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{"title":"The “Realizing Growth Potential” Emotion Regulation Strategy: How Realizing the Potential for Psychological Growth from Negative Events can Mitigate Emotional Negativity Associated with the Events","authors":"Rajagopal Raghunathan, Anoosha Izadi","doi":"10.1007/s10902-024-00750-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-024-00750-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The present research proposes a novel emotion regulation strategy called “realizing growth potential” (RGP) strategy. The strategy involves realizing that negative events hold the potential for psychological growth and thus, to the extent that psychological growth is a cherished goal, we expect the affect-intensities associated with negative events to be mitigated when one employs the RGP strategy. We first differentiate RGP strategy from other emotion-regulation strategies (including benefit-finding). Then, across two pilot and two main studies, we test for the effectiveness of the RGP strategy in reducing the intensity of emotions associated with non-traumatic but serious negative events (such as, job loss). Pilot studies 1 and 2 reveal that, with distant-past (vs. recent-past) negative events, the drop-off in affect-intensity occurs naturally and is mediated by psychological growth. Study 1 investigates the impact of prompting individuals to recognize the potential for psychological growth arising from a recent-past negative event and suggests that this intervention can effectively mitigate the affect-intensities associated with such negative events. Study 2 illustrates that contemplating the psychological growth stemming from a distant-past incident, and even mere exposure to the notion that negative events foster psychological growth, can reduce emotional negativity linked to recent-past negative events. Our findings suggest the potential of the RGP strategy as a valuable tool for practitioners and therapists to address significant negativity.</p>","PeriodicalId":15837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Happiness Studies","volume":"88 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140331218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Children’s Expressions of Gratitude for General and Specific Categories Amid a Pandemic","authors":"Simone P. Nguyen, Cameron L. Gordon","doi":"10.1007/s10902-024-00743-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-024-00743-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This naturalistic study examines how broad societal events like the COVID-19 pandemic affect children’s gratitude expressions for general and specific categories of needs. Gratitude expressions (<i>N</i> = 6908) written by children in the United States (<i>N</i> = 3613, M_<i>age</i> = 6.96 years) before the pandemic (November 2018, 2019) and during the pandemic (November 2020, 2021) were collected from online newspapers. The gratitude expressions were coded for general and specific categories based on Maslow’s Theory of Motivation. Between time periods, there was no difference in prevalence of gratitude for the fulfillment of the general categories of deficiency needs (physiological, safety, belongingness and love, esteem) and growth needs (cognitive, aesthetic, self-actualization, and transcendence) as well as the specific sub-categories that they subsume. However, within time periods, there was a greater prevalence for the fulfillment of deficiency than growth needs, especially the specific category of love and belongingness. Together these results highlight the enduring nature of particular categories in the face of a broad societal event and have implications for public policies and services aimed at protecting children and meeting their needs.</p>","PeriodicalId":15837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Happiness Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140142121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Contribution of Relationships with Friends and Teachers and Experiences of School Violence to the Subjective Well-Being of Immigrant Children","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s10902-024-00733-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-024-00733-y","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> <p>While the individual trajectories of immigrant children may differ, attending school is a collective experience for most children. When considering children’s integration into their respective school environments, social interactions with peers and teachers may contribute to their ease of integration and overall subjective well-being, as well as potential experiences of violence within the school context. The objectives of this study are to (a) explore the contribution of satisfaction with friends, teachers, and school violence to the SWB of immigrant children, and (b) examine how said contributions and subsequent associations vary across generations. Participants are 8360 children from 21 countries between the ages of 9–13, who report that they themselves or at least one of their parents was born in a foreign country. The participants completed a survey that included demographic information and validated measures from the International Survey of Children’s Well-Being (ISCWeB), including the Children’s Worlds Subjective Well-Being Scale (CW-SWBS), and was contextually adapted as appropriate. The data was analyzed using structural equation modelling (SEM). The results indicate that higher levels of satisfaction with peer and teacher relationships, as well as fewer experiences of perceived violence, are associated with the subjective well-being of immigrant children. Thus, our model presents a good fit and accounts for 30% of the subjective well-being variance. Our results indicate the importance of social relationships, specifically with peers and teachers, and reinforces school as a crucial context for significant social support and correspondingly may improve immigrant children’s subjective well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":15837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Happiness Studies","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139976756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Prevalence of Positive Affect over Negative Affect in Adolescents’ Well-being: Moderating Role of Individualism","authors":"Qingke Guo, Wang Zheng, Zhenhua Han","doi":"10.1007/s10902-024-00716-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-024-00716-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Emotional experiences (positive and negative affect) profoundly influence adolescents’ health and psycho-social functioning. Both positive and negative affect are important for well-being. However, few studies have examined different contributions