scholarly journals Positive emotions, positive feelings and health: A life philosophy

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Carrie Lim Ching ◽  
Vivian Li Chan
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Psychology Today ◽  
Positive Feelings ◽  
Life Philosophy

The paper was intended to explore the correlation between emotion and feeling. It has involved two phenomena referring to health. Positive emotions experienced by humans are not born spontaneously. Various good and pleasant things make us experience positive emotions. Those feelings make us enjoy life's moments. As reported by Psychology Today, feeling positive emotions makes us healthier physically and mentally. Feeling it with others will also foster trust and compassion. Positive emotions will also keep people from stress. happy feelings are the emotions most often talked about and known. However, there are a variety of other positive emotions that are nuances of feeling happy. In 2009, psychologist Barbara Frederickson in her book Positivity identified 10 other positive emotions that are universally felt by humans in addition to feeling happy.

Perceived Similarity in Identity Meanings, Identity Verification, and Positive Emotions

2019 ◽  
pp. 35-52
Author(s):  
Matthew Grindal ◽  
Ryan Trettevik
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Dropping Out ◽  
Student Identity ◽  
Perceived Similarity ◽  
Identity Verification ◽  
Positive Feelings

Past research suggests that perceived similarity promotes good feelings and positive relationships between partners (Byrne, 1971). Current research in identity theory offers a theoretical framework for understanding part of this process. According to identity theory, when people experience identity verification, they feel good, which can generate social bonds. In this study, we examine the role of perceived similarity in identity meanings, and how this may be associated with identity verification, and in turn, positive feelings. Using survey data examining the student identity among a sample of college students, we find that students who perceive similarities between their own views of themselves as students and their close friends’ views of themselves as students are more likely to experience positive emotions. This effect is partially mediated by heightened identity verification. The theoretical implications for incorporating the concept of perceived similarity into identity theory are discussed, along with the applications of these findings to at-risk college students who are most vulnerable to dropping out.

Feelings about language brokering

Interpreting ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aída Martínez-Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Language Brokering ◽  
Interpreter Education ◽  
Language Brokers ◽  
Positive Feelings ◽  
Qualitative Analyses

Abstract Young language brokers have a complex emotional relationship with the translation and interpreting tasks that they engage in for their families and communities. Whereas they often report feeling happy, useful and proud of themselves for being able to contribute to their families’ well-being, they also struggle with frustration, pressure from their loved ones, and cognitive and emotional burdens. This study aims to map the evolution of feelings regarding language brokering among young adults and to reveal the effects that formal interpreting education might have in this process. For these purposes, it examines the narratives of 75 self-identified former and/or current language brokers who are registered in an undergraduate interpreting program in the United States. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of these narratives (collected at three different points during their course of study) indicate that the participants feel more positively than negatively about their brokering tasks and that positive emotions increase overall throughout their interpreter education (with a noticeable peak halfway through the program). These analyses also reveal how triggers for positive and negative emotion shift through time: whereas their enhanced skills contribute to positive feelings, poor working conditions and brokering settings beyond their immediate families become new stressors.

scholarly journals Translation Procedure of Happy Emotion of English into Indonesian in Kṛṣṇa Text

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 738
Author(s):  
I Wayan Suryasa ◽  
I Nengah Sudipa ◽  
Ida Ayu Made Puspani ◽  
I Made Netra
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Positive Thinking ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Cultural System ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Complex Procedure ◽  
Positive Feelings ◽  
High Level ◽  
Translation Procedure

The current study is aimed at identifying the translation procedure of happy emotion of English into Indonesian. The emotion of happy is translated into several words included bahagia, senang, suka, lega, kesenangan, gembira ria, riang, ceria, patah hati, and tenteram. The structural and metalinguistic differences between language and culture, the effects of certain styles cannot be achieved without disturbing lexis or syntactic order in the target language. In such cases, it is a more complex procedure must be used to convey the meaning of the source text. It may looks quite modern, or even unusual, indirect translation procedure allow translators to exercise over strict control the reliability of their efforts. The cultural system owned in SL and TL is at a high level and/or high context. It prioritizes positive emotions, positive thinking, and positive face rather than negative emotions. It is possible to be an evaluative the emotion in a part or fully their configuration meaning and explication technique. The most of emotive words has a positive evaluation regarded to positive feelings. It is categorized as a style and strategy communication.

