{"title":"Has human progress stagnated in recent decades? Evaluating Seligman’s (2021) model of agency and its correlates using the MIDUS three-wave longitudinal study","authors":"P. F. J. Li, Angela Chow","doi":"10.1080/17439760.2024.2314288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2024.2314288","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":515224,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Positive Psychology","volume":"68 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139865722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Has human progress stagnated in recent decades? Evaluating Seligman’s (2021) model of agency and its correlates using the MIDUS three-wave longitudinal study","authors":"P. F. J. Li, Angela Chow","doi":"10.1080/17439760.2024.2314288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2024.2314288","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":515224,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Positive Psychology","volume":"34 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139805825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revising the VIA-Youth: III. scale unidimensionality and measurement invariance","authors":"Francesca C. Bates, Robert E. McGrath","doi":"10.1080/17439760.2023.2297217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2023.2297217","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":515224,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Positive Psychology","volume":"31 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139388649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Global Reports of Well-Being Overestimate Aggregated Daily States of Well-Being.","authors":"David B Newman, Norbert Schwarz, Arthur A Stone","doi":"10.1080/17439760.2020.1725608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2020.1725608","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Researchers can characterize people's well-being by asking them to provide global evaluations of large parts of their life at one time or by obtaining repeated assessments during their daily lives. Global evaluations are reconstructions that are influenced by peak, recent, and frequently occurring states, whereas daily reports reflect naturally occurring variations in daily life. The present research compared the averages of individual global evaluations and corresponding aggregated daily states from an ordinary two-week period and used a range of well-being measures (life satisfaction, meaning in life, and affect) and related constructs (searching for meaning in life and nostalgia). Across all measures, global reports were significantly higher than aggregated daily states. That is, life is considered more satisfying, more meaningful, and is characterized to a greater extent by more intense positive and negative emotions when reflecting on life in general than when reflecting on daily life in real time.</p>","PeriodicalId":515224,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Positive Psychology","volume":"16 3","pages":"407-416"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17439760.2020.1725608","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38928773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mariah F Purol, Victor N Keller, Jeewon Oh, William J Chopik, Richard E Lucas
{"title":"Loved and lost or never loved at all? Lifelong marital histories and their links with subjective well-being.","authors":"Mariah F Purol, Victor N Keller, Jeewon Oh, William J Chopik, Richard E Lucas","doi":"10.1080/17439760.2020.1791946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2020.1791946","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Marriage has been linked to higher well-being. However, previous research has generally examined marital status at one point in time or over a relatively short window of time. In order to determine if different marital histories have unique impacts on well-being in later life, we conducted a marital sequence analysis of 7,532 participants from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (54.2% women; <i>M</i> <sub><i>age</i></sub> = 66.68, SD = 8.50; 68.7% White/Caucasian). Three different marital sequence types emerged: a \"consistently-married\" group (79%), a \"consistently-single\" group (8%), and a \"varied histories\" group (13%), in which individuals had moved in and out of various relationships throughout life. The consistently-married group was slightly higher in well-being at the end of life than the consistently-single and varied histories groups; the latter two groups did not differ in their well-being. The results are discussed in the context of why marriage is linked to well-being across the lifespan.</p>","PeriodicalId":515224,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Positive Psychology","volume":"16 5","pages":"651-659"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17439760.2020.1791946","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39572558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The most important life goals of people with and without social anxiety disorder: Focusing on emotional interference and uncovering meaning in life.","authors":"Fallon R Goodman, Todd B Kashdan","doi":"10.1080/17439760.2019.1689423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2019.1689423","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>People with social anxiety disorder (SAD) display maladaptive attitudes towards emotions. In this experience-sampling study, we explored the extent to which people with SAD viewed anxiety and pain as an impediment to pursuing personal strivings and deriving meaning in life. Participants were adults diagnosed with SAD and a control comparison group who completed baseline questionnaires and daily surveys for 14 consecutive days. People with SAD perceived anxiety and pain as interfering with progress towards their strivings to a greater degree than healthy controls. Perception of emotion-related goal interference was inversely associated with daily meaning. This relationship was moderated by diagnostic group such that there was a strong, inverse association with daily meaning in life for people with SAD; for controls, no association was found. Results suggest that negative beliefs about the value of anxiety and pain are pronounced in people with SAD and may impede derivation of meaning in life.