Personal Projects and Psychological Well-Being: Emerging Adults With and Without Diabetes.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The goal of this study was to examine the nature of the personal projects that emerging adults with and without diabetes were pursuing and the implications of those projects for psychological well-being.

Methods

We asked emerging adults with and without type 1 diabetes to identify five personal projects, rate four dimensions of those projects (importance, typicality, stress, and progress), and complete several well-being measures (depressive symptoms, life purpose, life satisfaction, perceived stress, and resilience) when they were age 19. Those with diabetes also indicated the extent to which diabetes interfered with each of the projects. We followed participants for 1 year to determine the status of projects and reassess project dimensions and psychological well-

SUBMITTER: Helgeson VS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6365091 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature