Savoring Beliefs Inventory (SBI): A scale for measuring beliefs about savouring

By F. Bryant. 2003

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Vacation (after-) effects on employee health and well-being, and the role of vacation activities, experiences and sleep (2012, methodology): “The four questions regarding savoring during vacation were adapted from the ‘‘Savoring Beliefs Inventory’’ (Bryant 2003) and also adjusted to the vacation context.”
Affect Recall Bias: Being Resilient by Distorting Reality (2020, background): “2019a, b, c), which may arguably reflect the inability of these individuals to recall positive experiences and upregulate positive emotions (Bryant 2003).”
Event self-importance, event rehearsal, and the fading affect bias in autobiographical memory (2006, methodology): “For example, Bryant (1989, 2003) contends that people can use their cognitive resources to amplify and sustain (i.e., savor) positive moments in their lives.”
Does savoring increase happiness? A daily diary study (2012, background): “…states (see Folkman & Lazarus, 1988; Quittner, Glueckauf, & Jackson, 1990), the occurrence of positive events might evoke certain savoring efforts, which in turn might lead to a sense of greater happiness (Bryant, 1989, 2003; Bryant & Veroff, 2007; Quoidbach, Berry, Hansenne, & Mikolajcza, 2010).”
Positive living: A pilot study of group positive psychotherapy for people with schizophrenia (2012, neutral): “The savoring beliefs inventory (SBI) (Bryant, 2003) was used to measure the capacity to savor positive experiences and includes three subscales: reminiscing about past positive experiences, savoring positive experiences in the present, and anticipating upcoming positive experiences.”
Open Hearts Build Lives: Positive Emotions, Induced Through Loving-Kindness Meditation, Build Consequential Personal Resources (2008, background): “Savoring Beliefs Inventory: The Savoring Beliefs Inventory (Bryant, 2003) assesses one’s tendency to enjoy pleasant experiences in the moment (savoring the present), pleasurably anticipate them beforehand (savoring the future), and pleasurably recall them afterward (savoring the past).”
Measuring Individual Differences in Emotion Regulation: The Emotion Regulation Profile-Revised (ERP-R) (2011, background): “The ability to savour is positively correlated with optimism, internal locus of control, self-control behaviours, life satisfaction, and selfesteem as well as negatively correlated with hopelessness and depression (Bryant, 2003).”
Hedonic Adaptation to Positive and Negative Experiences (2010, background): “Furthermore, those individuals who tend to savor and reminisce about the past — for example, summing up happy times, rekindling joy from happy memories — are best able to buff er stress (Bryant, 2003 ).”
Using the Past to Enhance the Present: Boosting Happiness Through Positive Reminiscence (2005, background): “Consciously attending to the specific aspects of an ongoing positive experience one finds pleasurable would facilitate active memory-building, a primary means through which people strive to capture the joy of happy moments (Bryant, 2003).”
Results of a Study to Increase Savoring the Moment: Differential Impact on Positive and Negative Outcomes (2012, background): “For example, the general construct of savoring has been positively associated with present happiness, percent of time happy, extraversion, optimism, and self-esteem and has been negatively associated with depression, neuroticism, and hopelessness (Bryant 2003).”
Understanding the Processes that Regulate Positive Emotional Experience: Unsolved Problems and Future Directions for Theory and Research on Savoring (2011, background): “Savoring involves the self-regulation of positive feelings, most typically generating, maintaining, or enhancing positive affect by attending to positive experiences from the past, present, or future (Bryant, 1989, 2003; Bryant, Ericksen, & DeHoek, 2008; Bryant & Veroff, 2007).”