PSY336H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Cardiovascular Disease, Random Assignment, Psychological Resilience
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Resilient individuals use positive -emotions to bounce back from negative. Experience of positive emotions contributed, in part, to participants" abilities to achieve efficient emotion regulation, demonstrated by accelerated cardiovascular recovery from negative emotional arousal: and finding positive meaning in negative circumstances. Psychological resilience: effective coping and adaptation although faced with loss, hardship, or adversity: ability to bounce back from negative emotional experiences, flexible adaptation to the changing demands of stressful experiences. Resilient individuals have optimistic, zestful, and energetic approaches to life, are curious and open to new experiences: high positive emotionality. High-resilient people proactively cultivate their positive emotionality by strategically eliciting positive emotions through the use of humor, relaxation techniques, and optimistic thinking. Positive emotionality = important element of psychological resilience. Positive coping strategies, are related to the occurrence and maintenance of positive affect: ex. positive reappraisal, problem-focused coping, and infusing ordinary events with positive meaning, predict increases in psychological well- being and health.
