Emotional Nuance: Examining Positive Emotional Granularity and Well-Being
The focus of this review is on positive emotional granularity. Emotional granularity is the level of specificity that characterizes verbal representations of an affective experience. Although there has been research on negative emotional granularity, relatively less attention has been given to the s...
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| description | The focus of this review is on positive emotional granularity. Emotional granularity is the level of specificity that characterizes verbal representations of an affective experience. Although there has been research on negative emotional granularity, relatively less attention has been given to the study of positive emotional granularity. Positive emotions are theorized to motivate an individual to “broaden and build” one’s scope of cognition, attention, and behavior. Distinct positive emotion concepts may provide individuals with more informational value than that provided by global mood. Indeed, individuals who are higher in positive emotional granularity report being better at coping with stressful experiences. In this review, we discuss growing research on positive emotional granularity and well-being. Issues of measurement, interventions, and considerations for future lines of research are discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8aafd8214cc04bb7994820254b266c912022-12-21T17:25:07ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782022-02-011310.3389/fpsyg.2022.715966715966Emotional Nuance: Examining Positive Emotional Granularity and Well-BeingTse Yen TanLouise WachsmuthMichele M. TugadeThe focus of this review is on positive emotional granularity. Emotional granularity is the level of specificity that characterizes verbal representations of an affective experience. Although there has been research on negative emotional granularity, relatively less attention has been given to the study of positive emotional granularity. Positive emotions are theorized to motivate an individual to “broaden and build” one’s scope of cognition, attention, and behavior. Distinct positive emotion concepts may provide individuals with more informational value than that provided by global mood. Indeed, individuals who are higher in positive emotional granularity report being better at coping with stressful experiences. In this review, we discuss growing research on positive emotional granularity and well-being. Issues of measurement, interventions, and considerations for future lines of research are discussed.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.715966/fullemotionpositive emotiongranularitywell-beingemotion differentiation |
| spellingShingle | Tse Yen Tan Louise Wachsmuth Michele M. Tugade Emotional Nuance: Examining Positive Emotional Granularity and Well-Being Frontiers in Psychology emotion positive emotion granularity well-being emotion differentiation |
| title | Emotional Nuance: Examining Positive Emotional Granularity and Well-Being |
| title_full | Emotional Nuance: Examining Positive Emotional Granularity and Well-Being |
| title_fullStr | Emotional Nuance: Examining Positive Emotional Granularity and Well-Being |
| title_full_unstemmed | Emotional Nuance: Examining Positive Emotional Granularity and Well-Being |
| title_short | Emotional Nuance: Examining Positive Emotional Granularity and Well-Being |
| title_sort | emotional nuance examining positive emotional granularity and well being |
| topic | emotion positive emotion granularity well-being emotion differentiation |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.715966/full |
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