Regret

2019 ◽  
pp. 97-114
Author(s):  
Rachel Chrastil
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Older Women ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Voluntary Childlessness ◽  
Childless Women ◽  
Positive Feelings ◽  
Looking Back

Childless women often anticipate that they will regret not having children. How does regret play out in terms of childlessness? This chapter examines the feeling of regret through a variety of lenses: Do childless people experience fewer positive emotions and more negative emotions than parents? How does voluntary childlessness differ from involuntary childlessness? How do measures of life satisfaction differ from measures of positive feelings? What do studies of older women looking back on their lives reveal about their regrets? Do parents ever regret having had children? Finally, what are the limitations to allowing the fear of regret to drive our decisions?

Positive Emotions

2011 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 458-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Gracia ◽  
Arnold B. Bakker ◽  
Rosa M. Grau
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Customer Loyalty ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Affective Responses ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Quality Perceptions ◽  
Positive Feelings ◽  
Multigroup Structural Equation Modeling

Although customer quality evaluations is a recognized precursor to loyalty, several studies have indicated that loyalty also depends on favorable customer emotions toward a hotel or restaurant. This model of developing loyalty can be summarized as a process that begins with the customer’s favorable assessment of service quality; continues with positive feelings toward the establishment; and ends with loyalty behavior, including repeat purchases and favorable recommendations. To assess this process, a cognitive-affective-conative model is tested, using separate constructs to clarify the specific role of customers’ positive affective responses in enhancing customer loyalty. Based on a sample of 586 hotel customers and 571 restaurant customers from 120 Spanish establishments, the results of the multigroup structural equation modeling analyses confirmed the proposed hypothesis that service quality increases positive affective responses, and these, in turn, increase customer loyalty. Thus, positive affective responses partially mediate the relationship between service quality perceptions and customer loyalty in hotels and restaurants simultaneously. These results suggest that customer loyalty in hotels and restaurants may follow a process were cognitive evaluations and emotions play an important role.

scholarly journals Transference interpretations as predictors of increased insight and affect expression in a single case of long-term psychoanalysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasemin Sohtorik İlkmen ◽  
Sibel Halfon
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Specific Effects ◽  
Affect Expression ◽  
Thematic Units ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Positive Feelings ◽  
Transference Relationship

Improved insight and affect expression have been associated with specific effects of transference work in psychodynamic psychotherapy. However, the micro-associations between these variables as they occur within the sessions have not been studied. The present study investigated whether the analyst’s transference interpretations predicted changes in a patient’s insight and emotion expression in her language during the course of a long-term psychoanalysis. 449 thematic units from 30 sessions coming from different years of psychoanalysis were coded by outside raters for analyst’s use of transference interpretations using Transference Work Scale, and patient’s insight, positive emotions, anger and sadness were calculated using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count System. Multilevel modeling analyses indicated that transference interpretations positively predicted patient’s insight and positive emotion words and negatively predicted anger and sadness. The qualitative micro-analyses of selected sessions showed that the opportunity to explore negative emotions within the transference relationship reduced the patient’s avoidance of such feelings, generated insight into negative relational patterns, and helped form more balanced representations of self and others that allowed for positive feelings. The findings were discussed for clinical implications and future research directions.

scholarly journals An empirical and experiential investigation into the contemplation of joy

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen D. Edwards ◽  
David J. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Small Pilot Study ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Dalai Lama ◽  
Research Hypothesis ◽  
Positive Feelings ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Desmond Tutu

