The Benefits of Frequent Positive Affect: Does Happiness Lead to Success?

Lyubomirsky, Sonja; King, Laura A.; Diener, Ed

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“…Frequent experiences of positive emotion states such as happiness have important physical and psychological benefits. In a comprehensive metaanalytical study Lyubomirsky, King and Diener (2005) found that frequent experiences of positive affective states engender success, and that happiness is both associated with, and precedes, successful outcomes in work, health and social relationships. According to the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotion, (Fredrickson, 2003;Fredrickson & Branigan, 2005;Isen, 1999) and undo the negative effects of negative emotions (Fredrickson & Levenson, 1998;Fredrickson, Mancuso, Branigan, & Tugade, 2000;Tugade & Fredrickson, 2004).…”

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Basic emotion profiles in healthy, chronic pain, depressed and PTSD individuals

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Dima

Ferreira

et al. 2011

Clin Psychology and Psychoth

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ObjectivesTo compare self-reports of five basic emotions across four samples: healthy, chronic pain, depressed and PTSD, and to investigate the extent to which basic emotion reports discriminate between individuals in healthy or clinical groups. MethodsIn total, 439 participants took part in this study: healthy (N = 131), chronic pain (N = 220), depressed (N = 24) and PTSD (N = 64). Participants completed the trait version of the Basic Emotion Scale (Dalgleish & Power, 2004). Basic emotion profiles were compared both within each group and between the healthy group and each of the three other groups. Discriminant analysis was used to assess the extent to which basic emotions can be used to classify participants as belonging to the healthy group or one of the clinical groups.2 ResultsIn the healthy group, happiness was experienced more than any other basic emotion.This was not found in the clinical groups. In comparison to healthy participants, the chronic pain group experienced more fear, anger and sadness; the depressed group reported more sadness; and the PTSD group experienced all of the negative emotions more frequently. Discriminant analysis revealed that happiness was the most important variable in determining whether an individual belonged to the healthy group or one of the clinical groups. Anger was found to further discriminate between depressed and chronic pain individuals. ConclusionThe findings demonstrate that basic emotion profile analysis can provide a useful foundation for the exploration of emotional experience both within and between healthy and clinical groups. Key Practitioner Message• More frequent experiences of happiness relative to discrete negative emotions most clearly discriminate between individuals in healthy and clinical groups.More frequent anger experiences further discriminate between individuals with chronic pain and those with depression while disgust levels help discriminate between those with PTSD and depression.• More frequent experiences of high arousal negative emotions -fear, anger and disgust are characteristic of individuals with PTSD.• Fear is the most frequently experienced negative emotion in both healthy and clinical groups. Higher levels of fear compared to other discrete negative emotions are not necessarily an indicator of psychopathology. Consideration of emotional profiles more generally and the relative frequency with which happiness is experienced relative to negative emotions may be more useful in delineating between healthy individuals and those with chronic pain, depression or PTSD. 3Although emotions play an important role in psychopathology, few studies have applied models of everyday emotions to research in psychopathology. Nonetheless,

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Basic emotion profiles in healthy, chronic pain, depressed and PTSD individuals

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“…Así, parece existir una relación entre la longevidad y variables tales como el mantenimiento de un buen bienestar, de una adecuada competencia para vivir de forma independiente y del mantenimiento de unas relaciones personales positivas 24 . En esta misma línea, algunos trabajos 25,26 muestran la importancia del bienestar como una variable predictora de la longevidad. Por otra parte, en una investigación de 2.282 sujetos de más de 65 años 27 , se evaluó el estado de salud y el estado emocional; s concluyó que la experiencia de emociones positivas protegía a las personas mayores de los efectos más negativos del envejecimiento y de la incapacidad y, lo más importante, predecía con éxito quiénes vivirían y quiénes morirían.…”

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Análisis del bienestar en la vejez según la edad

