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The health benefits of writing about intensely positive experiences

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In this paper, a variation on Pennebaker's writing paradigm, a sample of 90 undergraduates were randomly assigned to write about either an intensely positive experience (IPE) or a control topic (n=42) for 20min each day for three consecutive days.
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This article is published in Journal of Research in Personality.The article was published on 2004-04-01. It has received 350 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mood.

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Enhancing well-being and alleviating depressive symptoms with positive psychology interventions: a practice-friendly meta-analysis.

TL;DR: Clinicians should be encouraged to incorporate positive psychology techniques into their clinical work, particularly for treating clients who are depressed, relatively older, or highly motivated to improve.
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Happy People Live Longer: Subjective Well‐Being Contributes to Health and Longevity

TL;DR: In this article, seven types of evidence are reviewed that indicate that high subjective wellbeing (such as life satisfaction, absence of negative emotions, optimism, and positive emotions) causes better health and longevity.
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Positive psychology interventions: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled studies

TL;DR: The results of this meta-analysis show that positive psychology interventions can be effective in the enhancement of subjectiveWell-being and psychological well-being, as well as in helping to reduce depressive symptoms.
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Experimental Disclosure and Its Moderators: A Meta-Analysis

TL;DR: Results of random effects analyses indicate that experimental disclosure is effective, with a positive and significant average r-effect size of .075, and a number of moderators were identified.
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Positive Psychology in Clinical Practice

TL;DR: It is argued that positive interventions are justifiable in their own right and may usefully supplement direct attempts to prevent and treat psychopathology and may covertly be a central component of good psychotherapy as it is done now.
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The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations.

TL;DR: This article seeks to make theorists and researchers aware of the importance of not using the terms moderator and mediator interchangeably by carefully elaborating the many ways in which moderators and mediators differ, and delineates the conceptual and strategic implications of making use of such distinctions with regard to a wide range of phenomena.
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Multiple Regression: Testing and Interpreting Interactions

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of predictor scaling on the coefficients of regression equations are investigated. But, they focus mainly on the effect of predictors scaling on coefficients of regressions.
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What Good Are Positive Emotions

TL;DR: A new model is advanced to describe the form and function of a subset of positive emotions, including joy, interest, contentment, and love, that serve to broaden an individual's momentary thought–action repertoire, which in turn has the effect of building that individual's physical, intellectual, and social resources.
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The Farther Reaches of Human Nature

TL;DR: Maslow as mentioned in this paper discusses the need for creative people and the need to be creative in order to achieve the goals of self-actualization and self-transcendence of the human mind.
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