Running head : BI - WEEKLY BEAUTY LOGS 1 Engagement with Beauty and Depressive Symptoms
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Successful positive psychology counseling for increasing well-being and decreasing depression have often focused on clients reflecting about their experiences of forgiveness, gratitude, or hope. Would reflecting on experiences of beauty also decrease depressive symptoms? A quasiexperimental group logged biweekly reflections on natural, artistic, and moral beauty for 10 weeks; two comparison groups did not. Although the quasi-experimental group significantly gained in engagement with beauty, no group changed in level of depressive symptoms.
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