Specificity of the Best Possible Self intervention for increasing optimism: Comparison with a gratitude intervention

The present study compared the effects of a one week best possible self intervention and a one week gratitude intervention on life satisfaction and optimism. We hypothesized that both interventions would lead to similar increases in life satisfaction, but that only the best possible self interventio...

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Autores principales:	Peters,Madelon L, Meevissen,Yvo M. C, Hanssen,Marjolein M
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Sociedad Chilena de Psicología Clínica 2013
Materias:	Best Possible Self intervention Gratitude intervention satisfaction with life optimism specificity
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0718-480820130001000092014-09-17Specificity of the Best Possible Self intervention for increasing optimism: Comparison with a gratitude interventionPeters,Madelon LMeevissen,Yvo M. CHanssen,Marjolein M Best Possible Self intervention Gratitude intervention satisfaction with life optimism specificity The present study compared the effects of a one week best possible self intervention and a one week gratitude intervention on life satisfaction and optimism. We hypothesized that both interventions would lead to similar increases in life satisfaction, but that only the best possible self intervention would increase optimism. The results partly confirmed the hypotheses: only the best possible self intervention led to increased optimism immediately after the intervention period, which further increased one week after completion of the intervention. However, the best possible self intervention was also more effective in increasing life satisfaction than the gratitude intervention. Whereas the increase in life satisfaction in the best possible self intervention was significantly different from the control intervention, this was not the case in the gratitude condition. We conclude that the best possible self intervention is an effective exercise if one aims to increase optimism.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Chilena de Psicología ClínicaTerapia psicológica v.31 n.1 20132013-04-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-48082013000100009en10.4067/S0718-48082013000100009
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spellingShingle	Best Possible Self intervention Gratitude intervention satisfaction with life optimism specificity Peters,Madelon L Meevissen,Yvo M. C Hanssen,Marjolein M Specificity of the Best Possible Self intervention for increasing optimism: Comparison with a gratitude intervention
description	The present study compared the effects of a one week best possible self intervention and a one week gratitude intervention on life satisfaction and optimism. We hypothesized that both interventions would lead to similar increases in life satisfaction, but that only the best possible self intervention would increase optimism. The results partly confirmed the hypotheses: only the best possible self intervention led to increased optimism immediately after the intervention period, which further increased one week after completion of the intervention. However, the best possible self intervention was also more effective in increasing life satisfaction than the gratitude intervention. Whereas the increase in life satisfaction in the best possible self intervention was significantly different from the control intervention, this was not the case in the gratitude condition. We conclude that the best possible self intervention is an effective exercise if one aims to increase optimism.
author	Peters,Madelon L Meevissen,Yvo M. C Hanssen,Marjolein M
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title	Specificity of the Best Possible Self intervention for increasing optimism: Comparison with a gratitude intervention
title_short	Specificity of the Best Possible Self intervention for increasing optimism: Comparison with a gratitude intervention
title_full	Specificity of the Best Possible Self intervention for increasing optimism: Comparison with a gratitude intervention
title_fullStr	Specificity of the Best Possible Self intervention for increasing optimism: Comparison with a gratitude intervention
title_full_unstemmed	Specificity of the Best Possible Self intervention for increasing optimism: Comparison with a gratitude intervention
title_sort	specificity of the best possible self intervention for increasing optimism: comparison with a gratitude intervention
publisher	Sociedad Chilena de Psicología Clínica
publishDate	2013
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Specificity of the Best Possible Self intervention for increasing optimism: Comparison with a gratitude intervention

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