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22 Cards in this Set
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Resilience
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Ann Masten – class of phenomenon characterized by good outcomes despite serious threats to adaptation or development.
Ryff & Singer –maintenance, recovery, or improvement in mental or physical health following challenge. Bonnano - maintain relatively stable and healthy levels of physical and psychological functioning despite exposure to trauma. |
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"Ordinary Magic"
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Resilient responses to challenge are quite common across the life span.
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Meaning Making
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An active process of reappraisal and revision of how an event might be interpreted or what it might signify.
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Sense Making
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Making the event comprehensible in terms of beliefs about how the world operates.
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Benefit Finding
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Finding benefits or positive outcomes in trauma and loss.
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Socioemotional Selectivity Theory for Resilience
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As people realize they have fewer years remaining in their lives, they begin to shift their energy and attention away from activities and goals related to the future and come to focus more on the present.
-Developed by Laura Carstensen |
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Post Traumatic Growth
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Positive outcomes arising from traumatic experiences.
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Ames-Rutter Study
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Adoption outcomes in Canada and England of children adopted from Romanian orphanages. Many of the orphanage children had damages
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Impact Bias
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Exaggeration in the strength and duration of anticipated emotional reactions.
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Immune Neglect
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Failure to appreciate our resilience in face of negative events.
– e.g., supportive friends. |
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Focalism
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Restrict attention to event in question and ignore consequences and context of event – e.g., new job versus leaving friends and hassles of finding place to live etc….
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Affective Forecasting
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The study of peoples predictions about the emotional effects of future life events.
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Pleasant Affect
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A positive emotional state involving relatively low arousal.
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Positive Involvement
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Higher arousal states such as feeling inspired, alert, or active.
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Empty Self
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A inner emptiness... Can be caused by drug abuse, eating disorders, compulsive buying, and depression.
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Paradox Of Choice
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More choice may reduce rather than increase well-being.
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Upward Comparison
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Occurs when individuals compare themselves to others who are deemed socially above them in some way
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Socioemotional Selectivity Theory-Happiness
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Predicts no emotional age related declines in well being. Provides a number of reasons for believing that emotional well being may increase with age.
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Schkade and Kahneman Study
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Are Californians happier than Midwesterners? They posed this question to nearly 2000 college students. Both groups were actually equally happy.
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Dunn Study
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Study of student satisfaction within their dorm assignment. Students werent as unhappy as they thought they would be with undesired dorm and as happy as they thought they would be with desired dorm.
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Dynamic equilibrium model
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Suggests that people have positive rather than neutral happiness baselines, and that people return to differing baselines depending on their personalities. In addition peoples level of happiness affects the likelihood of experiencing positive or negative events.
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Diener Study
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Study was "are rich people happier?"
-Survey of 100 wealthiest from Forbes list of 400 wealthiest Americans. Minimum net worth $125 million. 5.8 on 1 to 7 scale of happiness versus 5.0 average American. -Rich reported feeling happy 77% of time. -Average American reported feeling happy 62% of time. (Sample picked out of phone book: average net worth $122,000) -Not all rich are happy: 37% of rich scored lower than average non-rich |
