Together, these challenges appear to contribute to psychological conflict and diminished well-being for many.
Basic need-satisfaction and career decision making self-efficacy positively predicted proactive exploration and commitment-making, while basic need-frustration predicted both diminished well-being and ill-being.
The negative consequences rise up in family conflict, addictions or diminished well-being, as Ann and Paul illustrate.
Endpoint criteria included loss of body weight exceeding 20% of initial body weight and general pattern of diminished well-being such as reduced movement and lethargy resulting from lack of interest in daily activities.
Becoming sick from stress diminishes well-being and the productivity of brain cells--since it becomes nearly impossible to think and reason effectively when you are under great stress.
Loneliness is a known risk factor (Bergendahl, Allard, Aléx, Lundman, & Gustafson, 2007; Cacioppo, Huges, Waite, Hawkley, & Thisted, 2006), but the relationship might have dual directions, and loneliness and depressive symptomatology can act synergistically to diminish well-being (Cacioppo et al., 2006).
In a study of the 911 terrorism attack in the USA, negative changes measured by the CiOQ were the most powerful predictors of heightened distress and diminished psychological well-being in both the short- and longer-term following the attack [ 37].
Excess weight is linked to diminished subjective well-being, including a poor quality of life [ 4], body dissatisfaction [ 5], low self-esteem [ 6], poor academic performance [ 7], depression [ 8], high levels of sadness and anxiety [ 9], and eating disorder pathology [ 10].
Consider the type of case where we can act in a way that diminishes the well-being of a person who lives above any plausibly construed threshold.
Drawing on Seligman ([1975]), the exposure to events perceived as uncontrollable, such as unemployment, bring about a feeling of helplessness, which diminishes psychological well-being and self-esteem and further undermines the motivation to control outcomes (Seligman [1975]; Goldsmith et al. [1997]).
Research shows that poor mental health not only severely diminishes employee well-being and quality of life; it also decreases productivity at work.
