Cognitive reappraisal is an antecedent-focused emotion regulation strategy that involves changing the emotional impact of a situation by changing thoughts about it. Expressive suppression is a response-focused emotion regulation strategy that involves inhibiting ongoing behavioral response to an emotional situation. Reappraisal is generally an effective strategy related to more positive experie...

This study examines the relationship between anhedonia and the trait dimensions of positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA) in schizophrenia. The relationship between poor social functioning in schizophrenia and these individual differences in affectivity is also examined. Schizophrenia outpatients (n = 37) and normal controls (n = 15) were assessed at a baseline evaluation and again appro...

Research on emotions and several happiness scales suggest that positive and negative affect are strongly inversely correlated. However, work on subjective well-being indicates that over time, positive and negative affect are independent across persons. In order to reconcile this inconsistency, two dimensions are proposed for personal affective structure: the frequency of positive versus negativ...