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Positive Psychology and Relational Connectedness
Published in Michelle Tollefson, Nancy Eriksen, Neha Pathak, Improving Women's Health Across the Lifespan, 2021
Patients can be encouraged to participate in a variety of positive activities to avoid hedonic adaptation and lower positive emotions.83 Study participants asked to vary their weekly acts of kindness reported greater increases in well-being than those who did the same kindness activity every week.84 Active appreciation and savoring of the positive emotion can also slow adaptation.,84,85
Living Optimally
Published in Lisa D. Hinz, Beyond Self-Care for Helping Professionals, 2018
Psychological capital increases evaluations of available personal resources, mitigates against the prevailing negativity bias, and reduces the likelihood of “hedonic adaptation” (Youssef-Morgan & Luthans, 2015). Hedonic adaptation refers to a tendency for human emotion to quickly return to a baseline level of happiness shortly after spikes in emotion caused by significantly positive or negative life events (Quoidbach & Dunn, 2013). However, merely abstaining from a favorite activity for a time as short as one week can reduce hedonic adaptation. It can be prevented simply by increasing diversity of experience. Working on a variety of life goals can help defend against the development of hedonic adaptation and sustain well-being (Youssef-Morgan & Luthans, 2015).
The complexity of interpreting changes observed over time in health-related quality of life: A short overview of 15 years of research on response shift theory
Published in Francis Guillemin, Alain Leplège, Serge Briançon, Elisabeth Spitz, Joël Coste, Perceived Health and Adaptation in Chronic Disease, 2017
Antoine Vanier, Bruno Falissard, Véronique Sébille, Jean-Benoit Hardouin
This debate has been emphasized in a commentary by Ubel et al. (2010), which proposed to abandon the term RS. They argued that the use of the term RS does not help to disentangle two different phenomena. To them, the occurrence of recalibration is a threat to the validity of self-reports (i.e., a measurement bias), obscuring an appropriate assessment of true change (i.e., a change in the latent targeted construct itself, which corresponds to Golembiewski et al. (1976) alpha change). However, they view reprioritization and reconceptualization as processes by which people emotionally adapt to circumstances, leading to true change in HRQoL. Thus to them, the indistinct use of the term RS has led researchers to think of RS as mainly an issue of measurement bias. Therefore, they proposed to dichotomize RS by using the term “scale recalibration” when referring to recalibration RS, and using a term such as “emotional adaptation” or “hedonic adaptation” when referring to reprioritization and reconceptualization RS (Stanton et al., 2007; Carver and Scheier, 1982, 2000).
Happiness of Older Adults in Haemodialysis: Findings from a Comparative Study
Published in Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 2023
Claudia A. Valente Santos, Joyce Aguiar, Jorge Gato, Anne Marie G. V. Fontaine, Daniela F. de Freitas, Luciana Kusumota
In an Australian study, Bennett et al. (2015) found that patients undergoing HD reported lower life satisfaction scores than healthy individuals. In contrast, Riis et al. (2005) found no evidence that American patients undergoing any form of treatment presented lower SWB when compared to healthy individuals. The authors highlighted the patient’s capacity to adapt to the current health condition (Riis et al., 2005). The ability to adapt to new situations, irrespective of whether these are negative or positive experiences, is called hedonic adaptation (Luhmann & Intelisano, 2018; Lyubomirsky, 2011; Riis et al., 2005).