Depressive Symptoms in Women and the Preference and Emotional Benefits of Discussing Positive Life Events

Hershenberg, Rachel; Leong, Shirley H.

doi:10.1521/jscp.2014.33.9.767

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“…Hershenberg, Davila, and Leong () proposed competing hypotheses about how depression might be associated with capitalization. One possibility was that depression might lessen the emotional benefits of capitalization, while, on the other hand, individuals with greater (vs. lesser) depressive symptoms might benefit more from capitalizing, presumably because they have more positive emotions to gain and negative emotions to lose.…”

Section: Intrapersonal Outcomes For Capitalizersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making the good even better: A review and theoretical model of interpersonal capitalization

Peters

Reis

Gable

2018

Social & Personality Psych

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When good things happen, individuals will often retell this good news to others, a process termed capitalization. In so doing, individuals sharing their good news (i.e., capitalizers)boost their mood and relationships with the person(s) to whom they retell their news (i.e., responders). Most extant research has focused on the benefits for the capitalizers.Capitalization, however, is a social process that affects both capitalizers and responders, and research has only begun to explore the benefits of capitalization for responders. In this article, we provide a fresh perspective on the state of this literature by proposing the interpersonal model of capitalization (InterCAP). We illustrate how InterCAP (a) integrates and organizes existing research and theory, (b) formally emphasizes the interpersonal and iterative nature of the capitalization process, and (c) identifies gaps in current knowledge. We conclude by offering recommendations for integrating InterCAP with other theoretical models and suggestions for future research.

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Section: Intrapersonal Outcomes For Capitalizersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making the good even better: A review and theoretical model of interpersonal capitalization

Peters

Reis

Gable

2018

Social & Personality Psych

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“…Empirical research on capitalization has focused almost exclusively on immediate psychological resource gains. Sharing a positive event has been found to increase positive affect (e.g., Gable et al, 2004;Lambert et al, 2013), happiness (Demir, Doğan, & Procsal, 2013;Lambert et al, 2013), positive emotions (Hershenberg, Davila, & Leong, 2014), life satisfaction (e.g., Gable et al, 2004), and vitality (e.g., Lambert et al, 2013). Supportive and engaged responses from partners also increase positive affect (e.g., Gable et al, 2004;Lambert et al, 2013;Langston, 1994;Reis et al, 2010), positive emotions (Monfort et al, 2014), and life satisfaction (Gable et al, 2004).…”

Section: Social Sharing or Capitalizationmentioning

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“…When these findings are extended to work relationships, implementing social sharing within workgroups or encouraging employees to share positive work events with coworkers could be an effective way to build volatile personal resources. Experimental studies on capitalization report positive results even when participants are assigned to share a positive experience with an unknown interviewer (e.g., Hershenberg et al, ). However, capitalization has potential pitfalls: Receiving an indifferent or hostile response can cause social sharing to backfire, damaging resources such as positive affect (Gable et al, ).…”

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Building personal resources through interventions: An integrative review

2017

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In recent years, a variety of disparate literatures have emerged to test interventions intended to increase individuals' psychological, cognitive, and physiological resources. Although many of these interventions were originally designed for individual or clinical use, a growing number of commentators have called for their adoption in organizations. But controversy remains about their efficacy in the workplace. We review the research literature on 6 interventions that have been used to build volatile personal resources: malleable, individual‐level constructs that are vital for withstanding work stress and proximal to work outcomes. In so doing, we evaluate the generalizability of these interventions to organizational settings, along with their potential benefits and costs. Our findings highlight new opportunities for both research and practice.

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“…Perhaps not surprisingly then, in the few exceptions when idiographic (person‐centered) stimuli are used in the laboratory, findings are less clear‐cut. For example, dysphoric and control participants show similar relative improvement in self‐reported level of positive emotion in response to viewing personally relevant happy film clips (Rottenberg et al., ), receiving positive feedback on task performance (Ellis, Beever, & Wells, 2009) or discussing a positive life event with an enthusiastic interviewer (Hershenberg, Davila, & Leong, ). These findings begin to contradict the assumption of a generalized emotional blunting in response to positive stimuli and underscore the importance of incorporating research methods more emblematic of the everyday uplifting life experiences of dysphoric individuals.…”

Section: Depression and Consummatory Reward Processingmentioning

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Depressive Symptoms and the Anticipation and Experience of Uplifting Events in Everyday Life

Starr

Hershenberg

2017

J Clin Psychol

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Despite proliferation of laboratory-based studies examining reward functioning in depression, few studies have examined these processes in everyday life. We addressed this shortcoming by exploring experience and anticipation of uplifting experiences under ecologically valid conditions METHOD: One hundred fifty-seven young adults, oversampled for depressive symptoms, completed a 14-day diary tracking mood in relation to recent and anticipated positive events RESULTS: Consistent with studies supporting "mood-brightening" effects in depression, participants with greater baseline dysphoria showed stronger associations between elevated daily uplifts and lower daily depressive symptoms, particularly when events were interpersonal in nature. Baseline dysphoria was associated with lower daily anticipation of positive next-day experiences; however, when dysphoric individuals did anticipate positive experiences, they experienced greater reductions in depressed mood CONCLUSION: Results suggest that despite reward processing deficits found in laboratory studies, dysphoric individuals show improvements in mood in conjunction with anticipation and consumption of uplifting events in daily life.

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Depressive Symptoms in Women and the Preference and Emotional Benefits of Discussing Positive Life Events

Cited by 15 publications

References 50 publications

Making the good even better: A review and theoretical model of interpersonal capitalization

Making the good even better: A review and theoretical model of interpersonal capitalization

Building personal resources through interventions: An integrative review

Depressive Symptoms and the Anticipation and Experience of Uplifting Events in Everyday Life

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