Sentences with phrase «positive affective experiences»

Playful interactions, focused on positive affective experiences, are never forgotten as being an integral part of most treatment sessions, when the client is receptive.

Marital therapy should be primarily a positive affective experience.

The assumptions that the interventions should be easy to do and that marital therapy should primarily be a positive affective experience are equally important because, in my experience, many clients are afraid of and reluctant to participate in marital or couples therapy.

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The following are common characteristics of gifted children, although not all will necessarily apply to every gifted child: • Has an extensive and detailed memory, particularly in a specific area of interest • Has advanced vocabulary for his or her age; uses precocious language • Has communication skills advanced for his or her age and is able to express ideas and feelings • Asks intelligent and complex questions • Is able to identify the important characteristics of new concepts and problems • Learns information quickly • Uses logic in arriving at common sense answers • Has a broad base of knowledge; a large quantity of information • Understands abstract ideas and complex concepts • Uses analogical thinking, problem solving, or reasoning • Observes relationships and sees connections • Finds and solves difficult and unusual problems • Understands principles, forms generalizations, and uses them in new situations • Wants to learn and is curious • Works conscientiously and has a high degree of concentration in areas of interest • Understands and uses various symbol systems • Is reflective about learning • Is enraptured by a specific subject • Has reading comprehension skills advanced for his or her age • Has advanced writing abilities for his or her age • Has strong artistic or musical abilities • Concentrates intensely for long periods of time, particularly in a specific area of interest • Is more aware, stimulated, and affected by surroundings • Experiences extreme positive or negative feelings • Experiences a strong physical reaction to emotion • Has a strong affective memory, re-living or re-feeling things long after the triggering event

The Positive Affect and Negative Affect Schedule (Watson et al., 1988; Terracciano et al., 2003) assessed the affective components of subjective well - being by requiring participants to indicate on a 5 - point Likert scale to what extent (1 = very slightly, 5 = extremely) they generally experienced 20 adjectives describing affective states (10 for positive affect and 10 for negative affect) during a specific period («in this moment, today, last week, last month, or generally&Positive Affect and Negative Affect Schedule (Watson et al., 1988; Terracciano et al., 2003) assessed the affective components of subjective well - being by requiring participants to indicate on a 5 - point Likert scale to what extent (1 = very slightly, 5 = extremely) they generally experienced 20 adjectives describing affective states (10 for positive affect and 10 for negative affect) during a specific period («in this moment, today, last week, last month, or generally&positive affect and 10 for negative affect) during a specific period («in this moment, today, last week, last month, or generally»).

Attentional orienting skills, in particular, have been identified as a critical component of the regulatory process, since orienting has the direct effect of amplifying, at a neural level, the stimuli toward which attention is directed, changing the affective experience of the individual.17 Thus, orienting skills assist in the management of both negative and positive emotions, and consequently in the development of adaptive control of emotion and behaviour.

Sixty adolescents (M age = 13.24, SD = 1.03, 66.7 % female) with high (HD) and low (LD) depressive symptoms rated the predominant affective expression in ambiguous stimuli with varying intensity (happy - sad, happy - angry, sad - angry) prior to and following a negative (social rejection), positive (social inclusion), or no social experience with the depicted model identities.

For their first slider rating, 17 older and 8 younger participants indicated that they were in a neutral or positive mood and accordingly were classified as rapid regulators, whereas 17 older and 17 younger adults still reported experiencing a negative affective state — they were classified as nonregulators.

Additionally, with more years of emotion regulation experience, young rapidly regulating individuals may come to resemble their older counterparts both in affective profile and in their ability to sustain a regulated positive mood over a prolonged period of time.

Second, we also expect affective empathy to be associated with spousal support provision, such that when the provider experiences affective empathy (i.e., empathic concern, personal distress), the provider will offer higher levels of positive support (i.e., more emotional and instrumental support) and lower levels of negative forms of support (Hypothesis 2).

Making the break count: an episodic examination of recovery activities, emotional experiences, and performance of positive affective displays.