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Longitudinal intervention studies show that positive emotions help develop long-term resources such as psychological resilience and flourishing. [6] Positive emotions do not just signify current thriving: they can also create broader thought-action repertoires, which lead to increased resources and more satisfied lives. [4]
Key methods included mindfulness-based interventions, gratitude exercises, and strength identification, which aimed to build emotional resilience. Additionally, practices like savoring, cognitive reappraisal, and self-compassion were employed to foster positive emotions and coping strategies.
Psychological resilience, or mental resilience, is the ability to cope mentally and emotionally with a crisis, or to return to pre-crisis status quickly. [1]The term was popularized in the 1970s and 1980s by psychologist Emmy Werner as she conducted a forty-year-long study of a cohort of Hawaiian children who came from low socioeconomic status backgrounds.
[87] [g] High well-being is associated with frequent positive emotions and infrequent negative ones. [89] Moods are a closely related factor of well-being. They typically last longer than emotions and have a less specific origin and evaluative assessment. [90] Life satisfaction is the subjective judgment of a person about how well their life is ...
Resilience: The construct called "resilience" is characterized as positive coping and adaptation in the face of risk or adversity. [18] It is the "positive psychological capacity to rebound, to 'bounce back' from adversity, uncertainty, conflict, failure, or even positive change, progress, and increased responsibility" (Luthans, 2002, p. 702 ...
According to Fredrickson there is a wide variety of positive effects that positive emotions and experiences have on human lives. [52] Fredrickson notes two characteristics of positive emotions that differ from negative emotions: [53] Positive emotions do not seem to elicit specific action tendencies the same way that negative emotions do.
The five emotion-focused coping strategies identified by Folkman and Lazarus [13] are: disclaiming; escape-avoidance; accepting responsibility or blame; exercising self-control; and positive reappraisal. Emotion-focused coping is a mechanism to alleviate distress by minimizing, reducing, or preventing, the emotional components of a stressor. [19]
Ed Diener et al. (1999) suggested this equation: positive emotion – negative emotion = subjective well-being. Since tendency to positive emotion has a correlation of 0.8 with extroversion and tendency towards negative emotion is indistinguishable from neuroticism, the above equation could also be written as extroversion – neuroticism ...