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Everything about Positive affectivity
Psychological capability to respond positively
Positive affectivity (PA) is a human characteristic that describes how much people experience positive affects ; and as a consequence how they interact with others and with their surroundings. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Positive affectivityA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: How do different types and landscape attributes of urban parks affect visitors' positive emotions?Influential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The optimistic childThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales.Cited 31,862 times
- Go sideways: Negative affectivityA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Dispositional affectA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales.
The Benefits of Frequent Positive Affect: Does Happiness Lead to Success?
Negative affectivity: The disposition to experience aversive emotional states.
The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS): Construct validity, measurement properties and normative data in a large non‐clinical sample
🆕 Influential since 2022
How do different types and landscape attributes of urban parks affect visitors' positive emotions?
Fostering Employees’ Voluntary Green Behavior: The Role of Environmentally Specific Servant Leadership, Positive Affectivity, and Workplace Anxiety
Worry's Clout: Concern, not positive affectivity, drives climate activism
Affectivity in danish patients with emotional disorders: assessing the validity of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS)
How and when supervisors’ challenge appraisals impact employee bottom-line mentality? The roles of supervisor duty orientation and employee positive affectivity
📚 Books worth reading
The optimistic childMartin Elias Pete Seligman · 1995
Emotional Processing Deficits and HappinessLinden R. R. Timoney, Mark D. Holder · 2013
Positive NeuroscienceMartin Elias Pete Seligman · 2016
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