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Psychological Resilience and Positive Emotional Granularity: Examining the Benefits of Positive Emotions on Coping and Health
"... ABSTRACT For centuries, folk theory has promoted the idea that positive emotions are good for your health. Accumulating empirical evidence is providing support for this anecdotal wisdom. We use the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions (Fredrickson, 1998; 2001) as a framework to demonstrate ..."
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ABSTRACT For centuries, folk theory has promoted the idea that positive emotions are good for your health. Accumulating empirical evidence is providing support for this anecdotal wisdom. We use the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions (Fredrickson, 1998; 2001) as a framework to demonstrate that positive emotions contribute to psychological and physical well-being via more effective coping. We argue that the health benefits advanced by positive emotions may be instantiated in
Can positive employees help positive organizational change
- Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
, 2008
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This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Management Department at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska- Lincoln. It has
1 Psychology and Global Climate Change: Addressing a Multi-faceted Phenomenon and Set of Challenges A Report by the American Psychological Association’s Task Force on the Interface Between Psychology and Global Climate Change Members
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Addressing climate change: Psychology’s contribution
Experimental analysis of a web-based training intervention to develop positive psychological capital. Academy of Management Learning
- and Education
, 2008
"... Psychological capital with components of hope, self-efficacy, optimism, and resiliency has recently emerged as a core construct in taking positive psychology to the workplace. A distinguishing feature is that it is “state-like ” and thus open to development. We analyze whether such psychological cap ..."
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Psychological capital with components of hope, self-efficacy, optimism, and resiliency has recently emerged as a core construct in taking positive psychology to the workplace. A distinguishing feature is that it is “state-like ” and thus open to development. We analyze whether such psychological capital can be developed through a highly focused, 2-hour web-based training intervention. Using a pretest, posttest experimental design (n 187 randomly assigned to the treatment group and n 177 to the control group), we found support that psychological capital can be developed by such a training intervention. Although the importance of positivity has been given attention through the years, only recently has it been proposed as a new (or at least renewed) lens to focus study on organizational behavior
Positive psychology: The science at the heart of coaching
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"... WHAT YOU WILL understand by the end of this chapter is how the new field of positive psychology provides a robust theoretical and empirical base for the artful practice of life and executive coaching. But first, what exactly is positive psychology, and how is it different from business as usual? Thr ..."
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WHAT YOU WILL understand by the end of this chapter is how the new field of positive psychology provides a robust theoretical and empirical base for the artful practice of life and executive coaching. But first, what exactly is positive psychology, and how is it different from business as usual? Through the years, traditional psychology has focused on ways to help make ill people better by finding clinically valid and empirically supported methods to help fix things that are wrong with them. The mission of positive psychology is to develop sound theories of optimal functioning and to find empirically supported ways to improve the lives of ordinary and extraordinary people. In this chapter the author will present a number of emerging trends in positive psychology theory and research and explore their applications to coaching. I’ll walk you through studies of positive emotion, flow (ac-cessing the zone), hope therapy, and classification of strengths. Each set of studies offers a rich resource of knowledge that can be mined for po-tential coaching interventions. The chapter is not an overarching per-spective on the coaching process, as this is described in other chapters
saTisFaCTion WiTh liFE and hoPE: a looK aT aGE and maRiTal sTaTus
"... The adult Trait hope scale (snyder et al., 1991) typically has been administered to samples of college students, and previous researchers have not explored key demographic variables. in a large sample of community persons who were not in college (N = 215), significant differences were detected in ho ..."
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The adult Trait hope scale (snyder et al., 1991) typically has been administered to samples of college students, and previous researchers have not explored key demographic variables. in a large sample of community persons who were not in college (N = 215), significant differences were detected in hope scale scores across differing age groups and marital status. specifically, hope was lower for the older cohort (age 54-65) and for those who were separated, divorced, or widowed. Comparative results between hope and satisfaction with life measures indicate somewhat similar outcomes, except with age. These findings are discussed. a myriad of factors can contribute to whether or not individuals perceive that they are satisfied with their lives. Pavot and diener (1993) identified two components, affective and cognitive. Bailey, Eng, Frisch, and snyder (2006) found that hope is a unique predictor of an individual’s life satisfaction. a number of researchers have also found significant relationships between
A psychologically plausible goal-based utility function. Informing Science: the International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 11, 227-252. Retrieved from http://inform.nu/Articles/Vol11/ISJv11p227-252Gill220.pdf Gill, T.G. (2008b). Reflections on
- Informing Science: the International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline
, 2007
"... Utility is a concept that is central to economics, finance, and decision theory. In the informing sciences, it also plays a central role: that of explaining the client’s motivation to be informed. Un-fortunately, existing economic models of utility are plagued by many anomalies when applied to indiv ..."
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Utility is a concept that is central to economics, finance, and decision theory. In the informing sciences, it also plays a central role: that of explaining the client’s motivation to be informed. Un-fortunately, existing economic models of utility are plagued by many anomalies when applied to individual clients and also fail to incorporate many important features that are relevant to inform-ing contexts, such as the desire for mastery and learning. The present paper draws upon goal set-ting theory and cognitive psychology to propose an alternative view of utility that is better adapted to informing situations. It further proposes that in a given task setting, an individual’s utility function will evolve with experience, from satisfying loose generic goals into a highly compiled task progress monitoring function. During the course of this evolution, the client will pass through a phase where utility is heavily determined by progress towards specific task goals. The implications of this more psychologically plausible model of utility for informing systems are discussed.
Happiness in the Face of Adversity: Reformulating the Dynamic and Modular Bases of Subjective Well-Being
, 2005
"... Addressing diversity and apparent contradictions in manifestations of happiness, this article delineates subjective well-being (SWB) as a dynamic system in the face of possible adversity. SWB constitutes a favorable psychological environment that regu-lates the hostile-world scenario, defined as one ..."
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Addressing diversity and apparent contradictions in manifestations of happiness, this article delineates subjective well-being (SWB) as a dynamic system in the face of possible adversity. SWB constitutes a favorable psychological environment that regu-lates the hostile-world scenario, defined as one’s image of actual or potential threats to one’s life or integrity. SWB operates in various modules: experiential, wherein private awareness of SWB dwells on relevant core themes; declarative, wherein public self-reports of SWB function as social behavior; differential, wherein synchronic dimensions of SWB form well-being types; and narrative, wherein diachronic valences of SWB construct trajectories along one’s life story. By explicating the regulatory and configurational nature of SWB, the present conceptualization emphasizes the process, rather than the outcome, of pursuing happiness.
Promoting Hope: Suggestions for School Counselors
- Professional School Counseling
, 2008
"... School counselors need multiple resources to assist today’s students in developing to their fullest potential. This development might often be measured outwardly by academic success; however, psychological and emo-tional well-being of students is a large part of this suc-cess. The construct of hope ..."
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School counselors need multiple resources to assist today’s students in developing to their fullest potential. This development might often be measured outwardly by academic success; however, psychological and emo-tional well-being of students is a large part of this suc-cess. The construct of hope is defined as a bidimension-al characteristic consisting of an agency component (willpower to move toward one’s goals) and a path-ways component (ability to develop multiple routes to one’s goals) and has been linked to academic success, athletic performance, psychological adjustment, and physical health in students (Snyder et al., 1991). Helping school counselors to enhance individual strengths through the promotion of characteristics such as hope may result in multiple benefits for students
What we regret most are lost opportunities: A theory of regret intensity
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
, 2009
"... and debilitating as it may be, regret can in theory also motivate corrective action (Markman, McMullen, & Elizaga, 2008; Roese, 1994; Zeelenberg, 1999). If regret arises primarily following outcomes that offer opportu-nities for improvement, then the experience of regret may well be worth the em ..."
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and debilitating as it may be, regret can in theory also motivate corrective action (Markman, McMullen, & Elizaga, 2008; Roese, 1994; Zeelenberg, 1999). If regret arises primarily following outcomes that offer opportu-nities for improvement, then the experience of regret may well be worth the emotional pain. The purpose of this research was to determine whether people experi-ence greater regret over things they believe they can change or things they believe they once could but now cannot change. Contrary to a recent theory of regret (Roese & Summerville, 2005; Saffrey, Summerville, & Roese, 2008), this research suggests strongly that people regret lost opportunities. As Helen Rowland points out in the quotation above, the opportunity one once had but now has not elicits the most intense regret. THE (FUTURE) OPPORTUNITY PRINCIPLE Regret has been described as a “comparison-based emotion of self-blame, experienced when people realize or imagine that their present situation would have been better had they decided differently in the past” Authors ’ Note: We thank Neal Roese, Diederik Stapel, and an anony-mous reviewer for their comments on a previous draft of this manu-script. Direct correspondence to Denise R. Beike at the University of
