scholarly journals The Effect of State Gratitude on Cognitive Flexibility: A Within-Subject Experimental Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 413
Author(s):  
Andree Hartanto ◽  
Nadia C. H. Ong ◽  
Wee Qin Ng ◽  
Nadyanna M. Majeed
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Cognitive Functioning ◽  
Cognitive Flexibility ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Experimental Approach ◽  
Main Study ◽  
Considerable Research ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
The Relationship

Considerable research has examined the relationship between positive emotion and cognitive flexibility. Less is known, however, about the causal relationship between discrete positive emotions, specifically gratitude, and cognitive flexibility. Given that different positive emotions may dissimilarly affect cognitive functioning, we sought to examine the effect of state gratitude on cognitive flexibility. A pilot study with ninety-five participants was employed to ensure the effectiveness of our gratitude manipulation. One hundred and thirteen participants were recruited for the main study, which utilized a within-subject experimental approach. After the manipulation, participants completed a well-established task-switching paradigm, which was used to measure cognitive flexibility. Contrary to our hypotheses, we did not find any evidence that state gratitude may enhance cognitive flexibility. The current study identified some boundary conditions around the potential benefits of the experience of gratitude.

scholarly journals Compassion and Workplace Incivility: Implications for Open Innovation

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Sung-Hoon Ko ◽  
Jongsung Kim ◽  
Yongjun Choi
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Workplace Incivility ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Positive Leadership ◽  
Compassion At Work ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Practical Implications

The purpose of this study was to examine mechanisms of how compassion experienced by employees affects workplace incivility. Specifically, this study aimed to explore the double mediation effect of positive emotion and leadership on the relationship between compassion and workplace incivility. Empirical results using survey data from 304 employees in South Korea confirm that employees who experience compassion at work are less likely to engage in workplace incivility. More importantly, positive emotions and positive leadership sequentially mediate the negative relationship between compassion and workplace incivility. The theoretical and practical implications are of this are also discussed.

scholarly journals Job burnout and turnover intention among nurses in China: the mediating effects of positive emotion

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-47
Author(s):  
Li-Feng Yang ◽  
Jing-Ying Liu ◽  
Yan-Hui Liu
Keyword(s):  
Turnover Intention ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Turnover Intentions ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Job Burnout ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Objective The aim of this study was to explore whether positive emotion mediates the relationship between job burnout and turnover intentions among Chinese nurses. Methods A cross-sectional survey was conducted in the present study. Full-time registered nurses (n = 150) from Grade A hospitals in Tianjin were surveyed. Pearson correlation, hierarchical regression analyses, and the Sobel test were used in the study. Results The results illustrated that positive emotion mediated the relationship between burnout and nurses’ turnover intention. Conclusions Nursing administrators should pay more attention to the benefits of positive emotions on working motivation. It is helpful to relieve burnout in the working process so that nurses are willing to remain in their current employment.

scholarly journals Positive leadership and organizational identification: Mediating roles of positive emotion and compassion

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-23
Author(s):  
Sung-Hoon Ko ◽  
Yongjun Choi
Keyword(s):  
Path Analysis ◽  
Organizational Identification ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Positive Leadership ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Managerial Perspective

This study examined the effect of positive leadership experienced by employees on their organizational identification and the mechanisms through how positive leadership enhances organizational identification. Despite the importance of positive leadership at work, such as increasing the followers’ positive self-concepts at work, our understanding of the mechanisms through how positive leadership leads to employees’ organizational identification is still in a nascent state. Thus, this study addresses the research gap by investigating the mediating roles of compassion and positive emotions in the relationship between positive leadership and organizational identification. This study used path analysis and bootstrapping to analyze the survey data collected from 312 full-time employees in 10 large-sized companies located in South Korea. The path analysis results confirmed that positive leadership increases employees’ organizational identification. Furthermore, positive leadership enhances compassion and positive emotions at work, which, in turn, leads to higher organizational identification. Most importantly, the bootstrapping results revealed that both compassion and positive emotion mediate the positive relationship between positive leadership and organizational identification. The empirical results broaden the understanding of the mechanisms through how positive leadership could bring positive effects at work, such as employee organizational identification. Thus, from the managerial perspective, organizations could emphasize the importance of positive leadership at work, and provide the managers with opportunities to develop their positive leadership.

scholarly journals ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION AND BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY EXPLOITATION: POSITIVE EMOTION AS MEDIATOR

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 370-381
Author(s):  
Nor Hafiza Othman ◽  
Norasmah Othman ◽  
Noor Hasni Juhdi
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Opportunity Exploitation ◽  
Business Opportunity ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
The Relationship

