Background And Objectives: Savoring beliefs refer to people's beliefs about their ability to generate, increase, and prolong enjoyment from positive experiences. The role of these beliefs in affecting responses to negative events is largely unexplored. This study aimed to increase knowledge about the role of savoring beliefs in symptoms of posttraumatic stress (PTS) following negative life events and the incremental role of these beliefs beyond the impact of worry, depressive rumination, and neuroticism.
Design: A two-wave longitudinal survey.
Methods: Two-hundred and five students completed the Savoring Beliefs Inventory, measuring one's ability to generate pleasure from past, present, and anticipated experiences at Time 1 (T1). Six months later (at T2), they rated adverse life-events experienced between T1 and T2 and completed measures of PTS (associated with the most distressing event experienced in this time-frame) and depression.
Results: Savoring beliefs at T1 were correlated with PTS total scores and PTS clusters and depression at T2. Regression analyses indicated that savoring beliefs regarding present and future (but not past) events were associated with some, but not all T2-outcomes, above and beyond worry, depressive rumination, and neuroticism.
Conclusions: This study confirms that increased savoring beliefs could mitigate the impact of confrontation with adverse events.
Download full-text PDF |
Source |
|---|---|
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2023.2226871 | DOI Listing |
Publication Analysis
Top Keywords
Similar Publications
Savoring Belief, Resilience, and Meaning in Life as Pathways to Happiness: A Sequential Mediation Analysis among Taiwanese University Students.
Behav Sci (Basel)
May 2024
Center for Teacher Education, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua 50007, Taiwan.
In recent decades, scholarly interest has grown in the psychological components of happiness. Savoring belief, or the capacity to attend to, appreciate, and enhance the positive experiences in one's life, along with resilience and meaning in life, have emerged as significant predictors of enhanced happiness among diverse populations. This research examined the interrelationships among savoring belief, resilience, meaning in life, and happiness.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSavoring life during pandemic: an online intervention to promote well-being in emerging adults.
BMC Psychol
July 2023
Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy.
Background: Savoring, that is the ability to create and increase positive emotions, represents a promising approach to enhance subjective well-being (SWB) in emerging adults. This controlled study aims to investigate the preliminary effects of a self-help e-savoring intervention on increasing savoring beliefs and strategies and SWB in times of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: Forty-nine emerging adult participants were recruited using the snowball sampling method.
Do savoring beliefs predict posttraumatic stress symptoms following stressful life events?
Anxiety Stress Coping
March 2024
Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Background And Objectives: Savoring beliefs refer to people's beliefs about their ability to generate, increase, and prolong enjoyment from positive experiences. The role of these beliefs in affecting responses to negative events is largely unexplored. This study aimed to increase knowledge about the role of savoring beliefs in symptoms of posttraumatic stress (PTS) following negative life events and the incremental role of these beliefs beyond the impact of worry, depressive rumination, and neuroticism.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Conditional Effects of Savoring on the Relationship between Minority Stress and Alcohol Misuse in an LGBTQIA + Sample.
Subst Use Misuse
July 2023
Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, USA.
: Alcohol-related difficulties are a significant public health concern in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersex, asexual, and people with other sexual orientations and forms of gender identity (LGBTQIA+) communities. Considering these concerns, there is a strong push to develop affirming and strength-based prevention efforts. Unfortunately, such efforts are undermined by the lack of protective LGBTQIA + models for alcohol misuse.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEffects of mindfulness on stress, life satisfaction, and savoring beliefs among Hong Kong Chinese adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Front Psychol
May 2023
The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Adolescents all over the world are vulnerable in facing developmental challenges. Recent studies have evidenced that the unexpected interruptions of school learning during the COVID-19 pandemic have raised concerns about the well-being of adolescents. This present study sought to investigate the relationship between mindfulness, stress, savoring beliefs, and satisfaction of life among adolescents in Hong Kong during COVID-19.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWant AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?
Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!