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This book is about savoring life-the capacity to attend to the
joys, pleasures, and other positive feelings that we experience in
our lives. The authors enhance our understanding of what savoring
is and the conditions under which it occurs. Savoring provides a
new theoretical model for conceptualizing and understanding the
psychology of enjoyment and the processes through which people
manage positive emotions. The authors review their quantitative
research on savoring, as well as the research of others, and
provide measurement instruments with scoring instructions for
assessing and studying savoring. Authors Bryant and Veroff outline
the necessary preconditions that must exist for savoring to occur
and distinguish savoring from related concepts such as coping,
pleasure, positive affect, emotional intelligence, flow, and
meditation. The book's lifespan perspective includes a conceptual
analysis of the role of time in savoring. Savoring is also
considered in relation to human concerns, such as love, friendship,
physical and mental health, creativity, and spirituality.
Strategies and hands-on exercises that people can use to enhance
savoring in their lives are provided, along with a review of
factors that enhance savoring. Savoring is intended for
researchers, students, and practitioners interested in positive
psychology from the fields of social, clinical, health, and
personality psychology and related disciplines. The book may serve
as a supplemental text in courses on positive psychology, emotion
and motivation, and other related topics. The chapters on enhancing
savoring will be especially attractive to clinicians and counselors
interested in intervention strategies for positive psychological
adjustment.
This book is about savoring life-- the capacity to attend to the
joys, pleasures, and other positive feelings that we experience in
our lives. The authors enhance our understanding of what savoring
is and the conditions under which it occurs. "Savoring" provides a
new theoretical model for conceptualizing and understanding the
psychology of enjoyment and the processes through which people
manage positive emotions. The authors review their quantitative
research on savoring, as well as the research of others, and
provide measurement instruments with scoring instructions for
assessing and studying savoring.
Authors Bryant and Veroff outline the necessary preconditions that
must exist for savoring to occur and distinguish savoring from
related concepts such as coping, pleasure, positive affect,
emotional intelligence, flow, and meditation. The book' s lifespan
perspective includes a conceptual analysis of the role of time in
savoring. Savoring is also considered in relation to human
concerns, such as love, friendship, physical and mental health,
creativity, and spirituality. Strategies and hands-on exercises
that people can use to enhance savoring in their lives are
provided, along with a review of factors that enhance savoring.
"Savoring" is intended for researchers, students, and practitioners
interested in positive psychology from the fields of social,
clinical, health, and personality psychology and related
disciplines. The book may serve as a supplemental text in courses
on positive psychology, emotion and motivation, and other related
topics. The chapters on enhancing savoring will be especially
attractive to clinicians and counselorsinterested in intervention
strategies for positive psychological adjustment.
Researchers have studied marriage for decades, but how is the
transition to married life actually experienced by the couples
involved? From an insider's perspective, Thrice Told Tales examines
married couples' own stories of their relationship. A
representative sample of 199 African-American and 177 White married
couples were asked to tell the story of their relationship. It
provides accounts of courtships, weddings, honeymoons, their
adjustment in the early years, and hopes for the future. These
stories were first collected a few months after their weddings, and
again in the third and seventh years of their marriages. What
features of their relationship do the couples highlight as central
in the early years? How do their stories change over time? What can
we learn about couples' marital well-being by analyzing their
stories? How do the stories of men and women, and of White and
African-American couples differ? These questions were
systematically addressed using extensive coding schemes and
comprehensive quantitative analyses. Details of the coding system
and procedures are included, making this volume a useful reference
for any researcher contemplating analysis of narrative data.
However, the key points are also explained in simple prose and
illustrated with quotes from the couples' own stories, making the
book accessible to anyone with an interest in how young couples
experience married life today.
What factors influence the relationship of a newly married
couple? Do these factors change as the marriage matures? The
authors of this book examine the determinants of marital
instability in the early years of marriage. Conclusions are based
on the results of a survey of 199 black couples and 174 white
couples throughout the first four years of marriage. Findings focus
on attitudes, perceptions, and feelings spouses have for each other
and the manner in which they interact. Some of the topics discussed
in the survey include: length of courtship, educational
differences, religion, and family involvement. The findings show
what effect these and other factors have on a marriage.
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