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| quote: | Originally posted by Mr. Pink
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gavin, pics or stfu!
and mario, lemme get a copy of that paper!!!!  |
just finished the intro, still gotta do the method section, and a bunch of other parts... this is the papers i summerized when doing my itroduction. its just the abstract or the "gist" of it
1-| quote: | Externalization of problems as a component of narrative therapy has been well defined by such
authors as Epston and White, and Freedman and Combs. This study reflects the voices and
experiences of 17 participants who engaged in an innovative externalization exercise combining
sculpture and journaling over a period of 4 weeks. In an attempt to better understand the
experience of the participants, the principal investigator also engaged in the exercise. Findings
indicated that the intervention helped participants express emotions, increased their awareness
of personal resources and agency, helped separate problems from self, decreased symptoms
and problem behaviors, and fostered a sense of empowerment. This study reveals the potential
usefulness of physically externalizing problems and interacting with them deliberately over time.
Such interventions may be useful components of narrative therapy or augmentations to brief
therapy. They may help reach populations who have limited access to therapy services or who
are reluctant to present for therapy. |
| quote: | In 6 studies, the authors tested whether the effect of mood on self-control success depends on a person’s
accessible goal. We propose that positive mood signals a person to adopt an accessible goal, whereas
negative mood signals a person to reject an accessible goal; therefore, if a self-improvement goal is
accessible, happy (vs. neutral or unhappy) people perform better on self-control tasks that further that
goal. Conversely, if a mood management goal is accessible, happy people abstain from self-control tasks
because the tasks are incompatible with this goal. This pattern receives consistent support across several
self-control tasks, including donating to charity, demonstrating physical endurance, seeking negative
feedback, and completing tests. |
| quote: | ABSTRACT. The aim of this investigation was to measure the impact of
the arts broadly construed on the quality of life. A randomly drawn
household sample of 315 adult residents of Prince George, British Columbia
served as the working data-set. Examining zero-order correlations, among
other things, it was found that playing a musical instrument a number of
times per year was positively associated with general health (r ¼ 0.37), while
singing alone a number of hours per week was negatively associated with
general health (r ¼ )0.19). The strongest positive associations with life
satisfaction are satisfaction obtained from gourmet cooking and embroidery,
needlepoint or cross-stitching, at r ¼ 0.39 and r ¼ 0.32, respectively.
The satisfaction obtained from gourmet cooking (r ¼ 0.35) and buying
works of art (r ¼ 0.32) were the most positive influences on happiness. The
strongest associations with the Index of Subjective Well-Being are the satisfaction
obtained from gourmet cooking (r ¼ 0.37) and the satisfaction
obtained from knitting or crocheting (r ¼ 0.34). Examining multivariate
relations, it was found that eight predictors combined to explain 59% of the
variance in life satisfaction scores, with self-esteem satisfaction (b ¼ 0.35)
and friendship satisfaction (b ¼ 0.27) most influential. Among the arts-related
predictors in the eight, singing alone was fairly influential and negative
(b ¼ )0.18), while the satisfaction obtained from reading to others
(b ¼ 0.08) and the Index of Arts as Self-Health Enhancers (b ¼ 0.11) were
somewhat less influential. When the arts-related predictors were combined
with a set of domain satisfaction predictors, total explanatory power was
increased by only 3 percentage points. Seven predictors could explain 58%
of the variance in satisfaction with the overall quality of life scores. Of the
arts-related predictors, only time spent going to non-art museums was significant
(b ¼ 0.07). Arts-related predictors did not increase explanatory
power at all beyond that obtained from domain satisfaction variables alone.
Eight predictors explained 42% of the variance in happiness scores, with the
most influential predictors including satisfaction with self-esteem (b ¼ 0.37)
and financial security (b ¼ 0.21), followed by the Index of Arts as Self-
Developing Activities (b ¼ 0.18). Arts-related predictors added 3 percentage
points of explanatory power to that obtained from domain satisfaction..... |
there are 5 of them, those are the only ones the pdf's would allow me to copy paste.
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| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
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