Barbara L Fredrickson
Biographic Data
| ID | 167960 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara L Fredrickson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara L |
| FAMILY NAME | Fredrickson |
| SIGNATURE | FREDRICKSON B L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3890-2646 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 89 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2511 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 89 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Understanding the Affective and Mental Health Outcomes of Meditation Interventions: The Role of Individual Differences in Self-compassion
Interparental Positivity Spillover Theory: How Parents’ Positive Relational Interactions Influence Children
Interparental interactions have an important influence on child well-being and development. Yet prior theory and research have primarily focused on interparental conflict as contributing to child maladjustment, which leaves out the critical question of how interparental positive interactions—such as expressed gratitude, capitalization, and shared laughter—may benefit child growth and development. In this article, we integrate theory and research …
Trust a Stranger? Investigating Community Trust and Economic Inequality as Barriers to Positive Interactions among Strangers
Seeking positive connection: Is inflammation associated with anticipated and experienced shared positive affect with close versus non-close others
Emerging evidence suggests inflammation may enhance social approach toward close others. Yet, little is known about how inflammation relates to positive affective experiences with different social targets. To address this, we examined associations between inflammation and perceptions of anticipated and experienced shared, kind-hearted positive affect (i.e., perceived positivity resonance) with close versus non-close others. Participants ( N = 55;…
Does Positivity Resonance Signify Love? Markers of Positivity Resonance in Long‐Term Married Couples Relate to Trait and State Love
Positivity resonance is a collective emotion experienced by two or more individuals during moments of shared positive affect; it is theorized to constitute the experience of love, yet this claim has not been empirically tested. Using archival data from 148 long‐term married couples, we examined whether dyad‐level indicators of positivity resonance are linked to dyad‐level indicators of trait and state love. Trait love was assessed as a latent var…
Can an Algorithm Tell How Spiritual You Are? Using Generative Pretrained Transformers for Sophisticated Forms of Text Analysis
OBJECTIVE: Text analysis is a form of psychological assessment that involves converting qualitative information (text) into quantitative data. We tested whether automated text analysis using Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs) can match the "gold standard" of manual text analysis, even when assessing a highly nuanced construct like spirituality. METHOD: In Study 1, N = 2199 US undergraduates wrote about their goals (N = 6597 texts) and com…
Positively in-sync: Convergent validity across three distinct assessments of the affective quality of social interaction
The affective quality of social interaction is linked to the well-being of individuals, relationships, and communities. This construct has been measured in multiple ways, albeit rarely concurrently. The current study tests for convergent validity across three methodologically distinct measures of the affective quality of social interaction. In a video-recorded laboratory session, a sample of university students ( N = 274) got acquainted with an u…
Positive emotions co-experienced with strangers and acquaintances predict Covid-19 vaccination intentions through prosocial tendencies
Do People From Different Cultures Vary in How Much Positive Emotions Resonate in Day-to-Day Social Interactions? Examining the Role of Relational Mobility
Positivity resonance, defined as a co-experienced kind-hearted positive emotion, is commonly observed to strengthen relationships in the United States. However, it is unclear whether levels of positivity resonance differ across cultures. Prior research suggests that in cultures that are perceived as offering more freedom and choice in social ties (defined as high relational mobility cultures), individuals more frequently engage in adaptive strate…
More Than a Momentary Blip in the Universe? Investigating the Link Between Religiousness and Perceived Meaning in Life
One longitudinal and four cross-sectional studies (total N = 3,141) tested two candidate explanations for the association between religiousness and perceived meaning in life. Religiousness may foster a sense of significance, importance, or mattering—either to others (social mattering) or in the grand scheme of the universe (cosmic mattering)—which, in turn, support perceived meaning. We found that perceived social mattering mediated, but could no…
Meta‐analytic evidence that attachment insecurity is associated with less frequent experiences of discrete positive emotions
Our results underscore the need to further investigate the mechanisms underlying insecure individuals' blunted positive emotional experiences
Thriving through adversity: The role of passion and emotions in the resilience process
OBJECTIVES: Two cross-sectional (Studies 1, N = 283 and 2, N = 275) and one prospective (Study 3, N = 238) studies investigated the role of passion (for academia) and emotions in the process of resilience in the education domain and in life in general. METHOD: Participants were examined when facing a stressful situation related to their passion for academia (end-of-term exam period and a timed education task). RESULTS: All three studies showed th…