of positive and negative affect to adolescents’ well-being in a global context. Using a dataset derived from the PISA 2018 survey, this study examined the association between emotional experiences and adolescents’ well-being (physical, hedonic, and eudaimonic well-being), and the moderating role of individualistic cultural value in the abovementioned relationships. The sample sizes (69,502 adolescents from 8 societies when physical well-being was the outcome,413,974 adolescents from 66 societies when eudaimonic well-being was the outcome, and 421,136 adolescents from 67 societies when hedonic well-being was the outcome) were large enough for sound conclusions. The results showed that positive affect was positively associated with all well-being indicators (physical, hedonic, and eudaimonic well-being), while negative affect was negatively associated with all well-being indicators. The results of the relative weighting analyses showed that positive affect contributed more strongly to adolescents’ well-being than negative affect. In addition, multilevel analyses showed that individualism increases the association of positive affect, but decreases the association of negative affect, and adolescents’ eudaimonic and hedonic well-being. These findings suggest that positive affect may be more closely associated with adolescents’ well-being than negative affect. The effects of emotional experiences on well-being can be moderated by culture.</p>","PeriodicalId":15837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Happiness Studies","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139976731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Happy Moments between Children and Their Parents: A Multi-method and Multi-informant Perspective","authors":"Flavia Izzo, Edoardo Saija, Susanna Pallini, Salvatore Ioverno, Roberto Baiocco, Jessica Pistella","doi":"10.1007/s10902-024-00735-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-024-00735-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Research interest in children’s happiness has increasingly grown in recent years. Studies of children’s happiness have shown that happiness promotes greater social and emotional well-being during childhood. The present study explores the different perspectives of children and their parents on happy moments spent together, examining potential discrepancies in points of view. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 154 children (6–13 years old: <i>M</i>_age=8.72, <i>SD</i> = 2.00; 57% girls), their mothers (<i>M</i>_age=42.30, SD = 4.50), and their fathers (<i>M</i>_age=45.47, SD = 5.42). Children were asked to indicate their level of happiness using a single item and to recount their happy moments spent with their fathers and mothers. Parents were asked to evaluate their children’s happiness and to identify what they thought was the happiest moment their children had experienced with them. The data was analyzed using <i>Thematic Analysis</i>. Six main themes related to children’s happy moments emerged from the transcripts: (1) <i>Activities outside the home</i>; (2) <i>Shared activities between parents and children</i>; (3) <i>Happy moments of play between parents and children</i>; (4) <i>Parent-child moments of affection</i>; (5) <i>Relevance of material gifts</i>; (6) <i>Non-specified happy moments</i>. Emotional interactions characterized the happiest moments reported with mothers, while those with fathers were more frequently playful and fun situations. Results showed that parents and children disagree on children’s happiness levels and tend to identify different episodes as the happiest moments spent together. The study examined parent-child interactions in the context of family happiness, considering the protective role of a child’s happiness against negative psychological symptoms. It aimed to identify components of happier moments as potential indicators of family well-being, given the family’s role in psychological development.</p>","PeriodicalId":15837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Happiness Studies","volume":"253 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139976674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reciprocal Relations Between Meaning in Life, Beneficence, and Psychological Needs for Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness: Evidence from a Three-Wave Longitudinal Study","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s10902-024-00741-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-024-00741-y","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> <p>Meaning in life has been established as a key factor of human well-being and flourishing. Beneficence and the three psychological needs of self-determination theory—autonomy, competence, and relatedness—have all been individually studied as antecedents of meaningfulness. Yet, no previous research has examined them neither longitudinally nor simultaneously as predictors of meaning over time. In a three-wave longitudinal study in Chile (n: T1 = 1477, T2 = 820, T3 = 487) we examined the reciprocal relations between autonomy, competence, relatedness, beneficence, and meaning, using cross-lagged panel analysis. Taken individually, each of the four factors predicted meaning, and when entered simultaneously into the same model, competence, relatedness, and beneficence predicted meaning over time. Furthermore, we found that meaning predicted all four factors over time. Our results thus advance research on meaning in life by examining key predictors of it and showing that meaning itself predicts the same factors dynamically over time.</p>","PeriodicalId":15837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Happiness Studies","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139945381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Better to Grow Up Poor in a Richer Place? Social Housing, Neighbourhood Comparisons, and English Teenagers’ Well-Being","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s10902-024-00740-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-024-00740-z","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> <p>How does being comparatively socio-economically disadvantaged within their neighbourhood affect the lived experiences of young teenagers? We explore this question on a sample of 13 to 15-year-old teenagers living in social housing in England. We explore three major domains of young teenagers’ well-being: (a) their sense of generally leading a bad life, (b) conflictual family interactions, and (c) unhappy social interactions with their peers. We find that living in a social housing estate within a less deprived neighbourhood does not negatively affect teenagers’ general sense of leading a bad life and does not increase conflictual family interactions. But it does make them <em>less</em> likely to report unhappy social interactions with their peers, indicating a positive effect of social mixing at the neighbourhood level.