Two studies explored the relations of positive and negative affect (PA and NA) to social interaction. In Study 1, unacquainted dyads were surreptitiously videotaped as they participated in a 6-min interaction. Participants then evaluated the quality of the interaction. Independent observers also rated the videotaped interactions. Trait PA was positively related to both participant and observer ...

objectives: resilience is one of important subjects in health psychology. a lot of studies have investigated factors that are connected to resilience. the objective of this research was to determine role of the positive affect, negative affect and optimism, as predicting variables. method: the participants in the research were 201 students of shiraz university (100 males, 101 females) who exper...

The independence of positive and negative affect has been heralded as a major and counterintuitive finding in the psychology of mood and emotion. Still, other findings support the older view that positive and negative fall at opposite ends of a single bipolar continuum. Independence versus bipolarity can be reconciled by considering (a) the activation dimension of affect, (b) random and systema...

From the perspective of positive psychology, study and measurement subjective well-being has popularized a growing interest towards variables such as affective perception. In an attempt to explain evaluate structure in terms (PA) negative (NA), PANASN affect scale (Sandín, 2003) constitutes version adapted for children teenagers Positive Negative Affect Schedule (Watson et al., 1988). Opposite ...

OBJECTIVES The higher order structure of Positive Affect (PA) and Negative Affect (NA) is comparable in self-report affect data from younger and older adults. The current study advances this work by comparing the factor structure of facets of PA and NA in older and younger adults using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. METHOD Older (N = 203; M age = 73.5 years, range 65-92) and yo...

Previous studies have indicated that there are positive effects of music and singing on well-being in adults. The aim our study was to examine the associations between characteristics indicators (positive affect, negative affect life satisfaction). participants were 221 people (75.1% female) 18 70 years (M = 31.94, SD 12.89) who at time actively involved any kind activities. Singing characteris...