Exercise Frequency,
High Activation Positive Affect, and Psychological Well - Being: Beyond Age, Gender, and Occupation
Not exact matches
Research has linked the
positive feeling we often experience while talking about ourselves to
higher levels of
activation in areas of the brain associated with reward.
While the dorsal striatum displayed more substantial
activation when participants were perturbed by the
positive and negative rewards, the ventral striatum activity was only
higher for the
positive reward.
For
positive emotional faces, considering the spreading effects of
activation of secure base schema, it was assumed that both levels (
high and low) of attachment anxiety are associated with increased activities in brain circuits that are responsible for
positive emotions and the regions belonging to the reward system.
Using structural equation modeling, emotion - related variables were identified that were common to both anxiety and depression (poor emotion awareness, emotion dysregulation, poor emotion regulation coping,
high frequency of negative affect), most strongly related to depression (low frequency of
positive affect), and most distinctly associated with anxiety (frequency of emotion experience, somatic response to emotion
activation).