Dissertation
Enhancing positive outcomes through increasing savoring the moment
Washington State University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
08/2010
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000006139
Abstract
Recently, the positive psychology literature has moved towards creating and testing interventions to increase positive outcomes, such as happiness, positive affect, and satisfaction with life and to decrease negative outcomes, such as depressive symptoms. One of these possible interventions involves increasing savoring the moment. Savoring the moment is the trait of focusing on positive events while they occur to increase positive emotions in the present moment. The focus of the present study was to test the ability of a savoring the moment intervention to increase positive outcomes and decrease negative outcomes over a two week time span. It was found that, when compared to the control group, the savoring the moment intervention group experienced significant decreases in depressive symptoms and negative affect. That being said, levels of happiness, subjective happiness, satisfaction with life, and positive affect did not differ between the two groups. Additionally, a significant interaction between the condition of the participants and the number of subjective positive events was found for positive affect. In this case, the savoring the moment intervention participants had higher levels of positive affect only when there were low numbers of positive events. Implications for clinical interventions and future research are explored.
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- Title
- Enhancing positive outcomes through increasing savoring the moment
- Creators
- Daniel Brian Hurley
- Contributors
- Paul Kwon (Chair)G Leonard Burns (Committee Member) - Washington State University, Department of PsychologyCraig David Parks (Committee Member) - Washington State University, Office of the Provost
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Department of Psychology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 106
- Identifiers
- 99901055120201842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation