2023-09-26 06:00:06
Although there is increased awareness of high suicide rates among men, the mental health issues of this population have yet to be researched. Existential psychology, which studies questions related to sens and values, could provide a new perspective on this issue. Illustration image Pixabay
In order to better understand the psychological well-being of men, a team of research from McGill University and the University of British Columbia recently conducted a study on the possible relationship between their psychological distress and the meaning they give to their vie.
In a study of 364 men, researchers observed that subjects who felt they had found meaning in their lives were less likely to feel general psychological pressure, including symptoms of depression and anxiety. Two other key factors in Mental Health were studied: resilience and loneliness. The authors were thus able to determine that finding existential meaning, in addition to directly contributing to reducing psychological distress, could also reduce this distress indirectly by strengthening resilience and reducing feelings of loneliness.
These findings suggest that it may be possible to strengthen men’s resilience, break their loneliness, and ultimately reduce their psychological distress by designing and implementing psychotherapeutic interventions that help them make sense of to their lives. Researchers must now attempt to determine the most important sources of meaning for men at each stage of their lives.
“In order to support men and strengthen their mental health in our landscape changing and increasingly fragmented culture, we need to pay more attention to the presence or absence of meaning in their lives,” says Tyler Brown, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of medicine at McGill University and lead author of the study.
L’article “The influence of meaning in life on psychological distress among men: A serial multiple mediation model involving resilience and loneliness”, par Tyler L. Brown et coll., a Ă©tĂ© publiĂ© dans Current Research in Behavioral Sciences.
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