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Positive affect and psychobiological processes [PDF]

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 2010
Positive affect has been associated with favourable health outcomes, and it is likely that several biological processes mediate the effects of positive mood on physical health. There is converging evidence that positive affect activates the neuroendocrine, autonomic and immune systems in distinct and functionally meaningful ways.
Samantha Dockray, Andrew Steptoe
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Positive Affect Treatment for Depression, Anxiety, and Low Positive Affect: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

JAMA Netw Open
Importance Targeting impaired reward processing that underlies anhedonia and diminished positive affect is essential for reducing key risk factors in depression and anxiety, including suicidality and relapse. However, mechanistic research in this area remains limited.
Meuret AE, Rosenfield D, Wang E, Hough CM, Ritz T, Craske MG.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

An Exploration of Resilience and Positive Affect among Undergraduate Nursing Students: A Longitudinal Observational Study

Nursing Reports
Background: The purpose of this study is to analyze the variation in resilience and emotional state scores in nursing students throughout the four years of training for the nursing degree.
L. Iván Mayor-Silva, Alfonso Meneses-Monroy, Leyre Rodriguez-Leal, Guillermo Moreno   +3 more
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Positive mental health, positive affect and suicide ideation

International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 2019
Positive mental health (PMH) has been shown to confer resilience against suicide ideation. However, the mechanisms underlying the positive effect of PMH on suicide ideation/behavior are largely unknown. The current study aimed to determine whether positive affect mediates the association between PMH and suicide ideation.A total of 150 adult outpatients
Tobias Teismann, Julia Brailovskaia, Jürgen Margraf   +2 more
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Measuring TechnoWellness and Its Relationship to Subjective Well-Being: the Mediating Role of Optimism [PDF]

Psychology in Russia: State of Art, 2021
Background. The relationship between technology use and subjective well-being is controversial, with recent research suggesting both positive and negative links.
Octav S. Candel
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Hungarian Adaptation of Types of Positive Affect Scale: Differentiation Between Activating and Soothing Positive Affect

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Psychologia-Paedagogia, 2023
Aims and Methods The current study aimed to investigate the factor structure, reliability, measurement invariance, and construct validity of the Hungarian version of the Types of Positive Affect Scale among a sample of university students (N = 1239 ...
Tünde PÓKA, Andrea BARTA, Anna VERES, László MÉRŐ   +3 more
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What are ‘positive’ affect and emotion?

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2021
Positive affect and emotion have become major topics in behavioral science, of growing importance in basic and applied research. A broad review of the literature reveals multiple, theoretically distinct constructs associated with the terms ‘positive affect’ and ‘positive emotion,’ sometimes conflated across this body of work.
Shiota, M.N. (author), Sauter, D.S. (author), Desmet, P.M.A. (author)   +2 more
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The Impact of Positive and Negative Affect on QT Dispersion in Healthy Young Adult Men

Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2021
Objective: In this study, we aimed to determine whether QT dispersion known to be associated with development of coronary artery disease is related with positive (PA) and negative affect (NA) in healthy young adult men.
Barbaros Ozdemir, Murat Erdem, Abdullah Bolu, Taner Oznur, Huseyin Gunay, Hakan Balibey, Sarper Ercan, Omer Uz   +7 more
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Self-efficacy beliefs in managing positive emotions: Associations with positive affect, negative affect, and life satisfaction across gender and ages

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2022
Two studies were carried out on a Spanish population to explore the extent to which different self-efficacy beliefs in managing positive emotions are associated with common indicators of wellbeing, such as positive and negative affect or life ...
Mariagiovanna Caprara, Maria Gerbino, Minou Ella Mebane, Isabel M. Ramirez-Uclés   +3 more
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A randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blinded mechanistic clinical trial using endotoxin to evaluate the relationship between insomnia, inflammation, and affective disturbance on pain in older adults: A protocol for the sleep and Healthy Aging Research for pain (SHARE-P) study

Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health, 2023
Chronic pain is prevalent in older adults. Treatment, especially with opioids, is often ineffective and poses considerable negative consequences in this population.
Caitlin M. DuPont, Richard Olmstead, Matthew J. Reid, Katrina R. Hamilton, Claudia M. Campbell, Patrick H. Finan, Nina Sadeghi, Daisy Castillo, Michael R. Irwin, Michael T. Smith   +9 more
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