Entrepreneurship education can facilitate students’ competency development and enhance their self-employment potential. Students’ involvement in entrepreneurship is influenced by their emotions, especially in the early stages of business start-ups. Without exploiting potential business opportunities, entrepreneurship will not occur. This study aims to determine positive emotion effects on the relationship between entrepreneurship education and business opportunity exploitation. The study’s sample comprise of 152 final year university students. A questionnaire-based survey was the main instrument employed and the hypotheses developed were tested using Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modeling. The findings show that the students’ action to exploit opportunities is significant, and is affected by the exposure to entrepreneurial learning and anticipated effect of positive emotion on entrepreneurship. This finding confirms that anticipated positive emotions are important throughout the entrepreneurial process and form a motivating factor to engage in entrepreneurial activities. Furthermore, the result shows that positive emotions partially mediate the relationship between entrepreneurship education and opportunity exploitation. This study is important for students to experience a paradigm shift towards entrepreneurship and to encourage them to select entrepreneurship as a career option. Future studies could explore the effect of anticipated negative emotions among tertiary education students, and potential entrepreneurs.

scholarly journals The Effect of Positive Emotion and Interpersonal Relationships to Adaptation of School Life on High School Athletic Class Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (17) ◽  
pp. 6354
Author(s):  
Chia-Fu Chang ◽  
Huey-Hong Hsieh ◽  
Hsiu-Chin Huang ◽  
Yu-Lan Huang
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
School Life ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
High School Athletic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Impacts

Background: Adaption for school life is important for all students. As for athletic students, since they need to cope with schoolwork and extensive training, adaption for school life could be very challenging. Taking this into consideration, the purpose of this study was to explore the factors which may help high school athletic students’ adaption of school life. Owing to this, the study explored previous researches and proposed four hypotheses: the first two hypotheses proposed that athletes’ positive emotion will have positive impacts on both their interpersonal relationships and adaption of school life; the third hypothesis suggests that athletes’ interpersonal relationships will have positive impacts on their adaption of school life and the fourth hypothesis suggested that interpersonal relationships play a mediating role among the positive emotion’s effect on adaption of school life. Methods: A total of 800 structured questionnaires were distributed to eleven high schools with athletic class students for data collection with a valid return rate of 90.6%. Structural equation modelling was used to test the relationship among them. Results: The result showed that positive emotion (β = 0.72, p < 0.05) and interpersonal relationships (β = 0.34, p < 0.05) had positive impacts on students’ adaption of school life with a predictive power of 68%. In addition, positive emotion also affected students’ school life adaption through interpersonal relationships. Conclusion: The study confirmed the positive emotion can have significant influences on student athletes’ interpersonal relationships and school life adaption. Implications: According to our findings, we suggest to encourage and promote athletes’ positive emotions so to help them have better interpersonal relationships and school life adaption.

scholarly journals Responding to Positive Emotions at Work – The Four Steps and Potential Benefits of a Validating Response to Coworkers’ Positive Experiences

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miia A. Paakkanen ◽  
Frank Martela ◽  
Anne B. Pessi
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Organizational Outcomes ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Positive Experiences ◽  
Enhanced Learning

In order to capitalize on positive emotions at work and build high-quality interpersonal relationships and psychological safety, it is important that coworkers respond to each other’s positive emotions in a constructive and validating way. However, despite the importance of symmetrical emotion regulation outcomes, organizational research has largely overlooked how an employee can positively respond to coworkers’ positive emotions. Existing research has concentrated almost exclusively on negative ways of responding, with a particular focus on envy. This article develops a theoretical model of employees’ positive responses to coworkers’ positive emotional experiences, introduced here as a validating response. We identify four steps – noticing, sensemaking, feeling, and acting – and the key mechanisms within each step that enable a responder to react in a validating way. We connect the validating response to important potential individual and organizational outcomes. These outcomes include improved relationship quality and trust, as well as increased positivity and well-being that can result in enhanced learning behavior and collaboration. This article also discusses the connection between a validating response and compassion. We identify them both as parallel affirmative processes that acknowledge a coworker’s emotions, with the former being a response to positive emotion while the latter is a response to negative emotion.

scholarly journals Teleological Explanation and Positive Emotion Serially Mediate the Effect of Religion on Well-Being

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Edward Ramsay ◽  
Eddie M. W. Tong ◽  
Avijit Chowdhury ◽  
Moon-Ho Ringo Ho
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Teleological Explanation ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
Daily Events ◽  
Assessment Approach ◽  
Ecological Momentary ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Momentary Assessment