Does shared positivity make life more meaningful? Perceived positivity resonance is uniquely associated with perceived meaning in life
Pleasantness and meaningfulness are sometimes seen as opposing pursuits. Yet past research has found that the pursuit of meaning often leads to pleasure. In four longitudinal studies-three observational, one experimental, ranging from 5 weeks to 18 months-we investigated an inverse process, whereby specific kinds of pleasant states can foster a sense of meaning in life. We hypothesized that perceptions of positivity resonance, a form of coexperie…
Love and Other Positive Emotions in Contemporary Visual and Social Practice Art
This chapter integrates theory and evidence on the science of positive emotions with recent examples of contemporary visual and social practice art that touch on resonant themes. Focus begins with an emphasis on the individual experience of positive emotions and extends to co-experienced positive emotions, at both relational and communal levels. The artists considered—Janine Antoni, Louise Bourgeois, Nick Cave, C.S.1 Curatorial Projects, Harrell …
Positive psychology in a pandemic: Buffering, bolstering, and building mental health
As the COVID-19 global health disaster continues to unfold across the world, calls have been made to address the associated mental illness public crisis. The current paper seeks to broaden these calls by considering the role that positive psychology factors can play in buffering against mental illness, bolstering mental health during COVID-19 and building positive processes and capacities that may help to strengthen future mental health. The pape…
Bodily feedback: Expansive and upward posture facilitates the experience of positive affect
Most emotion theories recognise the importance of the body in expressing and constructing emotions. Focusing beyond the face, the present research adds needed empirical data on the effect of static full body postures on positive/negative affect. In Studies 1 (N = 110) and 2 (N = 79), using a bodily feedback paradigm, we manipulated postures to test causal effects on affective and physiological responses to emotionally ambiguous music. Across both…
A Square-Root Second-Order Extended Kalman Filtering Approach for Estimating Smoothly Time-Varying Parameters
Researchers collecting intensive longitudinal data (ILD) are increasingly looking to model psychological processes, such as emotional dynamics, that organize and adapt across time in complex and meaningful ways. This is also the case for researchers looking to characterize the impact of an intervention on individual behavior. To be useful, statistical models must be capable of characterizing these processes as complex, time-dependent phenomenon, …
Attachment insecurity moderates emotion responses to mindfulness and loving-kindness meditation in adults raised in low socioeconomic status households
Research on attachment theory holds that insecure attachment influences people's daily social and emotional experiences. Mindfulness meditation and loving-kindness meditation have been associated with improvements in physical and mental well-being often through their influence on emotion experience and regulation. Yet, little research has examined how emotional well-being may be improved in insecurely attached individuals through meditation pract…
New parental positivity: The role of positive emotions in promoting relational adjustment during the transition to parenthood
The transition to parenthood can be a challenging time for new parent couples, as a baby comes with changes and stress that can negatively influence new parents' relational functioning in the form of reduced relationship satisfaction and disrupted partner social support. Yet, the transition to parenthood is also often experienced as a joyous time. In this research, we draw on the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions to suggest that new p…
Positivity resonance in long-term married couples: Multimodal characteristics and consequences for health and longevity
The Positivity Resonance Theory of coexperienced positive affect describes moments of interpersonal connection characterized by shared positive affect, caring nonverbal synchrony, and biological synchrony. The construct validity of positivity resonance and its longitudinal associations with health have not been tested. The current longitudinal study examined whether positivity resonance in conflict interactions between 154 married couples predict…
Enjoying the sweet moments: Does approach motivation upwardly enhance reactivity to positive interpersonal processes
In intimate relationships, greater social approach motivation is associated with a host of personal and relational benefits. Why is this the case? Although previous research suggests approach motivation primarily influences relational outcomes via increased exposure to positive relational events, in this research, based on approach-avoidance motivational theory, we revive the upward reactivity hypothesis, which suggests approach motivation upward…
The Future of Women in Psychological Science
There has been extensive discussion about gender gaps in representation and career advancement in the sciences. However, psychological science itself has yet to be the focus of discussion or systematic review, despite our field’s investment in questions of equity, status, well-being, gender bias, and gender disparities. In the present article, we consider 10 topics relevant for women’s career advancement in psychological science. We focus on issu…
Same-day, cross-day, and upward spiral relations between positive affect and positive health behaviours
