Positive activities as protective factors against mental health conditions.
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Positive activities as protective factors against mental health conditions.
Applying Nolen-Hoeksema and Watkins's (2011) transdiagnostic risk factor heuristic to our work on positive activities (i.e., practices that characterize naturally happy people, like expressing gratitude and practicing generosity), we propose that such activities may serve as protective factors that mitigate proximal risk factors both directly and by intervening with the mechanisms that give ris...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Abnormal Psychology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1939-1846,0021-843X
DOI: 10.1037/a0034709