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Miguel

Navarro‐Pardo

2008

Revista Española de Geriatría y Gerontología

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Introducción: el objetivo de este trabajo es conocer cómo el bienestar evoluciona con la edad una vez llegados al período de la vejez y si existen cambios en esta variable tan relacionada con la calidad de vida. Material y método: se aplicó a una muestra de 169 personas de más de 65 años la Life Satisfaction Index (LSI) y la escala de bienestar de Ryff; se realizaron regresiones lineales simples y curvilíneas para ver su relación con la edad. Resultados: las correlaciones de Pearson mostraron que parece existir una relación de disminución, tanto del bienestar como indicador global, y de tres de sus dimensiones, con la edad. Por otra parte, la satisfacción vital muestra como mejor ajuste el cuadrático, lo que indica que, mientras en los primeros años de la vejez efectivamente hay una disminución, a partir de los 85 años se produce un repunte de la satisfacción vital. Conclusiones: el aumento de estrategias adaptativas de carác-ter acomodativo se presupone como causa del descenso de los indicadores más propios del bienestar psicológico. Por otra parte, el aumento de la longevidad y su relación con variables de salud, competencia y relaciones pueden estar generando un aumento de la satisfacción por las características diferenciales de la propia muestra. Palabras claveBienestar. Satisfacción vital. Vejez. Envejecimiento con éxito. An analysis of well-being and age in the elderlyIntroduction: well-being is a key construct for understanding quality of life. The aim of the present study was to analyze how well-being changes in old age and to determine if there are any modifications in this variable during this period. Material and methods: the LIS and EBR scales were applied to a sample of 169 persons aged more than 64 years. Linear and curvilinear regressions were estimated to understand the associations among age, well-being and life satisfaction.Results: pearson correlations showed statistically significant negative relations among age and environmental mastery, personal growth, purpose in life, and overall well-being. However, life satisfaction showed a curvilinear, quadratic relation with age, revealing that this dimension decreases in the first few years of old age but increases again after the age of 85 years. Conclusions: the decrease in several well-being factors could be caused by the increase in adaptive accommodation strategies. Increased longevity, together with better health, competence and relationships could potentially explain the increase in life satisfaction among the oldest population.

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“…Critically, this way of measuring and understanding happiness seeks to provide accurate descriptions of the psychological states that people experience, but does not focus or specifically assess moral evaluations (for reviews, see Diener, Scollon, & Lucas, 2004;Lyubomirsky, King & Diener, 2005). Thus, the conception of happiness employed by psychologists is thoroughly descriptive rather than evaluative.…”

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True happiness: The role of morality in the folk concept of happiness.

Phillips

Freitas

Mott

et al. 2017

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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Recent scientific research has settled on a purely descriptive definition of happiness that is focused solely on agents' psychological states (high positive affect, low negative affect, high life satisfaction). In contrast to this understanding, recent research has suggested that the ordinary concept of happiness is also sensitive to the moral value of agents' lives. Five studies systematically investigate and explain the impact of morality on ordinary assessments of happiness. Study 1 demonstrates that moral judgments influence assessments of happiness not only for untrained participants, but also for academic researchers and even in those who study happiness specifically. Studies 2 and 3 then respectively ask whether this effect may be explained by general motivational biases or beliefs in a just world. In both cases, we find evidence against these explanations. Study 4 shows that the impact of moral judgments cannot be explained by changes in the perception of descriptive psychological states. Finally, Study 5 compares the impact of moral and non-moral value, and provides evidence that unlike non-moral value, moral value is part of the criteria that govern the ordinary concept of happiness. Taken together, these studies provide a specific explanation of how and why the ordinary concept of happiness deviates from the definition used by researchers studying happiness.

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The Benefits of Frequent Positive Affect: Does Happiness Lead to Success?

Cited by 5,519 publications

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Basic emotion profiles in healthy, chronic pain, depressed and PTSD individuals

Basic emotion profiles in healthy, chronic pain, depressed and PTSD individuals

Análisis del bienestar en la vejez según la edad

True happiness: The role of morality in the folk concept of happiness.

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