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Published in Rose Cull, Daniel Cull, Museums and Well-being, 2023
Researchers at University College London published a freely available toolkit23 that includes downloads to allow you to utilise the system in your own museum setting. This toolkit was born from experience in running the Heritage in Hospitals (HinH) project (2008–2011). Based on this experience, they’ve kept it simple.24 The toolkit was developed after a series of Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded workshops in London, Newcastle and Manchester. During these workshops a desire for a generic museum-focused measure of well-being outcomes was expressed. In essence the authors of this toolkit brought their experience from a more clinical setting, hospitals and care homes, and proposed a simplified approach for the museum sector. The chosen methods were selected after a review of the health, well-being and quality of life scales commonly used in clinical settings.25 However, in practice the project team found them to be time-consuming when used outside the healthcare environments, as well as containing superfluous words and overlapping content. The chosen scales included the Positive Affect Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) for psychological well-being,26and two Visual Analogue Scales (VAS) for subjective wellness and happiness.27 These scales ask participants to rate negative and positive words for the emotions, and rating their wellness or happiness on a vertical scale.
Happiness and Social Connectivity
Published in Gia Merlo, Kathy Berra, Lifestyle Nursing, 2023
Nurses are critical to healthcare; thus, the happiness and well-being of nurses is critical to healthcare. Attending to the implications of both positive and negative affect, as well as to the relationship between these two constructs, can allow nurses to effectively manage work-related stress, prevent burnout and staff turnover, and allow for optimal interpersonal relationships within and outside of the workplace (Johnston et al., 2013; Larsen et al., 2017). Further, positive psychology practices and interventions can be utilized to foster positive affect, which, in turn, enhance physical and psychological health and well-being. Positive affect boosts the quality of relationships, which are understood to be one of the most important factors for good quality of life (Diener & Chan, 2011; Diener & Seligman, 2002; Kiecolt-Glaser et al., 2002; Steptoe et al., 2010). Thus, nurses have an opportunity to specifically attend to and cultivate positive affect to support their own well-being and to have a positive impact on students, co-workers, patients, friends, and family.
Exploring Indigenous Spanish Personality Constructs with a Combined Emic-Etic Approach
Published in J.-C. Lasry, J. Adair, K. Dion, Latest Contributions to Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2020
Positive and Negative Affect have been repeatedly related to individual differences in Extroversion and Neuroticism —or Positive and Negative Emotionality— (Meyer & Shack, 1989; Watson & Clark, 1992). Personality correlates of Pleasantness and Engagement have also been established, although to a less significant extent: Global measures of life satisfaction, subjective well-being, and happiness have been related to affects from the Pleasantness octant of the circumplex (Pavot & Diener, 1993), and individual differences in depression, for instance, are found to align with the Unpleasant octant (Watson, Clark, & Carey, 1988). Significant correspondences have also been found between Engagement and the personality dispositions of high affect intensity (Larsen & Diener, 1987) and high activity level (Buss & Plomin, 1984), and between affects from the Disengagement octant and the personality disposition of high emotional control (Watson & Greer, 1983).
Activity, Activity Personalization, and Well-Being in Nursing Home Residents With and Without Cognitive Impairment: An Integrative Review
Published in Clinical Gerontologist, 2022
Sarah Kelly Shryock, Suzanne Meeks
The premise of this review was that engagement in activities would be related to higher well-being among nursing-home residents, based on prior research and theory that connects activities to increased positive affect, which in turn is related to greater psychological well-being and life satisfaction (e.g., Meeks et al., 2018; Qian et al., 2014; Reich, Zautra, & Davis, 2003). Our review included other reviews plus original peer-reviewed intervention and observational studies to pull together the diverse literature on activities in nursing homes. We found consistent support for the idea that activities are related to improved positive affect and well-being. There is consistent and strong evidence that programs offering a variety of activities tailored to individual interests are most effective and evidence from one well-designed RCT directly demonstrating the superiority of tailored versus generic activities. Most specific activities (e.g., pet visits, gardening) have only limited support, in part because many studies lacked methodological rigor or had very small sample sizes and possibly because no activity will be meaningful or positive for everyone. The exceptions were music and life-review therapies, but both of these are tailored to individual preferences or life history when they are most successful.
“A little shiny gender breakthrough”: Community understandings of gender euphoria
Published in International Journal of Transgender Health, 2022
Will J. Beischel, Stéphanie E. M. Gauvin, Sari M. van Anders
One avenue for considering gender euphoria and gender minority stress is that additional resilience factors beyond community connectedness and pride could exist in the inverse of stress factors. Our participants described many experiences of gender euphoria, such as affirmation through correct gendering as echoed in other studies (Pulice-Farrow et al., 2019), that were the opposite of the stressors proposed by this model, such as non-affirmation (Hendricks & Testa, 2012). Another possibility is that gender euphoria may act as a mechanism by which resilience factors buffer against stress. Affect is a strong predictor of physical health, mental health, and life satisfaction (Kuppens et al., 2008; Layous et al., 2014; Xu et al., 2015). Our participants reported gender euphoria as joy, and these feelings may increase positive affect in general and/or reduce the impact of negative experiences on affect. However, gender euphoria may also have more complex links to gender minority stress. Some participants noted that euphoric experiences can actually highlight their dysphoria. Experiences of gender euphoria could therefore have what might seem to be paradoxical connections with minority stress and not reflect interactions between stressors and resiliencies.
Desiring occupation: Theorising the passion, creativity, and social production of everyday life
Published in Journal of Occupational Science, 2022
We wrote this paper in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and the social uprising of #BlackLivesMatter. Considered as an assemblage, #BlackLivesMatter could be understood as the dynamic interrelationship of socio-material elements: the historical context of slavery, colonisation, and Western imperialism; racism and discrimination; income disparity, unemployment, and poverty; marginalisation and disadvantage; white privilege; structural inequities; political instability; health disparity; health and economic policies; advanced capitalism; globalisation; ubiquity of social media; trends of police brutality; the death of George Floyd; and and and. The #BlackLivesMatter assemblage is continually changing – elements within this assemblage are always in-process, shaping and being shaped in relation with each other. The relations between socio-material elements in an assemblage are referred to as affective relations. Affect is a term used in the social sciences to account for social processes, whereby socio-material is continually affecting and being affected. Over the last 20-30 years, there has been a turn to affect and critical analysis of dynamic relations between socio-material bodies in the social world (Kim & Bianco, 2007). The use of the word affect throughout this paper is deliberate, intentionally referring to the mutually influencing relations among things.