The case for positive emotions in the stress process

By S. Folkman. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 2008

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Social Psychology

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Does Infant Happiness Forecast Adult Life Satisfaction? Examining Subjective Well-Being in the First Quarter Century of Life (2015, background): “For example, by the time people reach adulthood, they may have reframed negative events experienced earlier in life, such that they no longer impact adult well-being (cf. Folkman 2008).”
Eco-Anxiety and Environmental Education (2020, background): “Drawing from classic coping theorists Folkman and Lazarus [237,238], Ojala efforts to combine both problem-focused coping and emotion-focused coping into such coping, which emphasizes the need to maintain a sense of meaning in life.”
Resilience: Promoting Well-Being Through Recovery, Sustainability, and Growth (2010, background): “There are examples of growth in meaning making among cancer survivors, increases in resilience postcrisis in individuals in New York City after September 11, and benefit finding after natural disasters (Folkman, 2008; Helgeson, Reynolds, & Tomich, 2006).”
Vigor as a Positive Affect at Work: Conceptualizing Vigor, Its Relations with Related Constructs, and Its Antecedents and Consequences (2011, background): “Each of the unidirectional effects noted below could be mediated and/or moderated by other variables, including cognitive reappraisal and self-regulatory processes (Elfenbein, 2007), coping strategies (Folkman, 2008), and physiological processes accompanying experienced vigor.”
The job demands–resources model and counterproductive work behaviour: The role of job-related affect (2011, background): “However, with the emerging positive psychology movement (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000), increasing attention is being paid to positive emotions (Folkman, 2008; Fredrickson, 1998), so that there is now evidence (Pressman & Cohen, 2005; Steptoe, Gibson, Hamer, & Wardle, 2007) that they play a…”
Cognitive appraisal as a mediator in the relationship between stress and burnout (2013, background): “In contrast, the challenge appraisal tends to be accompanied by positive emotions such as excitement, eagerness and confidence (Folkman, 2008).”
Positive affectivity predicts successful and unsuccessful adaptation to stress (2013, positive): “…not directly determined by work stress but rather indirectly via their positive affectivity (see Footnote 1); this supports previous work, as positive affect has been found to restore psychological resources and enhance well-being in the face of stress (Folkman 1997, 2008; Fredrickson et al. 2003).”
Well-being and personality: Facet-level analyses (2011, background): “In addition, these emotions have a restorative function, sustaining coping when situations are not favorably resolved (Folkman, 2008).”
Does meaning‐making help during organizational change? Development and validation of a new scale (2009, background): “…as a coping process: “(meaning-focused coping) is appraisal-based coping in which the person draws on his or her beliefs (e.g. religious or spiritual), values and existential goals (e.g. purpose in life) to motivate and sustain coping and well-being during a difficult time” (Folkman, 2008, p. 7).”
How do children cope with global climate change? Coping strategies, engagement, and well-being (2012, positive): “Trust and optimism need not be antithetical to critical thinking, but rather can help children to take in facts about climate change and discuss ethical issues in a constructive way (for related arguments see Folkman, 2008).”