The influence of fear of happiness beliefs on responses to the satisfaction with life scale

By Mohsen Joshanloo. 2013

153 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/17f7321857532cd90307577172f51eacf47a1b01

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In Applied Psychology

1. Paul Gilbert
2. Dan Weijers
3. Mohsen Joshanloo

In Social Psychology

1. Dan Weijers
2. Paul Gilbert
3. Tasuku Igarashi
4. Mohsen Joshanloo
5. K. Neff
6. C. Irons
7. Kirsten McEwan
8. V. Huta

Citations in the corpus

• Cross-Cultural Validation of Fear of Happiness Scale Across 14 National Groups (2014, methodology): “In the Islamic perspective, superficial or worldly happiness may be an indicator of distance from God (Joshanloo, 2013).”
• Aversion to Happiness Across Cultures: A Review of Where and Why People are Averse to Happiness (2014, background): “…the more cheerful and happy I am, the more I should expect bad things to occur in my life”, “Disasters often follow good fortune”, “Having lots of joy and fun causes bad things to happen”, and “Excessive joy has some bad consequences” (Joshanloo, et al., forthcoming; Joshanloo, 2013b, p. 648).”
• The origins and nature of compassion focused therapy. (2014, background): “Some people, however, are frightened of positive feeling because they feel that if they are happy or something good happens to them, then something bad is bound to happen afterwards or as a result (Gilbert et al. , 2012; Joshanloo, 2013).”