</p>","PeriodicalId":515224,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Positive Psychology","volume":"16 2","pages":"272-281"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17439760.2019.1689423","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39166351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Medical students' empathy positively predicts charitable donation behavior.","authors":"Karen E Smith, Greg J Norman, Jean Decety","doi":"10.1080/17439760.2019.1651889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2019.1651889","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Empathy is known to motivate prosocial behavior. This relationship, however is complex and influenced by the social context and the type of prosocial behavior. Additionally, empathy is a complex psychological capacity, making it important to examine how different components of empathy influence different prosocial behaviors. The current study uses a unique longitudinal sample to assess how changes in cognitive and affective components of empathy relate to charitable giving. Measures of empathy were collected from medical students in the fall and spring of students' first three years of medical school. After this time, students had the opportunity to donate to charity. Positive changes in students' cognitive empathy predicted their charitable giving, with students who demonstrated greater increases in cognitive empathy giving more money. This study points to an important role for cognitive empathy in certain prosocial behaviors, and suggests that long term changes in empathy influence individual differences in prosocial behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":515224,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Positive Psychology","volume":"15 6","pages":"734-742"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17439760.2019.1651889","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38476112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elizabeth L Addington, Elaine O Cheung, Judith T Moskowitz
{"title":"Who is most likely to benefit from a positive psychological intervention? Moderator analyses from a randomized trial in people newly diagnosed with HIV.","authors":"Elizabeth L Addington, Elaine O Cheung, Judith T Moskowitz","doi":"10.1080/17439760.2020.1789702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2020.1789702","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The <b>Intervention for those Recently Informed of their Seropositive Status</b> (IRISS) and other positive psychological interventions (PPIs) have demonstrated psychological and physical health benefits. However, meta-analyses suggest that PPIs may have differential effects depending on participants' sociodemographic and psychological characteristics. We therefore examined potential moderators of effects of IRISS for adults newly diagnosed with HIV (<i>N</i>=159). While IRISS had similar effects on positive emotion across most subgroups (age, race, education, stress), depression was a significant moderator for positive emotion. When examining effects of IRISS on antidepressant use, age, race, education, depression, and perceived stress emerged as significant moderators. Neither optimism nor life events significantly moderated effects of IRISS on any outcome. Results have clinical implications that practitioners can use to inform which patients are most likely to benefit from PPI.</p>","PeriodicalId":515224,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Positive Psychology","volume":"15 5","pages":"605-612"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17439760.2020.1789702","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38456779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shirley Yen, Megan L Ranney, Maya Krek, Jessica R Peters, Ethan H Mereish, Katherine M Tezanos, Christopher W Kahler, Joel Solomon, Courtney Beard, Anthony Spirito
{"title":"Skills to Enhance Positivity in Suicidal Adolescents: Results from a Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial.","authors":"Shirley Yen, Megan L Ranney, Maya Krek, Jessica R Peters, Ethan H Mereish, Katherine M Tezanos, Christopher W Kahler, Joel Solomon, Courtney Beard, Anthony Spirito","doi":"10.1080/17439760.2019.1615105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2019.1615105","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The objective of this study was to examine the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effects of an intervention, Skills to Enhance Positivity (STEP) that aims to increase attention to positive emotions and experiences and to decrease suicidal events. STEP involves four in-person individual sessions delivered during an inpatient psychiatric admission, followed by one month of weekly phone calls and daily text messages with mood monitoring and skills practice. A pilot randomized controlled trial of STEP vs. enhanced treatment as usual (ETAU) was conducted with 52 adolescents. Results indicated that on average 83% of sessions were completed and that on 70% of days, participants engaged with the text-messaging component of the intervention. Acceptability for both in-person and text-messaging components were also high, with satisfaction ratings averaging between good and excellent. STEP participants reported fewer suicide events than ETAU participants (6 vs. 13) after six months of follow-up.</p>","PeriodicalId":515224,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Positive Psychology","volume":"15 3","pages":"348-361"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17439760.2019.1615105","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38438907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}