Institutional caregiving is associated with significant deviations from species-expected caregiving, altering the normative sequence of attachment formation and placing children at risk for long-term emotional difficulties. However, little is known about factors that can promote resilience following early institutional caregiving. In the current study, we investigated how adaptations in affecti...

Three studies involving 104 undergraduates sought to examine how an individual's level of life satisfaction organizes their knowledge concerning the self's emotions. Participants judged the self's positive and negative emotions within a computerized task. Key results sought to determine whether judging two positive emotions in a consecutive sequence speeds the second judgment--a pattern of prim...

OBJECTIVES Bipolar disorder is associated with positive emotion disturbance, though it is less clear which specific positive emotions are affected. METHODS The present study examined differences among distinct positive emotions in recovered bipolar disorder (BD) patients (n = 55) and nonclinical controls (NC) (n = 32) and whether they prospectively predicted symptom severity in patients with ...

OBJECTIVE To test mediating effects of positive emotion and activity restriction on the associations of resilience and pain interference with distress reported by individuals with traumatic upper limb loss evaluated for prosthetics. DESIGN Cross-sectional correlational study of several demographic and self-report measures of resilience, pain interference, activity restriction, positive emotio...

B. L. Fredrickson's (1998, 2001) broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions asserts that people's daily experiences of positive emotions compound over time to build a variety of consequential personal resources. The authors tested this build hypothesis in a field experiment with working adults (n = 139), half of whom were randomly-assigned to begin a practice of loving-kindness meditation. R...

Background Achievement emotions have been proven as important indicators of students’ academic performance in traditional classrooms and beyond. In the online learning contexts, previous studies indicated that achievement would affect adoption self-regulated strategies further predict their outcomes. However, pathway regarding how different positive negative might burnout through among medical ...

Theory and research on adult attachment style emphasize the crucial role that the sense of attachment security plays in the formation and maintenance of couple relationships. In the present article, we review studies that have examined the contribution of adult attachment style to relational cognitions, emotions, and behaviors as well as to the formation, quality, and stability of dating and ma...

This work includes two studies, in the first we set out to identify what extent participation manifestation of March 8th Guadalajara was determined by negative emotions, social identity, solidarity, moral obligation, and collective efficacy, following Collective Action Frames theory. The sample comprised 353 women between 18 63 years old (x= 30.27 D.T. = 8.97) who answered survey 13th 2020. Sec...

Self-efficacy theory asserts that self-efficacy expectancies exert., fowerful influences on behavior and behavior change. The Self-efficacy. Scale was developed to assess generalized self-efficacy expectations. Pre:vious research provided preliminary evidence of the validity and reliabilty of the two subscales of the Self-efficacy Scale. The present study.inves, tigated several predicted concep...