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Welbevinden: van bijzaak naar hoofdzaak?:Introductie van de positieve psychologie en deze bundel
Get PDFMeanings of ageing and old age: Discursive contexts, social attitudes and personal identities
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Zin in je verhaal
No full textMensen vertellen elkaar verhalen. Dat draagt bij aan hun zoektocht naar de zin van het leven. De manier waarop mensen dit doen, zegt iets over hun welbevinden en geestelijke gezondheid. Er komt steeds meer bewijs dat ‘narratieve interventies’ effectief zijn. Het ontwerpen van nieuwe narratieve interventies sluit goed aan bij ontwikkelingen in de zorg, waarbij de cliënt en patiënt centraal staan
The features of autobiographical memory roles: A multilevel approach
No full textPeople cannot remember everything that happened in their lifetime; they forget many past experiences. Instead, people are likely to recall autobiographical memories that are important to them. This thesis examined what features distinguish memories that serve specific roles from others with less pronounced roles, and help find these memories in a bigger pool of remembered past experiences. This thesis studied multiple memory roles and various characteristics that could describe them. I assumed that information from a single level cannot provide a complete look into memory role features. For this reason, this thesis focused on multivariate and multilevel ways of analyzing memory roles and their features.
Studies 1 and 2 investigated how the role of memory centrality is associated with memory characteristics, such as valence, intensity, recency, vividness, rehearsal, and individual characteristics, such as age, self-concept clarity, rumination, and reflection. Study 3 investigated how memory roles of self-continuity, social, and directive uses are related to memory valence and intensity. Specifically, we looked at concurring memory roles and compared their relationship to positive and negative valence with their relationship to neutral valence, and the intensity of positive and negative memories. Study 4 examined what roles memories of a lost loved one have in the specific context of bereavement. We examined how feelings of grief, personal growth postloss, and memory characteristics, such as valence, intensity, and recency, are related to the memory roles of reflection, rumination, socialization, death preparation, and intimacy maintenance.
The studies in this thesis showed that memories that have a role in people’s lives are more emotionally intense and are closer in time. While people favor more positive information, this tendency is associated with people’s age, the intensity of the memories, and the balance between positivity and negativity. However, the information regarding memories that have a role does not stop here. This thesis consistently demonstrated that memory characteristics are not uniform across people and people present with substantial variation. Various individual features were significantly related to memory roles: participant’s age, self-concept clarity, reflective self-focus, feelings of grief, and personal growth postloss.
This thesis examined the mechanisms behind recalling significant autobiographical memories. Importantly, this thesis introduced various characteristics that describe memory roles, and proposed that future research could consider information on memory and individual levels to fully appreciate the significant autobiographical memories
During my life so much has changed that it looks like a new world to me: A narrative perspective on identity formation in times of cultural change
Get PDFOlder individuals have witnessed a vast amount of cultural change during their lives. They are therefore living in a culture which differs radically from the one in which they grew up. Building on basic psychological processes of acculturation in migrants, this article develops a narrative theory on the dynamics of identity development in times of cultural change. Twenty-four individuals between 64 and 75 years, belonging to the “silent” generation and currently in their third age, were interviewed about cultural change. Content analysis of the narratives showed four themes: general remarks about cultural changes, expanding material opportunities, liberation of relationships, and increasing freedom of choice. Identifications with the past and with the present were found for each of these themes. Three ways of construing retirement, as extra time, enjoyment or liberation, were related to the identifications with past and present. The findings point out fundamental processes of identity development in a changing cultural contex
The Model for Sustainable Mental Health: Future Directions for Integrating Positive Psychology Into Mental Health Care
Get PDFThis position paper proposes a model for systematic integration of positive psychology interventions (PPIs) in mental healthcare. On the one hand, PPIs can contribute to the decrease of dysfunctional processes underlying mental illness. This evidence is at the core of the new domains of positive clinical psychology and positive psychiatry. On the other hand, a growing number of studies demonstrate that mental health is not merely the absence of mental illness. Mental wellbeing represents a related but separate dimension of mental health. Mental wellbeing reduces the risk of future incidence of mental illness and is highly valued by people receiving psychological treatment as an important aspect of personal and complete recovery and personal growth. This makes mental wellbeing a vital outcome of mental healthcare. PPIs can directly increase mental wellbeing. The model of sustainable mental health is presented integrating the science of positive psychology and mental wellbeing into mental healthcare. This heuristic model can guide both practitioners and researchers in developing, implementing, and evaluating a more balanced, both complaint- and strength-oriented, treatment approach. The role of gratitude interventions is discussed as an example of applying the model. Also, three potential modalities for implementing PPIs as positive psychotherapy in treatment are as: positive psychotherapy as primary treatment, as combinatorial treatment, and as intervention for personal recovery of people with severe or persistent mental disorder. Finally, we argue that longitudinal studies are needed to substantiate the model and the processes involved
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