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1. www.psychologytoday.com › us › blogThe Social Psychology of Cheerfulness

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   May 24, 2022 · For Calvinists, cheerfulness served as a visual clue of engagement in a community of believers, while retaining its association with hospitality and goodwill. And it became “a policing tool,” to...

2. academic.oup.com › edited-volume › 28153Positive Affectivity: The Disposition to Experience Positive ...

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   Positive affectivity is a trait that reflects stable individual differences in positive emotional experience; high levels of the trait are marked by frequent feelings of cheerfulness, enthusiasm, and energy.

3. link.springer.com › referenceworkentry › 10Cheerfulness - SpringerLink

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   Definition. Cheerfulness denotes an individual’s actual (as a mood state) or habitual (as a trait or temperament) disposition for amusement and laughter including seeing the bright side of life and taking adversity less seriously.

   • Author: Willibald Ruch

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4. www.frontiersin.org › journals › psychologyEditorial: Humor and Laughter, Playfulness and Cheerfulness ...

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   Apr 8, 2019 · Playfulness is considered the basis of humor (a play with ideas), but not all play is humorous. Cheerfulness is considered the temperamental basis of good humor, a disposition for laughter and for keeping humor in face of adversity but it mostly overlaps with the socio-affective component of humor.

5. www.frontiersin.org › journals › psychologyThe Future of Technology in Positive Psychology ...

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   Jun 17, 2018 · Some reliable factors associated with well-being include; income, physical health, marriage, optimism, and social support (e.g., Diener et al., 2002). Technological advances will likely support, advance, and in some cases provide entirely new tools for well-being measurement and intervention.

6. www.cambridge.org › core › booksChapter 2 - The Science of Wellbeing and Positive Psychology

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   Table 2.1 summarizes some key examples of contemporary wellbeing constructs in wellbeing science and positive psychology. Such constructs underpin the emerging health and wellbeing outcome measurement in health and human services.

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   Is cheerfulness a positive adversity?

   • Here positive affect is induced by a positive situation. In the “cheerful composure pathway” (akin to resilience), trait cheerfulness is an antagonist to the effects of adversity on mood level and emotion, a part of a psychological immune system that helps as a puffer against adversity.

   Cheerfulness | SpringerLink

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   Is cheerfulness a trait or a state?

   • Ruch, Köhler and van Thriel (1996, 1997) distinguished between trait cheerfulness (as affect-based temperament presumably with a genetic basis) and state cheerfulness (as a transient mood) and suggested that both are needed to account for individuals’ readiness for positive emotions and laughter.

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   Does Trait Cheerfulness predict life satisfaction?

   • Trait cheerfulness predicts life satisfaction even when the effects of the three orientations to happiness are being controlled for, and it predicts a variety of positive outcomes in research as diverse as education, mental health, and perceived physical health.

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   How does a cheerful person contribute to quality of life?

   • Trait cheerfulness contributes to quality of life or overall well-being by enabling individuals to positive emotions and maintaining them in face of adversity, and longer lasting states of cheerfulness may be seen as element of well-being.

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   Does a cheerful person have a sense of humor?

   • The robustness of cheerful mood found among trait cheerful individuals suggests that trait cheerfulness and the “sense of humor” overlap conceptually. Indeed, cheerfulness as trait and state explains individual differences in readiness for amusement and predicts affect-based humor behavior like smile and laughter.

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   Does cheerfulness predict smiling and laughter?

   • Different to a recent study ( Ruch et al., 2018) the state version was utilized. Congruent with the assumption that cheerfulness predicts smiling and laughter, Auerbach shows that trait cheerful patients showed more genuine smiling and laughter during a hospital clown intervention than low trait cheerful individual do.

   Frontiers | Editorial: Humor and Laughter, Playfulness and Cheerfulness

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8. positivepsychology.com › happinessThe Science of Happiness in Positive Psychology 101

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   Jun 27, 2023 · The science of happiness theory, developed within positive psychology, explores what contributes to a fulfilling life by studying factors that influence wellbeing, such as positive emotions, life satisfaction, and resilience.