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A pilot study of loving-kindness meditation for the negative symptoms of schizophrenia
David P. Johnson,David L. Penn,Barbara L. Fredrickson,Ann M. Kring,Piper S. Meyer,Lahnna I. Catalino,Mary M. Brantley +6 more
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This pilot study examined loving-kindness meditation with 18 participants with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders and significant negative symptoms to indicate that the intervention was feasible and associated with decreased negative symptoms and increased positive emotions and psychological recovery.About:
This article is published in Schizophrenia Research.The article was published on 2011-07-01. It has received 167 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Meditation.read more
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Psychological well-being revisited: advances in the science and practice of eudaimonia.
TL;DR: Research and interventions that have grown up around a model of psychological well-being generated more than two decades ago to address neglected aspects of positive functioning such as purposeful engagement in life, realization of personal talents and capacities, and enlightened self-knowledge are reviewed.
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Positive Emotions Broaden and Build
TL;DR: A comprehensive review of the broad-and-build theory of positive emotions can be found in this paper, with a focus on the upward spiral model of lifestyle change and positivity resonance between and among people.
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Upward Spirals of Positive Emotions Counter Downward Spirals of Negativity: Insights from the Broaden-and-Build Theory and Affective Neuroscience on The Treatment of Emotion Dysfunctions and Deficits in Psychopathology
Eric L. Garland,Barbara L. Fredrickson,Ann M. Kring,David P. Johnson,Piper S. Meyer,David L. Penn +5 more
TL;DR: The proposition that positive emotions may exert a countervailing force on the dysphoric, fearful, or anhedonic states characteristic of psychopathologies typified by emotional dysfunctions is concluded.
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Positive emotion regulation in emotional disorders: a theoretical review.
TL;DR: A transdiagnostic model of positive emotion disturbances in emotional disorders is presented to present and treatment strategies that may address these disturbances are proposed.
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The Satisfaction with Life Scale
TL;DR: The Satisfaction With Life Scale is narrowly focused to assess global life satisfaction and does not tap related constructs such as positive affect or loneliness, but is shown to have favorable psychometric properties, including high internal consistency and high temporal reliability.
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The Satisfaction With Life Scale.
TL;DR: The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) as mentioned in this paper is a scale to measure global life satisfaction, which does not tap related constructs such as positive affect or loneliness, and has favorable psychometric properties, including high internal consistency and high temporal reliability.
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Happiness is everything, or is it? Explorations on the meaning of psychological well-being.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between self-acceptance, positive relations with others, autonomy, environmental mastery, purpose in life, and personal growth, and found that these aspects are not strongly tied to prior assessment indexes.
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The role of positive emotions in positive psychology. The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions.
TL;DR: The theory and findings suggest that the capacity to experience positive emotions may be a fundamental human strength central to the study of human flourishing.
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