Chancellor et al., 2015: Recalling positive events through writing increased happiness and work efficiency among Japenese employees
Reference:
Chancellor, J., Layous, K., & Lyubomirsky, S. (2015). Recalling positive events at work makes employees feel happier, move more, but interact less: A 6-week randomized controlled intervention at a Japanese workplace. Journal of Happiness Studies, 16(4), 871-887.
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Employees at a Japanese engineering firm spent 10 minutes per week for 6 weeks writing about three things that went well at work during the previous week and their feelings about what went well. As compared to control participants who outlined work tasks, participants in the treatment condition reported greater happiness and moved more at work but, especially if they put more effort into the treatment task, interacted less with others.
Psychological Process:
What Desired Meaning is At Stake?
What is the Person Trying to Understand?
Selves (My Own and Others')Approach to Desired Meaning
What about it?
Changing beliefs about emotions, states, and the valence of the self-conceptHow?
Psychological Question Addressed
Do I think and feel positively about myself?Do I think and feel positively about myself?Psychological Question Addressed
Do I think and feel positively about myself?Psychological Process 2:
Psychological Process 3:
Social Area:
Health; Well-being
Intervention Technique:
Active reflection, on a positive aspect of self