The research was generally motivated by a dearth of studies on joy, and particularly inspired by a book of joy celebrating the inter-spiritual dialogue between the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu. Its aim was to investigate whether the direct contemplation of joy would be associated with improvements in psychophysiological coherence, spirituality and various positive emotions and feelings. Integrative quantitative and qualitative findings emerging from a small pilot study, including a convenience sample of six participants with a mean age of 42 years and age range of 25–69 years, supported the research hypothesis. Significant quantitative increases in psychophysiological coherence, spirituality and positive feelings were coherently and consistently supported by participants’ individual and collective experiences. Integrative discussion amplified the paradoxical theme of joy through suffering in human emotional and spiritual life.

Emotional responses of oncologists when disclosing prognostic information to patients with terminal disease: Results of qualitative data from a mailed survey to ASCO members

2006 ◽  
Vol 24 (18_suppl) ◽  
pp. 8520-8520 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Wallace ◽  
F. J. Hlubocky ◽  
C. K. Daugherty
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Advanced Cancer Patients ◽  
Prognostic Information ◽  
Male Predominance ◽  
Positive Feelings ◽  
Gift Card ◽  
Mailed Survey

8520 Background: Prior studies describe physician reluctance to reveal prognostic information to advanced cancer patients (acp), but little data exists describing their actual disclosure practices. Methods: A mailed survey was conducted to assess medical oncologists’ (MOs) self-reported behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes regarding prognostic conversations with terminally ill acp. Following letter pre-notification, surveys were mailed to a systematic sample of 1,222 MOs with U.S. addresses listed in the 2004 ASCO Membership Directory. Surveys contained a $25 gift card. The survey included qualitative questions eliciting emotional responses when communicating prognostic information to acp. Results: 729 surveys were completed and returned (60% response rate) with 654 providing qualitative responses (90%). The median age was 51 (range, 34–80) with male predominance (80%). Practice representation was: 56% (private), 23% (academic-based) and 20% (other active practice). MOs most commonly (47%) expressed negative emotions including sadness, pain, depression, heartache, feelings of loss, guilt, anxiety, stress, and finally discomfort with how their patient might react. They reported these conversations as unhappy, unpleasant, frustrating, and bothersome. They also described them as difficult, hard, exhausting and/or draining. 31% of MOs reported empathy, sympathy, compassion, caring, supportiveness, comfort, or being calm during prognostic disclosure. 14% reported positive feelings including optimism, hope, helpfulness, gratification, reward, or relief. 11% related emotional objectivity, detachment, control, or neutrality. Finally, MOs responses listed younger acp age as being a determinant of negative emotions. Conclusions: Negative emotions are more commonly described by MOs when asked to discuss their feelings toward prognostic disclosure. A lesser proportion described objectivity or a lack of emotion. Some related positive emotions. This qualitative data provides a greater explanation for MOs reluctance to disclose prognostic information. No significant financial relationships to disclose.

New Perspectives On the Role of the Heart in Positive Emotions, Intuition, and Social Coherence

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rollin McCraty ◽  
Robert A. Rees
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Neural Pathways ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Cortical Function ◽  
Positive Feelings ◽  
Social Coherence ◽  
The Brain

Scientific research has established the existence of complex, highly sophisticated neural pathways that connect the human heart and brain, confirming that the activity of the heart directly influences the activity of higher brain centers involved in perceptual and cognitive processing and in the creation of emotional experience. This chapter examines research that has found that different emotions are reflected in state-specific patterns in the heart’s rhythms. Recent work has demonstrated a 75% accuracy in the detection of discrete emotional states from the heart rate variability (HRV) signal. As people experience sincere positive feelings, the more ordered information flowing from the heart to the brain facilitates cortical function and improves cognitive performance. These findings may help explain the significant shifts in broadened perception, increased mental clarity, and heightened intuitive awareness reported by many individuals when practicing heart-centered, positive emotion–refocusing and restructuring techniques.

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