OBJECTIVE: This project investigated same-day and lagged (i.e., from one day to the next) associations between daily positive affect and three distinct positive health behaviours: physical activity, fruit and vegetable intake, and meditation. Cross-day analyses also examined the role of positive affect felt during the targeted health behaviours. DESIGN: = 217) were randomized to learn one of two contemplative practices (i.e., mindfulness meditati…
Understanding Engagement in and Affective Experiences During Physical Activity: The Role of Meditation Interventions
OBJECTIVE: Meditation interventions promote an array of well-being outcomes. However, the way in which these interventions promote beneficial outcomes is less clear. Here, we expanded on prior work by examining the influence of mindfulness and loving-kindness meditation on a key health behavior: physical activity. METHODS: To test our hypotheses, we drew upon two randomized intervention studies. In the first study, 171 adults (73.0% female) recei…
Shared emotions in shared lives: Moments of co-experienced affect, more than individually experienced affect, linked to relationship quality
Motivated by collective emotions theories that propose emotions shared between individuals predict group-level qualities, we hypothesized that co-experienced affect during interactions is associated with relationship quality, above and beyond the effects of individually experienced affect. Consistent with positivity resonance theory, we also hypothesized that co-experienced positive affect would have a stronger association with relationship quali…
Objectification Theory: Toward Understanding Women's Lived Experiences and Mental Health Risks
This article offers objectification theory as a framework for understanding the experiential consequences of being female in a culture that sexually objectifies the female body. Objectification theory posits that girls and women are typically acculturated to internalize an observer's perspective as a primary view of their physical selves. This perspective on self can lead to habitual body monitoring, which, in turn, can increase women's opportuni…
What Good Are Positive Emotions
This article opens by noting that positive emotions do not fit existing models of emotions. Consequently, a new model is advanced to describe the form and function of a subset of positive emotions, including joy, interest, contentment, and love. This new model posits that these positive emotions serve to broaden an individual's momentary thought-action repertoire, which in turn has the effect of building that individual's physical, intellectual, …
Resilient Individuals Use Positive Emotions to Bounce Back From Negative Emotional Experiences
Theory indicates that resilient individuals "bounce back" from stressful experiences quickly and effectively.Few studies, however, have provided empirical evidence for this theory.The broadenand-build theory of positive emotions (B.L. Fredrickson, 1998(B.L. Fredrickson, , 2001) ) is used as a framework for understanding psychological resilience.The authors used a multimethod approach in 3 studies to predict that resilient people use positive emot…
Positive emotions broaden the scope of attention and thought-action repertoires
The broaden-and-build theory (Fredrickson, 1998, 2001) hypothesises that positive emotions broaden the scope of attention and thought-action repertoires. Two experiments with 104 college students tested these hypotheses. In each, participants viewed a film that elicited (a) amusement, (b) contentment, (c) neutrality, (d) anger, or (e) anxiety. Scope of attention was assessed using a global-local visual processing task (Experiment 1) and thought-a…
A Mediational Model Linking Self-Objectification, Body Shame, and Disordered Eating
This study tests a mediational model of disordered eating derived from objectification theory (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997). The model proposes that the emotion of body shame mediates the relationship between self-objectification and disordered eating. Two samples of undergraduate women ( n = 93, n = 111) completed self-report questionnaires assessing self-objectification, body shame, anorexic and bulimic symptoms, and dietary restraint. Findings…
Positive Affect and the Complex Dynamics of Human Flourishing
Extending B. L. Fredrickson's (1998) broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions and M. Losada's (1999) nonlinear dynamics model of team performance, the authors predict that a ratio of positive to negative affect at or above 2.9 will characterize individuals in flourishing mental health. Participants (N=188) completed an initial survey to identify flourishing mental health and then provided daily reports of experienced positive and negative em…
What good are positive emotions in crisis? A prospective study of resilience and emotions following the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11th, 2001
Psychological Resilience and Positive Emotional Granularity: Examining the Benefits of Positive Emotions on Coping and Health
For centuries, folk theory has promoted the idea that positive emotions are good for your health. Accumulating empirical evidence is providing support for this anecdotal wisdom. We use the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions (Fredrickson, 1998; 2001) as a framework to demonstrate that positive emotions contribute to psychological and physical well-being via more effective coping. We argue that the health benefits advanced by positive em…
That swimsuit becomes you: Sex differences in self-objectification, restrained eating, and math performance
Objectification theory (B. L. Fredrickson & T. Roberts, 1997) posits that American culture socializes women to adopt observers' perspectives on their physical selves. This self-objectification is hypothesized to (a) produce body shame, which in turn leads to restrained eating, and (b) consume attentional resources, which is manifested in diminished mental performance. Two experiments manipulated self-objectification by having participants try on …
