The PreCardio-study protocol – a randomized clinical trial of a multidisciplinary electronic cardiovascular prevention programme-0

<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "The PreCardio-study protocol – a randomized clinical trial of a multidisciplinary electronic cardiovascular prevention programme"</p><p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2261/7/27</p><p>BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2007;7():27-27.</p><p>Published online 4 Sep 2007</p><p>PMCID:PMC2045658.</p><p></p

Measuring Gratitude Validation of the Dutch S-GRAT and GQ-6

Poster presented at the European Conference for Positive Psychology in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 2014

2014 | Giving up Crime: Daily-life emotional experience and perceived support in detainees participating in the rehabilitation program ‘Giving up Crime’ (Kiezen voor Verandering) (conference poster, 2014)

The person centered method Giving up Crime (GUC) promotes recovery and desistance from crime in (ex)detainees by capitalizing on personal strengths and stimulating intrinsic goal restructuring. Although GUC is positively evaluated by detainees and prison officers, insight in the mechanisms underlying these appraisals is scant. This study investigates the effects of GUC on detainees´ emotional experience and perceived levels of support in the realm of daily life. (study was performed with permission of The Dutch Custodial Institutions Agency - DJI

Gratitude and Associated Demographic Determinants, Psychological Distress and Subjective Well-being a 7.5 Month Prospective Study

Poster presented at the European Conference for Positive Psychology in Anger, France in 2016

2018 | Momentary Well-Being at Work: The Role of Relatedness (conference presentation, 2018)

<div><b>Momentary Well-Being at Work: The Role of Relatedness</b></div><div><br></div><div>Marianne van Woerkom(1), Nele Jacobs(2)(3), Sanne Peeters(2)(3), Mayke Janssens(2)(3), Jennifer Reijnders(2), <b>Johan Lataster(2)(3)*</b></div><div> </div><div>1 Department of Human Resource Studies, Tilburg University; Tilburg, The Netherlands</div><div>2 Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Open University; Heerlen, The Netherlands</div><div>3 Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University Medical Centre; Maastricht, The Netherlands</div><div><b>* presenter</b></div><div><br></div><div>Presented as part of symposium</div><div><b>'Caring Relationships in Organizations: Effects, Antecedents, and Related Mechanisms'</b></div><div>9th European Conference on Positive Psychology, June 27-30th, Budapest, Hungary</div><div><br></div><div>Symposium Chair: Shiri Lavy(4)</div><div> </div><div>4 Department for Leadership and Policy in Education, University of Haifa, Israel</div

Upward Spirals of Gratitude and Positive Affect in Daily Life: a Time-lagged Ecological Assessment Study

The sample consisted of 106 participants (<i>M</i>_age<i> </i>= 39, <i>SD</i>_age<i> </i>=15, range 18 – 65) among which 43 men (41%), that completed on average 46 (68%) out of 70 diary assessments (<i>SD</i> = 12; <i>Min</i> = 23, <i>Max</i> = 70), resulting in a total of 4,870 observations

Punishment-related behaviour: Regression coefficients and p-values of the <i>interaction effects</i> (NA x behaviour at lags 1 and 2 on behaviour at (t)) at beep and day level.

<p>^φn is either 1 (in case of 1 lag) or 2 (in case of 2 lags)</p><p>* significant finding (α < 0.05).</p><p>Punishment-related behaviour: Regression coefficients and p-values of the <i>interaction effects</i> (NA x behaviour at lags 1 and 2 on behaviour at (t)) at beep and day level.</p

From Affective Experience to Motivated Action: Tracking Reward-Seeking and Punishment-Avoidant Behaviour in Real-Life

<div><p>Many of the decisions and actions in everyday life result from implicit learning processes. Important to psychopathology are, for example, implicit reward-seeking and punishment-avoidant learning processes. It is known that when specific actions get associated with a rewarding experience, such as positive emotions, that this will increase the likelihood that an organism will engage in similar actions in the future. Similarly, when actions get associated with punishing experiences, such as negative emotions, this may reduce the likelihood that the organism will engage in similar actions in the future. This study examines whether we can observe these implicit processes prospectively in the flow of daily life. If such processes take place then we expect that current behaviour can be predicted by how similar behaviour was experienced (in terms of positive and negative affect) at previous measurement moments. This was examined in a sample of 621 female individuals that had participated in an Experience Sampling data collection. Measures of affect and behaviour were collected at 10 semi-random moments of the day for 5 consecutive days. It was examined whether affective experience that was paired with certain behaviours (physical activity and social context) at previous measurements modified the likelihood to show similar behaviours at next measurement moments. Analyses were performed both at the level of observations (a time scale with units of ± 90 min) and at day level (a time scale with units of 24 h). As expected, we found that affect indeed moderated the extent to which previous behaviour predicted similar behaviour later in time, at both beep- and day-level. This study showed that it is feasible to track reward-seeking and punishment-avoidant behaviour prospectively in humans in the flow of daily life. This opens up a new toolbox to examine processes determining goal-oriented behaviour in relation to psychopathology in humans.</p></div

shows the correlations, at observation-level, between negative affect, positive affect, (un)pleasantness of company and physical activity.

<p>shows the correlations, at observation-level, between negative affect, positive affect, (un)pleasantness of company and physical activity.</p

shows beta-coefficients for reward- and punishment-related behaviour at beep level and day level for lag t-1.

<p>The first two bars in each Fig. represent the analyses with positive affect at t-1 as the moderator of the time-lagged association between daily contexts and the second two bars represent the analyses with negative affect at t-1 as the moderator of these analyses. Each first bar is the within-context association (the same context is predictor at t-1 and outcome measure at t. This bar thus reflects the extent to which affect valence moderates the association between the analysed behaviour at time t-1 on the same behaviour at time t. The second bar refers to the cross-context association: the extent to which affect moderates the time-lagged association <i>across</i> daily contexts (for example: social context as the predictor and physical activity as the outcome). Error bars represent confidence intervals. The Fig.s show that, as hypothesized, positive and negative affect both significantly moderate the impact of behaviour at time t-1 on similar behaviour at time t, except for the analyses regarding physical activity at day-level (<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0129722#pone.0129722.g002" target="_blank">Fig 2d</a>).</p