Theory/Analysis Mismatch: Comment on Fredrickson and Joiner鈥檚 (2002) Test of the Broaden-and-Build Theory of Positive Emotions
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- 作者：Carol Nickerson
- 关键词：across ; persons ; coping skills ; emotional well ; being ; idiographic ; interindividual ; intraindividual ; methodology ; negative affect ; nomothetic ; positive affect ; positive psychology ; resilience ; well ; being ; within ; person
- 刊名：Journal of Happiness Studies
- 出版时间：December, 2007
- 出版年：2007
- 期刊代码：127_1389-4978
- 类别：soc
- 卷：8
- 期：4
- 页码：537-561
- 数据来源：sp
摘要
Fredrickson’s (1998, ‘What good are positive emotions?’, Review of General Psychology 2, pp. 300–319; 2001, ‘The role of positive emotions in positive psychology: The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions’, American Psychologist 56, pp. 218–226) broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions posits that positive emotions improve coping skills and that improved coping skills increase positive emotions, resulting in an upward spiral toward emotional well-being. Fredrickson and Joiner (2002, ‘Positive emotions trigger upward spirals toward emotional well-being’, Psychological Science 13, pp. 172–175) claimed that the results of their analyses supported the broaden-and-build theory but in fact their analyses did not test this theory. The broaden-and-build theory clearly describes a within-occasion across-persons psychological process; the analyses, however, tested a within-occasion across-persons theory.