Duration neglect in retrospective evaluations of affective episodes
Two experiments documented a phenomenon of duration neglect in people's global evaluations of past affective experiences. In Study 1, 32 Ss viewed aversive film clips and pleasant film clips that varied in duration and intensity. Ss provided real-time ratings of affect during each clip and global evaluations of each clip when it was over. In Study 2, 96 Ss viewed these same clips and later ranked them by their contribution to an overall experienc…
Open hearts build lives: Positive emotions, induced through loving-kindness meditation, build consequential personal resources
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. Results showed that this meditation practice produced …
The Disruptive Effect of Self-Objectification on Performance
Self-objectification is the act of viewing the self, particularly the body, from a third-person perspective. Objectification theory proposes numerous negative consequences for those who self-objectify, including decreased performance through the disruption of focused attention. In the current study, we examined whether women in a state of self-objectification were slower to respond to a basic Stroop color-naming task. Results showed that regardle…
Throwing Like a Girl: Self-Objectification Predicts Adolescent Girls’ Motor Performance
Objectification theory posits that Western culture socializes girls and women to self-objectify by adopting a third-person perspective on their bodies. Feminist philosopher Iris Young (1990) argued that such self-objectification accounts for 'throwing like a girl' and other constrained and ineffective motor performances. The authors' hypothesis was that higher self-objectification among adolescent girls would predict poorer throwing performance. …
Strangers in sync: Achieving embodied rapport through shared movements
Poor women and the expression of shame and anger: The price of breaking social class feeling rules
We investigate observers’ reactions to a poor woman who fails to express deferent emotion when asking for assistance. Participants (N = 68) viewed an ad featuring a woman actor playing the beneficiary of a charity aiding either the poor or the sick, and who expressed anger or shame. When the poor woman expressed anger, participants responded with anger. When participants were asked to choose whether the charity should use an emotional appeal or a…
Gender Differences in Memory Perspectives: Evidence for Self-Objectification in Women
The Role of Trait Self-Objectification in Smoking among College Women
Bringing Back the Body: A Retrospective on the Development of Objectification Theory
Trait Self-Objectification in Women: Affective and Personality Correlates
Adapting to life’s slings and arrows: Individual differences in resilience when recovering from an anticipated threat
Socioemotional Behavior at the End of College Life
This study examined daily patterns of social interaction before the anticipated social departure marked by the end of residential college life. Sixty-six college students, 19 of whom faced social and/or geographical relocation associated with college graduation, kept daily accounts of their social activities for 21 consecutive days. Compared with students not facing a social departure, graduating seniors reported greater emotional involvement wit…
Emotional fitness and the movement of affective science from lab to field
Emotions provide a ubiquitous and consequential backdrop to daily life, influencing everything from physiology to interpersonal relationships in the blink of an eye. Instances of emotional experience accumulate and compound to impact overall mental and physical health. Under optimal conditions, emotions are adaptive for the successful navigation of daily life. However, situational features of military life likely amplify everyday emotions and the…
Physiological linkage during shared positive and shared negative emotion
Physiological linkage refers to the degree to which peoples' physiological responses change in coordinated ways. Here, we examine whether and how physiological linkage relates to incidents of shared emotion, distinguished by valence. Past research has used an "overall average" approach and characterized how physiological linkage over relatively long time periods (e.g., 10-15 min) reflects psychological and social processes (e.g., marital satisfac…
Positivity resonance in long-term married couples: Multimodal characteristics and consequences for health and longevity
The Positivity Resonance Theory of coexperienced positive affect describes moments of interpersonal connection characterized by shared positive affect, caring nonverbal synchrony, and biological synchrony. The construct validity of positivity resonance and its longitudinal associations with health have not been tested. The current longitudinal study examined whether positivity resonance in conflict interactions between 154 married couples predict…
Does shared positivity make life more meaningful? Perceived positivity resonance is uniquely associated with perceived meaning in life
Pleasantness and meaningfulness are sometimes seen as opposing pursuits. Yet past research has found that the pursuit of meaning often leads to pleasure. In four longitudinal studies-three observational, one experimental, ranging from 5 weeks to 18 months-we investigated an inverse process, whereby specific kinds of pleasant states can foster a sense of meaning in life. We hypothesized that perceptions of positivity resonance, a form of coexperie…
Choosing social partners: How old age and anticipated endings make people more selective.
