Savoring, resilience, and psychological well-being in older adults

Smith, Jennifer L.; Hollinger-Smith, Linda

doi:10.1080/13607863.2014.986647

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“…Savoring is "positively correlated with affect intensity, extraversion, optimism, internal locus of control, reported self-control behaviors, life satisfaction, value fulfillment, selfesteem, and intensity and frequency of happiness" and negatively associated with hopelessness, guilt, social anhedonia, and depression (Bryant, 2003, p. 175). Smith and Hollinger-Smith (2015) found that the relationship between one's perceived ability to savor positive experiences and happiness was stronger among those with lower resilience compared to those with higher resilience. According to Quoidbach, Berry, Hansenne, and Mikolajczak (2010), savoring strategies such as increasing attention on the present moment and positive rumination are associated with greater positive emotion, whereas talking through and sharing one's positive experiences with another individual is more strongly associated with greater life satisfaction.…”

Section: Savoring To Reduce Elevated Depressive Symptomatologymentioning

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Positive Emotion Infusions: Can Savoring Increase Help‐Seeking Intentions among People with Depression?

Straszewski

Siegel

2018

Applied Psych Health & Well

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Background:The current research effort used two experimental studies to assess whether a savoring-based, positive emotion infusion (PEI) could increase helpseeking intentions among individuals with elevated depressive symptomatology and whether this relationship would be mediated by positive emotion, arousal, and perceptions of personal control. Methods: In Study 1, participants with elevated depressive symptomatology, recruited from Amazon's Mechanical Turk (N = 135), were randomly assigned to complete a 6-minute savoring or control writing task followed by a help-seeking intentions scale. Study 2 participants (N = 136) were randomly assigned to the same tasks, but a scale assessing positive emotion, arousal, and personal control was added. Results: Study 1 indicated a direct effect; those who savored reported greater help-seeking intentions compared to control participants. Study 2 revealed an indirect effect of savoring on help-seeking intentions through greater positive emotion but not through greater arousal or perceptions of personal control. Conclusion: Together, these results offer additional support for continued research on PEIs, and specifically, savoring-based PEIs. Although the experimental manipulations may be limited in regard to their ecological validity, for those seeking to create interventions, these studies offer a novel and efficacious approach for motivating individuals with elevated depressive symptomatology to seek help.

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Section: Savoring To Reduce Elevated Depressive Symptomatologymentioning

confidence: 88%

Positive Emotion Infusions: Can Savoring Increase Help‐Seeking Intentions among People with Depression?

Straszewski

Siegel

2018

Applied Psych Health & Well

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“…The mental health benefit of savouring has been consistently illustrated among healthy populations in previous research. Savouring was found to be positively associated with positive emotions, life satisfaction, and self‐esteem and inversely associated with depressive symptoms, neuroticism and hopelessness across various studies (Bryant, Chadwick, & Kluwe, ; Quoidbach, Mikolajczak, & Gross, ; Smith & Hollinger‐Smith, ). Dispositional mindfulness predicted higher positive emotions and life satisfaction at 9‐week follow‐up if perceived capability of savouring the moment was higher (Kiken et al, ).…”

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“…Similarly, happiness could be sustained among individuals with high capability of savouring regardless of the number of positive daily events, whereas the level of happiness among those with lower capability of savouring was dependent of that (Jose et al, ). Although savouring was found to enhance older adults’ psychological well‐being across all levels of resilience, those with lower levels benefited the most from the capability to savour (Smith & Hollinger‐Smith, ).…”

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Savouring and psychological well‐being in family dyads coping with cancer: An actor–partner interdependence model

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Previous studies have investigated interdependence of the associations between predictors and negative psychological outcomes in dyads of cancer patients and family caregivers. This study examined the dyadic effects of perceived capability of savouring the moment on psychological well‐being. A total of 152 dyads of cancer patients and caregivers reported their perceived capability of savouring the moment (Savoring Beliefs Inventory), state positive affect (Chinese Affect Scale) and life satisfaction (Satisfaction With Life Scale) within 6 months following diagnosis. Actor–Partner Interdependence Model (APIM) demonstrated that patients’ and caregivers’ savouring the moment was positively associated with their own positive affect and life satisfaction (actor effects: βs = 0.309–0.603, 95% CIs = 0.171–0.502, 0.446–0.703, ps < 0.001). Patients’ savouring the moment was positively associated with caregivers’ positive affect (β = 0.158, 95% CI = 0.018, 0.299, p = 0.028), whereas caregivers’ savouring the moment was positively associated with patients’ life satisfaction (β = 0.158, 95% CI = 0.026, 0.289, p = 0.020). Partner effects between caregivers’ savouring the moment and patients’ positive affect and between patients’ savouring the moment and caregivers’ life satisfaction were not significant. The findings suggest the role of savouring in psychological well‐being within patient–caregiver dyads, highlighting the importance of investigating positive psychological pathways in their joint adaptation.

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“…Enriched physical and social environments may provide short-lived mild to moderate stressors that induce locus coeruleus neurons to release noradrenaline and facilitate the formation and maintenance of adaptive memories [47], a process that could enhance adaptive structural changes in the brain (brain reserve) and cognitive and socioemotional learning (cognitive reserve). Supporting the latter notion is a multiplicity of studies showing that mental and socioemotional factors—including positive coping, optimism, sense of purpose, self-efficacy, and social support—are correlated with the stress response [207], are essential for the maintenance of high resilience [208–215], and are vital for mitigating age-related cognitive decline [216–218]. …”

Section: Cognitive Engagement As a Component Of Healthy Lifestylementioning

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Lifestyle Modulators of Neuroplasticity: How Physical Activity, Mental Engagement, and Diet Promote Cognitive Health during Aging

Phillips¹

2017

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The number of the elderly across the globe will approximate 2.1 billion by 2050. Juxtaposed against this burgeoning segment of the population is evidence that nonpathological aging is associated with an increased risk for cognitive decline in a variety of domains, changes that can cause mild disability even before the onset of dementia. Given that pharmacological treatments that mitigate dementia are still outstanding, alternative therapeutic options are being investigated increasingly. The results from translational studies have shown that modifiable lifestyle factors—including physical activity, cognitive engagement, and diet—are a key strategy for maintaining brain health during aging. Indeed, a multiplicity of studies has demonstrated relationships between lifestyle factors, brain structure and function, and cognitive function in aging adults. For example, physical activity and diet modulate common neuroplasticity substrates (neurotrophic signaling, neurogenesis, inflammation, stress response, and antioxidant defense) in the brain whereas cognitive engagement enhances brain and cognitive reserve. The aims of this review are to evaluate the relationship between modifiable lifestyle factors, neuroplasticity, and optimal brain health during aging; to identify putative mechanisms that contribute positive brain aging; and to highlight future directions for scientists and clinicians. Undoubtedly, the translation of cutting-edge knowledge derived from the field of cognitive neuroscience will advance our understanding and enhance clinical treatment interventions as we endeavor to promote brain health during aging.

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Savoring, resilience, and psychological well-being in older adults

Cited by 209 publications

References 41 publications

Positive Emotion Infusions: Can Savoring Increase Help‐Seeking Intentions among People with Depression?

Positive Emotion Infusions: Can Savoring Increase Help‐Seeking Intentions among People with Depression?

Savouring and psychological well‐being in family dyads coping with cancer: An actor–partner interdependence model

Lifestyle Modulators of Neuroplasticity: How Physical Activity, Mental Engagement, and Diet Promote Cognitive Health during Aging

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