Turning adversity to advantage: On the virtues of the coactivation of positive and negative emotions.

By Jeff T. Larsen, S. Hemenover, Catherine J. Norris, John T. Cacioppo. 2003

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Resilience and adaptation to stress in later life: Empirical perspectives and conceptual implications (2004, background): “" Needed, therefore, are studies that shed light on the complex ways in which positive and negative affects are interrelated in moments of stress (Larsen et al., 2003; Reich et al., 2003).”
Recycling and Ambivalence (2008, background): “Furthermore, positive emotions can help people face and bear their worry, turning it into constructive action instead of low psychological well-being or feelings of being powerless (Folkman & Moskowitz, 2000; Larsen et al., 2003; Ojala, 2005).”
Adolescents’ Worries about Environmental Risks: Subjective Well-being, Values, and Existential Dimensions (2005, background): “Researchers focusing on stress and coping have begun to argue that positive and negative emotions are not mutually exclusive (Folkman & Moskowitz 2000; Larsen et al. 2003).”
Happiness in the Face of Adversity: Reformulating the Dynamic and Modular Bases of Subjective Well-Being (2005, background): “Under severe stress, the cofunctioning of positive and negative affect may be vital for reaching a properly balanced resolution (J. T. Larsen et al., 2003).”
The Hedonic Character of Nostalgia: An Integrative Data Analysis (2020, methodology): “activation model of health similarly proposes that ambivalent affect facilitates coping with stressful life events (Larsen et al., 2003).”
On the Consumption of Negative Feelings (2007, background): “Based on Larsen et al.’s (2005) recent evaluative space grid, an online affect grid (OAG) was presented to participants so that they could continuously report both affective states with a single measure.”
Understanding The Dual Nature of Ambivalence: Why and When Ambivalence Leads to Good and Bad Outcomes (2017, unknown): “…to make meaning of negative events in their lives, thus allowing them to become more resilient because they can confront and process those events (Larsen et al., 2003; Adler and Hershfield, 2012) but future research is needed to directly test whether meaning-making is a mediating link between…”