Psychological Well-Being and Ill-Being: Do They Have Distinct or Mirrored Biological Correlates?

By C. Ryff, Gayle Dienberg Love, Heather L. Urry, D. Muller, M. Rosenkranz, E. Friedman, Richard J. Davidson, Burton H. Singer. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 2006

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Differences between Peer Victimization in Cyber and Physical Settings and Associated Psychosocial Adjustment in Early Adolescence (2009, background): “Divergent validity for the CES-D has been found using measures of positive affect and emotionality (Joseph, 2006; Ryff et al., 2006).”
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Defining the ‘positive’ in positive psychology: Part I. A descriptive analysis (2016, background): “In one study, researchers (Ryff et al., 2006) tested nine biomarkers to see if they behaved as distinct or mirrored characteristics and found that seven behaved as distinct characteristics and two behaved in a mirrored way.”
Self-Determination Theory and Diminished Functioning (2011, background): “…has found that biomarkers of well-being and ill-being are primarily “distinct” (i.e., wellbeing and ill-being have different biological signatures) as opposed to “mirrored” (i.e., well-being and ill-being correlate similarly with biomarkers but show opposite directional signs; Ryff et al., 2006).”