Testing Strengths-Based Interventions: A Preliminary Study on the Effectiveness of a Program Targeting Curiosity, Gratitude, Hope, Humor, and Zest for Enhancing Life Satisfaction

By R. Proyer, Willibald F. Ruch, Claudia Buschor. 2013

230 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/50f3e194f418cc64b343227b68e25d3b35e8d5f0

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In Applied Psychology

1. D. V. Van Tongeren

In Clinical Psychology

1. C. Witvliet
2. D. V. Van Tongeren
3. Fallon J. Richie
4. L. R. Root Luna

In Social Psychology

1. C. Witvliet
2. D. V. Van Tongeren
3. Fallon J. Richie
4. L. R. Root Luna

Citations in the corpus

• Gratitude predicts hope and happiness: A two-study assessment of traits and states (2019, background): “We similarly assessed how much happiness participants experienced while thinking about the current hope at each time, using a single item similar to Proyer et al. (2013).”
• Character Strengths and Intellectual and Developmental Disability: A Strengths-Based Approach from Positive Psychology (2017, unknown): “…(Park et al., 2004) and found that the training of curiosity, gratitude, hope, humor, and zest led to increases in life satisfaction relative to a group that focused on character strengths that correlate lower with life satisfaction and relative to a control group (Proyer, Ruch, & Buschor, 2014).”