Objective: Previous research has demonstrated a robust relationship between religiosity and well-being, and it has been proposed that positive emotions are important mediators of this effect. Yet the mechanism via which religiosity promotes positive emotions has not been widely studied. We sought to examine whether teleological explanations of daily events and resulting positive emotions serially mediated the effects of religiosity on well-being.Method: These hypotheses were tested over three studies. In study 1, participants completed measures of religiosity and well-being, and explained and described three recent personally significant events and their resulting emotions. Studies 2 and 3 adopted an ecological momentary assessment approach to measure teleological explanations, resulting emotions, and well-being in almost real time.Results: In study 1, teleological explanations and positive emotions partially and serially mediated the effects of religiosity on well-being. In study 2, momentary teleological explanations of daily events fully mediated the positive relationship between religiosity and momentary positive emotions. In Study 3, full serial mediation of the relationship between religiosity and momentary well-being by momentary teleological explanations and positive emotions was observed.Conclusions: These results provide evidence of the importance of teleological explanations of daily events in religious enhancement of well-being.

Emotional complexity across the life story: Diminished positive emodiversity and elevated negative emodiversity in sufferers of chronic depression

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aliza Werner-Seidler ◽  
Caitlin Hitchcock ◽  
Emily Hammond ◽  
Emma Travers-Hill ◽  
Ann-Marie Golden ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Prolonged Exposure ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Clinical Depression ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Treatment Resistant ◽  
The Relationship

Greater diversity in the experience of negative and positive emotion – emodiversity - is associated with better mental health outcomes in the general population (Quoidbach et al. 2014). However, conceptual accounts of clinical depression suggest that extensive and prolonged exposure to negative emotional states might actually be reflected in enhanced diversity across negative emotion experiences. Conversely, the opportunity to experience a myriad of varied positive emotions is likely to be reduced in depression, given existing deficits in positive affective experience associated with the disorder. In this study, the diversity of negative and positive emotion experiences in a treatment-resistant chronically depressed sample and a never-depressed control group were compared. We hypothesized that depressed individuals (n=22) would show enhanced emodiversity in the negative emotion domain but reduced emodiversity in the positive domain, relative to the control group (n=20). Results supported these hypotheses. Analyses also showed that among those with depression, reduced positive emodiversity was associated with disorder chronicity, such that both length of time depressed and frequency of past episodes were linked to reduced positive emodiversity. No support was found for an association between negative emotion diversity and depression chronicity. This study provides the first investigation into the relationship between clinical depression and emodiversity, and suggests that supporting depressed individuals to experience a range of diverse positive emotions could be a valuable therapeutic target.

scholarly journals Positive emotion dispositions and emotion regulation in the Italian population

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. e0245545
Author(s):  
Alice Chirico ◽  
Michelle N. Shiota ◽  
Andrea Gaggioli
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Italian Population ◽  
Negative Affects ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Italian Sample

The goal of this large-scale study was to test the relationship between positive emotion dispositions (i.e., Joy, Contentment, Pride, Love, Compassion, Amusement, and Awe) and two strategies of emotion regulation (i.e., reappraisal and suppression) in the Italian population. 532 Italian-speaking adults completed the Dispositional Positive Emotion Scales (DPES), the Positive and Negative Affective Schedule (PANAS), the Italian Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ), and the Big-Five Inventory (BFI). DPES scales showed high reliability. Exploratory Factor Analysis showed that a 6-factor model fits the Italian sample better. Joy and Contentment loaded on the same factor. Items assessing the other five emotions loaded on separate factors. The patterns of relationships between positive emotion dispositions, positive and negative affects traits (PANAS), and personality traits (BFI) indicated concurrent validity of the DPES. Twelve separated multiple regression models with BFI and ERQ factors as predictors and DPES factors as response variables showed that Extraversion significantly positively predicted of all DPES emotions. Agreeableness predicted Happiness, Love, Compassion, and Awe positively. Conscientiousness predicted Amusement and Love negatively and Compassion, Pride, and Happiness positively. Neuroticism predicted all emotions negatively except for Compassion. Positive emotions were significantly and positively predicted by reappraisal, and negatively predicted by suppression.

Does Ego-Resilience Impact Friendship Outcomes?

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth B. Lozano ◽  
Mahzad Hojjat ◽  
Judith Sims-Knight
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Ego Resilience ◽  
Maintenance Behaviors ◽  
Received Social Support ◽  
Trait Resilience ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. The present study examined the relationship between resilience and positive outcomes in friendships of young adults. SEM and bootstrapping analyses were performed to test whether positive emotions mediate the relationship between ego-resilience and enhanced friendship outcomes. Findings revealed indirect effects for friendship closeness, maintenance behaviors, and received social support. Our findings demonstrate the importance of positive emotions and its connection with trait resilience in the realm of friendships.

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