A brief psychological intervention to protect subjective well-being in a community sample

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• 作者：Christopher J. Armitage
• 关键词：Brief intervention ; Subjective well ; being ; Self ; affirmation
• 刊名：Quality of Life Research
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：February 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：25
• 期：2
• 页码：385-391
• 全文大小：450 KB
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• 作者单位：Christopher J. Armitage (1)
  
  1. Manchester Centre for Health Psychology, School of Psychological Sciences, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, Coupland Street, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
  
• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Medicine & Public Health
  Quality of Life Research
  Sociology
  Public Health
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-2649

文摘

Purpose Governments are using measures of subjective well-being in preference to more objective measures of social progress (e.g., gross domestic product), yet interventions to address well-being are often costly. The present study tests the ability of a brief psychological intervention based on self-affirmation theory (Steele in Advances in experimental social psychology, Academic Press, New York, 1988) to protect subjective well-being among a community sample likely to have diminished well-being (i.e., women aged 46 years and older, Inglehart in Int J Comp Sociol 43: 391–408, 2002. doi: 10.1177/002071520204300309).