</p>","PeriodicalId":15837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Happiness Studies","volume":"232 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139898805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Aristotelian Flourishing and Contemporary Philosophical Theories of Wellbeing","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s10902-024-00723-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-024-00723-0","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> <p>Several philosophical theories of wellbeing claim Aristotelian ancestry and employ an Aristotelian construct of flourishing. Yet it is not clear how we should interpret Aristotle’s notion of flourishing or eudaimonia (εὐδαιμονία). In this article, we offer an analysis of Aristotle’s notion of eudaimonia and consider to what extent it can be categorized within the framework of contemporary philosophical theories of wellbeing. We stress the active character of Aristotelian flourishing and its focus on the development of living things over time, which contrasts with the static and passive character of contemporary philosophical accounts of wellbeing. We suggest that Aristotle is closest to a perfectionist theory of wellbeing, though even this requires some qualification. While rational activity in accord with virtue is central to Aristotle’s account of living well, Aristotle also states that a range of practical human activities and propitious life circumstances are necessary (and, on some interpretations, constitutive) features of the flourishing life. As such, Aristotelian flourishing includes elements of moral and cognitive perfectionism as well as an objective list of external goods and presupposes one’s embeddedness within communities. We close with a consideration of the implications of our argument for the philosophical and social scientific study of flourishing. Contemporary well-being philosophers should be mindful of ways in which Aristotelian eudaimonia extends beyond the dominant philosophical categories of wellbeing that have a static focus and concern themselves with subjective experience or the possession of objective goods. Social scientists should be transparent about the limits of invoking an Aristotelian pedigree to motivate their own theories of wellbeing and should understand the implications of more limited conceptions.</p>","PeriodicalId":15837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Happiness Studies","volume":"296 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139739653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Role of Positive and Negative Emotion Regulation in Well-being and Health: The Interplay between Positive and Negative Emotion Regulation Abilities is Linked to Mental and Physical Health","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s10902-024-00714-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-024-00714-1","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> <p>Appropriate regulation of emotions is vital to daily functioning. Previous studies have shown that regulating negative emotions can improve health and wellbeing. However, the relationship between positive and negative emotion regulation and their interactions with positive and negative affect, life satisfaction, and health is not well understood. In addition, no studies have investigated the role of attention control and trait mindfulness in positive and negative emotion regulation. This study examined the associations between positive and negative emotion regulation abilities and health, affect, life satisfaction, attention control, and trait mindfulness. A total of 490 participants (284 females and 206 males, mean age = 25.8 ± 2.9 years, range = 20–29 years) completed questionnaires and attention measuring tasks. Multiple regression analyses revealed that negative emotion regulation ability was associated with affect, life satisfaction, and health, whereas positive emotion regulation ability was related to negative affect and mental and physical health. Additionally, negative rather than positive emotion regulation ability was more strongly associated with trait mindfulness and attention control. Positive emotion regulation may benefit those who have difficulty in regulating negative emotions. By focusing on both negative and positive emotion regulation, this study elucidates the relationship between emotion regulation ability, positive and negative affect, life satisfaction, health, mindfulness, and attention control.</p>","PeriodicalId":15837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Happiness Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139733621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Emotional Experiences, Well-Being, and Ill-Being During Art Museum Visits: A Latent Class Analysis","authors":"Katherine N. Cotter, Rebekah M. Rodriguez-Boerwinkle, Sarah Silver, Maya Hardy, Henry Putney, James O. Pawelski","doi":"10.1007/s10902-024-00736-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-024-00736-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Our emotions can be influenced by many factors, including our engagement with visual art. Further, as our emotional experiences may help us develop psychological resources, they have important implications for our overall well-being and ill-being. Research into the emotions experienced when viewing art, however, has focused on individual emotions separately rather than on global patterns of experienced emotions. The present research used latent class analysis to identify patterns of emotional experiences during art museum visits and sought to investigate whether people experiencing each emotional pattern differed in their well-being and ill-being across five domains—psychological distress, empathy, meaning, positive self-regard, and social connection. A sample of 613 visitors to three art museums completed a survey of their visit experiences, including their emotional experiences and their experiences across the five domains of well-being and ill-being. The analyses resulted in three latent classes—one characterized by above average positive emotions, one characterized by above average negative emotions, and the third characterized by very high levels of negative emotions. Overall, the positive emotion class showed greater well-being and lower ill-being than the two negative emotion classes, with the two negative emotion classes differing only in psychological distress.</p>","PeriodicalId":15837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Happiness Studies","volume":"82 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139733628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}