objective: experiencing ‎pleasant events during daily life ‎has a significant positive role in ‎the personal mental health and ‎acts as a keystone for “behavioral ‎activation” (ba) interventions. ‎there are serious differences in ‎the pleasant event schedules in ‎different cultures and countries. ‎we aimed to develop a persian ‎checklist of pleasant events ‎‎(pcpe) to provide and validate a ‎cu...

Three groups of 10 Ss, (depressed, psychiatric controls, and normal controls) were used. The 6s rated their moods and also indicated the number of "pleasant" activities engaged in each day over a period of 30 days. A significant association between mood and pleasant activities was found. There were large individual differences in regard to the magnitude of the correlation between mood and activ...

This study examined the antecedents and consequences of pleasant affective state at work, relying on Weiss and Cropanzano’s (1996) Affective Events Theory. In the tested framework, positive and negative work events were assessed comprehensively under five broad categories (i.e., task-relevant events, relations with supervisor, relations with coworkers, relations with subordinates, and organizat...

This study examined an activity restriction/pleasurable activities mismatch model for psychosocial and health-related outcomes. A total of 108 spousal caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) were assessed for their experience of social and recreational activities over the past month as well as their perception of how restricted they were for engaging in social and recreational acti...

OBJECTIVE Experiencing ‎pleasant events during daily life ‎has a significant positive role in ‎the personal mental health and ‎acts as a keystone for "behavioral ‎activation" (BA) interventions. ‎There are serious differences in ‎the pleasant event schedules in ‎different cultures and countries. ‎We aimed to develop a Persian ‎checklist of pleasant events ‎‎(PCPE) to provide and validate a ‎cul...

The Pleasant Events Schedule-AD (PES-AD) has been described as a useful tool for identifying pleasant activities for Alzheimer's disease patients. The current investigation provides psychometric data on the PES-AD, introduces a shortened, 20-item version, and examines the relationship between pleasant events, cognitive functioning, and depression. Both versions of PES-AD had good reliability an...

Recent research has established that schizophrenia patients have difficulties envisioning the future. Although mental simulations have a clear adaptive value, little is known about the function of simulating future episodes, particularly emotional events. The aim of this study was to explore the relationships between apathy and future projection in schizophrenia. Twenty-five schizophrenia patie...