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Mothers' Ideal Positive Affect Predicts their Socialization of Children's Positive Affect

The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2018
Parents generally want their children to be happy, but little is known about particular types of positive affect (PA) that parents want their children to experience. Tsai's (2007) affect valuation theory offers a useful framework to understand how parents' emotional goals may shape the socialization of particular types of PA (e.g., excitement vs ...
Amy L, Gentzler   +4 more
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A boost of positive affect

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 2012
In a series of five studies we examined the relationship between sharing positive experiences and positive affect using a diary method (Study 1) and laboratory manipulations (Studies 2 and 3). All of these studies demonstrated that sharing the positive experience heightened its impact on positive affect.
Lambert, Nathaniel M.   +6 more
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Positive Affectivity

2019
Positive affectivity is a trait that reflects stable individual differences in positive emotional experience; high levels of the trait are marked by frequent feelings of cheerfulness, enthusiasm, and energy. Positive affectivity is relatively independent from negative affectivity, as these traits developed in response to different evolutionary ...
Kristin Naragon-Gainey, David Watson
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On the Dynamical Interplay of Positive and Negative Affects

Neural Computation, 2017
Emotional disorders and psychological flourishing are the result of complex interactions between positive and negative affects that depend on external events and the subject’s internal representations. Based on psychological data, we mathematically model the dynamical balance between positive and negative affects as a function of the response to ...
Jonathan Touboul   +2 more
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The relationship between positive and negative affect in the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule

Journal of Research in Personality, 2002
Abstract The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS; Watson, Clark, & Tellegen, 1988 ) is one of the most widely used affect scales. Nevertheless, the relation between its two scales, positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA), is still controversial.
Stefan C. Schmukle   +2 more
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Positive Affect and Health

Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2006
Negative affective styles such as anxiety, depression, and hostility have long been accepted as predictors of increased risk for illness and mortality. In contrast, positive affective styles have been relatively ignored in the health literature. Here we highlight consistent patterns of research associating trait positive affect (PA) and physical health.
Cohen, Sheldon, Pressman, Sarah D
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Further Examining Positive Affect in Relation to Worry: A Synergistic Effect Between Positive Affect Expressivity and Proneness to Positive Affect

Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy
There is emerging interest in understanding positive affect dysfunction in relation to anxiety, including worry. This set of two studies examined the association between the inhibition of affect expression (general affect expressivity in Study 1, positive affect expressivity in Study 2) and worry, with a particular interest in the moderating role of ...
Thomas A, Fergus   +2 more
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The Positive Affect of the XP Methodology

2005
This paper describes a longitudinal study on how the XP methodology acts as a positive mood inducer to SE teams. The results provide empirical evidence of the ability of these practices to alleviate the positive feeling amongst SE teams and there is a strong relationship between the positive moods experienced by the teams and the number of the XP ...
Sharifah Lailee Syed-Abdullah   +4 more
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The Retrospective Evaluation of Positive and Negative Affect

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2018
A vast amount of literature examined the relationship between retrospective affective evaluations and evaluations of affective experiences. This literature has focused on simple momentary experiences, and was based on a unidimensional concept of affect.
Yoav, Ganzach, Einat, Yaor
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