Response styles and the duration of episodes of depressed mood.
We examined the relationship between ruminative and distracting styles of responding to depressed mood and the duration of mood. Seventy-nine subjects kept accounts of their moods and responses to their moods for 30 consecutive days. The majority of subjects (83%) showed consistent styles of responding to depressed mood. Regression analyses suggested that the more ruminative responses subjects engaged in, the longer their periods of depressed moo…
When More Pain Is Preferred to Less: Adding a Better End
Subjects were exposed to two aversive experiences: in the short trial, they immersed one hand in water at 14 °C for 60 s; in the long trial, they immersed the other hand at 14 °C for 60 s, then kept the hand in the water 30 s longer as the temperature of the water was gradually raised to 15 °C, still painful but distinctly less so for most subjects. Subjects were later given a choice of which trial to repeat. A significant majority chose to repea…
Duration neglect in retrospective evaluations of affective episodes
Two experiments documented a phenomenon of duration neglect in people's global evaluations of past affective experiences. In Study 1, 32 Ss viewed aversive film clips and pleasant film clips that varied in duration and intensity. Ss provided real-time ratings of affect during each clip and global evaluations of each clip when it was over. In Study 2, 96 Ss viewed these same clips and later ranked them by their contribution to an overall experienc…
Socioemotional Behavior at the End of College Life
This study examined daily patterns of social interaction before the anticipated social departure marked by the end of residential college life. Sixty-six college students, 19 of whom faced social and/or geographical relocation associated with college graduation, kept daily accounts of their social activities for 21 consecutive days. Compared with students not facing a social departure, graduating seniors reported greater emotional involvement wit…
Objectification Theory: Toward Understanding Women's Lived Experiences and Mental Health Risks
This article offers objectification theory as a framework for understanding the experiential consequences of being female in a culture that sexually objectifies the female body. Objectification theory posits that girls and women are typically acculturated to internalize an observer's perspective as a primary view of their physical selves. This perspective on self can lead to habitual body monitoring, which, in turn, can increase women's opportuni…
Positive Emotions Speed Recovery from the Cardiovascular Sequelae of Negative Emotions
Two studies tested the hypothesis that certain positive emotions speed recovery from the cardiovascular sequelae of negative emotions. In Study 1, 60 subjects (Ss) viewed an initial fear-eliciting film, and were randomly assigned to view a secondary film that elicited: (a) contentment; (b) amusement; (c) neutrality; or (d) sadness. Compared to Ss who viewed the neutral and sad secondary films, those who viewed the positive films exhibited more ra…
A Mediational Model Linking Self-Objectification, Body Shame, and Disordered Eating
This study tests a mediational model of disordered eating derived from objectification theory (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997). The model proposes that the emotion of body shame mediates the relationship between self-objectification and disordered eating. Two samples of undergraduate women ( n = 93, n = 111) completed self-report questionnaires assessing self-objectification, body shame, anorexic and bulimic symptoms, and dietary restraint. Findings…
That swimsuit becomes you: Sex differences in self-objectification, restrained eating, and math performance
Objectification theory (B. L. Fredrickson & T. Roberts, 1997) posits that American culture socializes women to adopt observers' perspectives on their physical selves. This self-objectification is hypothesized to (a) produce body shame, which in turn leads to restrained eating, and (b) consume attentional resources, which is manifested in diminished mental performance. Two experiments manipulated self-objectification by having participants try on …
What Good Are Positive Emotions
This article opens by noting that positive emotions do not fit existing models of emotions. Consequently, a new model is advanced to describe the form and function of a subset of positive emotions, including joy, interest, contentment, and love. This new model posits that these positive emotions serve to broaden an individual's momentary thought-action repertoire, which in turn has the effect of building that individual's physical, intellectual, …
Gender Differences in Memory Perspectives: Evidence for Self-Objectification in Women
The Undoing Effect of Positive Emotions
Cultivating positive emotions to optimize health and well-being.
