, these mental health issues have only increased in the number of individuals affected and the intensity of their suffering—especially as a result of COVID-19 restrictions and fears. An approach to alleviating depression and anxiety in relation to researchers self-identifying as experiencing burnout is promising. Enhancing resilience, the approach considers depression and anxiety as consequences of the particular method people adopt in ordering their memories, and focuses on narrative development. The method encourages accepting of different perspectives as unique and necessary in creating safe protection from research burnout. Moving from an identification of personal character to prompting plot development of memory, the method promotes resilience by encouraging thoughtful reconsideration of the negative assessments by participants of their circumstances that can lead to depression and anxiety. The method of ordering and group members’ feedback are inspected, including during the period of COVID-19 restrictions, and conclusions are offered regarding further research to encourage burnout resilience to diminish depression and anxiety.

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“…Living in accordance with one’s values is critical to preventing mental health problems in individuals experiencing stressful events and engaging in potentially harmful behaviors, and to promoting psychological well-being (Biglan et al, 2008; Ceary et al, 2019; Palfai et al, 2011). Valued living has also been identified as a pathway to resilience in college students who have experienced negative outcomes associated with stressful life events (Ceary et al, 2019). Further, valued living is a protective factor for decreased alcohol use in college students (Lecci et al, 2002; Palfai et al, 2011).…”

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Experiential Avoidance and Meaning in Life as Predictors of Valued Living: A Daily Diary Study

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Buchanan

2021

Journal of Prevention and Health Promotion

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Values-based interventions encourage engagement in valued living as a means to promote psychological well-being. Valued living is best operationalized as ongoing, reinforcing behavioral patterns consistent with idiographic values that facilitate psychological well-being and improved mental health. Cross-sectional research illustrates positive associations between valued living and well-being and negative associations between valued living and psychopathology. However, it is important to have an understanding of different daily-level factors that predict fluctuations in valued living. Consistent with cognitive and behavioral models, meaning may positively relate to engagement in valued living, while experiential avoidance negatively relates to valued living. To address these relationships at the daily level, we systematically examined valued living, meaning, and experiential avoidance using ecological momentary assessment across 14 days with 73 college students. Multilevel modeling supported a positive relationship between meaning (i.e., at both the within- and between-person level) and daily valued living, above and beyond the within-person effects of experiential avoidance. The results elucidate a daily link between valued living and aspects of well-being. Further, these results show that constructs commonly assessed cross-sectionally fluctuate at the daily level, which sets the stage for future research programs that examine factors promoting and inhibiting fluctuations in meaning, experiential avoidance, and valued living. These results have important implications for prevention of mental health problems and promotion of psychological well-being.

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The strength of pursuing your values: Valued living as a path to resilience among college students

Cited by 19 publications

References 44 publications

Reflective functioning and men's mental health: Associations with resilience and personal growth initiative

Reflective functioning and men's mental health: Associations with resilience and personal growth initiative

Enhancing Resilience Regarding Depression, Anxiety and COVID-19 with a Narrative Method of Ordering Memory Effective in Researchers Experiencing Burnout

Experiential Avoidance and Meaning in Life as Predictors of Valued Living: A Daily Diary Study

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