How to generate, intensify or prolong positive emotions? Presentation of an Integrative Positive Emotion Regulation Program
(2012) Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences Annual Meeting 2012 — Location: Liege (10.May.2012)
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- Benefits of positive emotions (e.g. joy, pride, awe, gratitude) have been well established in the past ten years (e.g. Frederickson, 2001; Keyes, 2007 ; Lyubomirsky, King, & Diener, 2005; Ryff & Singer, 2008). Among the validated techniques designed to improve people’s happiness, one finds methods as diverse as cognitive reframing (Seligman, Rashid, & Parks, 2006; Seligman, Steen, Park, & Peterson, 2005), savoring (Bryant, 1989), gratitude (Emmons & McCullough, 2003; Sheldon &, Lyubomirsky, 2006), expression of positive emotions (Adelmann & Zajonc, 1989), remembering of positive events (Lyubomirsky, Sousa, & Dickerhoof, 2006; Quoidbach, Hansenne, & Mottet, 2008) to cite but a few examples. These techniques (and others) have been recently organized by Quoidbach (2012) in a theoretical model based on Gross’ Process Model of Emotion Regulation (1998, 2007). While there is a miscellaneous of techniques to increase one's happiness, there is currently no psychological intervention that integrates and organises them. We therefore designed an Integrative Positive Emotion Regulation-Program (IPER-Program) including a set of effective techniques to teach people how to generate, intensify or prolong positive emotions, based on Quoidbach (2012). The aim of our study was to analyse the benefits of the program on subjective well-being, physical health and social relationships. To achieve this goal, 80 students were randomly assigned to either the 12-hours IPER-Program or a waiting-list control group. As the study is still in progress, results will be presented and discussed at the conference.
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Weytens, F., Luminet, O., & Mikolajczak, M. (2012). How to generate, intensify or prolong positive emotions? Presentation of an Integrative Positive Emotion Regulation Program. Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences Annual Meeting 2012, Liege. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/161060