Feeling safe and content: A specific affect regulation system? Relationship to depression, anxiety, stress, and self-criticism

By Paul Gilbert, Kirsten McEwan, R. Mitra, L. Franks, A. Richter, Helen Rockliff. 2008

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Self-Compassion, Self-Esteem, and Well-Being (2011, background): “…to represent an evaluation of superiority ⁄ inferiority that helps to establish social rank stability and is related to alerting, energizing impulses and dopamine activation (Gilbert et al., 2008; Longe et al., 2009; Rockcliff, Gilbert, McEwan, Lightman, & Glover, 2008; Rockliff et al., submitted).”
Joy and Calm: How an Evolutionary Functional Model of Affect Regulation Informs Positive Emotions in Nature (2016, methodology): “The three circle model also indicates two types of positive affect—drive and/ or contentment (Gilbert et al. 2008; Gilbert 2014).”
An Evolutionary Approach to Emotion in Mental Health With a Focus on Affiliative Emotions (2015, background): “Gilbert et al. (2008) showed that feelings of (a) activation-excitement, (b) relaxation, and (c) feeling safe and contented can be psychometrically separated, and that it was the feeling safe/content factor that was the best predictor of depressed symptoms in students.”
The Structure of Human Prosociality (2016, methodology): “To assess affective disposition, participants of the first sample completed the Adult Temperament Questionnaire (Rothbart, Ahadi, & Evans, 2000), the Short Affect Intensity Scale (SAIS; Geuens & De Pelsmacker, 2002), the Positive Affect Negative Affect Scale (Krohne, Egloff, Kohlmann, & Tausch, 1996”