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Savoring the present: The reciprocal influence between positive emotions and positive emotion regulation in everyday life
A growing body of research has investigated the regulation of negative emotions in ecological settings, but little is known about the mechanisms underlying positive emotion regulation in everyday life. Although some evidence suggests that adopting positive strategies is beneficial for emotional well...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8112694/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33974680 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251561 |
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author | Colombo, Desirée Pavani, Jean-Baptiste Fernandez-Alvarez, Javier Garcia-Palacios, Azucena Botella, Cristina |
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description | A growing body of research has investigated the regulation of negative emotions in ecological settings, but little is known about the mechanisms underlying positive emotion regulation in everyday life. Although some evidence suggests that adopting positive strategies is beneficial for emotional well-being, the literature is inconsistent about the effects of positive emotions on subsequent regulatory processes. In the present study, we adopted a two-week ecological momentary assessment to explore the association between positive emotions and positive emotion regulation in daily life. According to our results, the less individuals felt positive emotions at one point, the more they tended to enhance their use of positive strategies from this time to the next, which in turn resulted in subsequent higher levels of positive emotions. This prototype of positive regulation can be seen as a highly adaptive mechanism that makes it possible to compensate for a lack of positive emotions by enhancing the deployment of positive strategies. The theoretical and clinical implications of these findings are discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-81126942021-05-24 Savoring the present: The reciprocal influence between positive emotions and positive emotion regulation in everyday life Colombo, Desirée Pavani, Jean-Baptiste Fernandez-Alvarez, Javier Garcia-Palacios, Azucena Botella, Cristina PLoS One Research Article A growing body of research has investigated the regulation of negative emotions in ecological settings, but little is known about the mechanisms underlying positive emotion regulation in everyday life. Although some evidence suggests that adopting positive strategies is beneficial for emotional well-being, the literature is inconsistent about the effects of positive emotions on subsequent regulatory processes. In the present study, we adopted a two-week ecological momentary assessment to explore the association between positive emotions and positive emotion regulation in daily life. According to our results, the less individuals felt positive emotions at one point, the more they tended to enhance their use of positive strategies from this time to the next, which in turn resulted in subsequent higher levels of positive emotions. This prototype of positive regulation can be seen as a highly adaptive mechanism that makes it possible to compensate for a lack of positive emotions by enhancing the deployment of positive strategies. The theoretical and clinical implications of these findings are discussed. Public Library of Science 2021-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8112694/ /pubmed/33974680 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251561 Text en © 2021 Colombo et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Colombo, Desirée Pavani, Jean-Baptiste Fernandez-Alvarez, Javier Garcia-Palacios, Azucena Botella, Cristina Savoring the present: The reciprocal influence between positive emotions and positive emotion regulation in everyday life |
title | Savoring the present: The reciprocal influence between positive emotions and positive emotion regulation in everyday life |
title_full | Savoring the present: The reciprocal influence between positive emotions and positive emotion regulation in everyday life |
title_fullStr | Savoring the present: The reciprocal influence between positive emotions and positive emotion regulation in everyday life |
title_full_unstemmed | Savoring the present: The reciprocal influence between positive emotions and positive emotion regulation in everyday life |
title_short | Savoring the present: The reciprocal influence between positive emotions and positive emotion regulation in everyday life |
title_sort | savoring the present: the reciprocal influence between positive emotions and positive emotion regulation in everyday life |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8112694/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33974680 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251561 |
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