This article develops the hypothesis that intervention strategies that cultivate positive emotions are particularly suited for preventing and treating problems rooted in negative emotions, such as anxiety, depression, aggression, and stressrelated health problems. Fredrickson's (1998) broaden–and–build model of positive emotions provides the foundation for this application. According to this model, the form and function of positive and negative e…
Extracting meaning from past affective experiences: The importance of peaks, ends, and specific emotions
This article reviews existing empirical research on the peak-and-end rule. This rule states that people's global evaluations of past affective episodes can be well predicted by the affect experienced during just two moments: the moment of peak affect intensity and the ending. One consequence of the peak-and-end rule is that the duration of affective episodes is largely neglected. Evidence supporting the peak-and-end rule is robust, but qualified.…
The role of positive emotions in positive psychology: The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions
In this article, the author describes a new theoretical perspective on positive emotions and situates this new perspective within the emerging field of positive psychology. The broaden-and-build theory posits that experiences of positive emotions broaden people's momentary thought-action repertoires, which in turn serves to build their enduring personal resources, ranging from physical and intellectual resources to social and psychological resour…
Positive Emotions Trigger Upward Spirals Toward Emotional Well-Being
The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions predicts that positive emotions broaden the scopes of attention and cognition, and, by consequence, initiate upward spirals toward increasing emotional well-being. The present study assessed this prediction by testing whether positive affect and broad-minded coping reciprocally and prospectively predict one another. One hundred thirty-eight college students completed self-report measures of affect…
Trait Self-Objectification in Women: Affective and Personality Correlates
The Value of Positive Emotions
The Value of Positive Emotions
Women's Sports Media, Self-Objectification, and Mental Health in Black and White Adolescent Females
Recent surveys have suggested that sports media exposure may be linked to adolescents' body perceptions. This study tested this relationship from the perspective of objectification theory (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997) by surveying and experimenting with 426 adolescent females aged 10–19. Sports magazine reading predicted greater body satisfaction among older adolescents, regardless of whether they participated in sports. Self-objectification in a…
What good are positive emotions in crisis? A prospective study of resilience and emotions following the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11th, 2001
Gratitude, Like Other Positive Emotions, Broadens and Builds
The broaden–and–build theory of positive emotions
The broaden–and–build theory describes the form and function of a subset of positive emotions, including joy, interest, contentment and love. A key proposition is that these positive emotions broaden an individual's momentary thought–action repertoire: joy sparks the urge to play, interest sparks the urge to explore, contentment sparks the urge to savour and integrate, and love sparks a recurring cycle of each of these urges within safe, close re…
Psychological Resilience and Positive Emotional Granularity: Examining the Benefits of Positive Emotions on Coping and Health
For centuries, folk theory has promoted the idea that positive emotions are good for your health. Accumulating empirical evidence is providing support for this anecdotal wisdom. We use the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions (Fredrickson, 1998; 2001) as a framework to demonstrate that positive emotions contribute to psychological and physical well-being via more effective coping. We argue that the health benefits advanced by positive em…
Resilient Individuals Use Positive Emotions to Bounce Back From Negative Emotional Experiences
Theory indicates that resilient individuals "bounce back" from stressful experiences quickly and effectively.Few studies, however, have provided empirical evidence for this theory.The broadenand-build theory of positive emotions (B.L. Fredrickson, 1998(B.L. Fredrickson, , 2001) ) is used as a framework for understanding psychological resilience.The authors used a multimethod approach in 3 studies to predict that resilient people use positive emot…
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