Using Mobile Phones to Examine and Enhance Perceptions of Control in Mildly Depressed and Nondepressed Volunteers: Intervention Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Perceived control is strongly linked to healthy outcomes, mental healthiness, and psychological well-being. This is particularly important when people have little control over things that are happening to them. Perceived control studies have been performed extensively in laboratory settings and show that perceived control can be increased by experimental manipulations. Although these studies suggest that it may be possible to improve people's mental health by increasing their perceived control, there is very little evidence to date to suggest that perceived control can also be influenced in the real world.

Objective

The first aim of this study was to test for evidence of a link between noncontrol situations and psychological well-being in the real world using a mo

SUBMITTER: Msetfi R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6251979 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature