I left the DC Convention Center that night with a feeling that despite all my "healthy skepticism" and prerequisite intellectual dissatisfaction with the present functioning of our political system, perhaps some of our public servants were in fact truly interested in serving the public... or at the very least weren't nearly as bad as they seemed on Hardball.
Among healthy general population subjects, life dissatisfaction has also been shown to predict several poor health outcomes such as psychiatric morbidity [ 11], depressive symptoms [ 14], total mortality [ 9], suicides [ 15] and fatal unintentional injury deaths [ 16], as well as premature work disability due to somatic and psychiatric causes [ 17] in follow-ups of over a decade.
Life dissatisfaction, even reported by seemingly healthy subjects, is associated with several indicators of poor health or health risk factors, but especially with depressive symptoms [ 9- 11].
This study aimed to examine the long-term course of life satisfaction in healthy adults and to determine how strongly self-reported life dissatisfaction predicts future life dissatisfaction.
It also reduces body dissatisfaction and even leads to healthier eating behavior (relevant to many New Year's resolutions!).
But when I look back on 2015, I don't think my healthy habits, or lack thereof, directly contributed to my dissatisfaction with the year's outcome.
On the other hand, after 24 weeks there were a decrease in depression symptoms (effect size =.36), body image dissatisfaction, binge eating symptoms (effect size =.38) and improvement on general healthy perception dimension of QOL.
Healthier Body Image "Cultural beauty messages set the stage for body-image dissatisfaction, but it is the importance we give these messages that contributes to the anxiety, stress and depression associated with body-image problems," write Dr. Claiborn, a psychologist in Manchester, N.H., and Ms. Pedrick, a registered nurse.
PWE in China had higher levels of anxiety and depression, dissatisfaction with family functioning and marital life, and less social support compared with healthy controls.
Specifically, participants reported dissatisfaction due to (1) having their concerns dismissed due to their status as ostensibly healthy athletes and (2) inadequate knowledge among care providers about issues specific to athletes.
