Trial reportEmotion (Washington, D.C.)2022
The thrill of victory: Savoring positive affect, psychophysiological reward processing, and symptoms of depression.
Trial report in Emotion (Washington, D.C.), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Effectiveness of savoring interventions: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2026Pooled it
- Integrating Immersive Virtual Reality With Savoring to Promote the Well-Being of Patients With Chronic Respiratory Diseases: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Trial
- Reducing contrast avoidance in GAD by savoring positive emotions: Outcome and mediation in a randomized controlled trial.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2023Trial
- Suicide attempt history is associated with blunted neural reward responsiveness after accounting for a history of suicidal ideation and preparatory behaviors.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Emotional distress in the Chinese academic context: an integrative mixed-methods study of gratitude, savoring, and cognitive reappraisal.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- A Polish-language version of the Savoring Beliefs Inventory.Current issues in personality psychology · 2026Article
- Reward positivity and affective functioning in early childhood: evidence from temporospatial principal components analysis.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Longitudinal associations between sense of belonging, imposter syndrome, and first-year college students' mental health.Journal of American college health : J of ACH · 2025Article
- Neural reward responsiveness and daily positive affect functioning in adolescent girls.International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology · 2024Article
- Exploring neural mechanisms of gender differences in bodily emotion recognition: a time-frequency analysis and network analysis study.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Savoring life during pandemic: an online intervention to promote well-being in emerging adults.BMC psychology · 2023Article
- Intervening on Social Comparisons on Social Media: Electronic Daily Diary Pilot Study.JMIR mental health · 2023Article
- Disentangling the Effects of Mindfulness, Savoring, and Depressive Symptoms among Emerging Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Event-related potential studies of emotion regulation: A review of recent progress and future directions.International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology · 2022Review
- Predicting Negative and Positive Affect During COVID-19: A Daily Diary Study in Youths.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2021Article
- Current Progress and Future Directions for Theory and Research on Savoring.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
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Abstract
Depression is characterized by a pattern of maladaptive emotion regulation. Recently, researchers have begun to focus on associations between depression and two positive affect regulation strategies: savoring and dampening. Savoring, or upregulation of positive affect, is positively associated with well-being and negatively associated with depression, whereas dampening, or downregulation of positive affect, is positively associated with depression, anhedonia, and negative affect. To date, no research has examined whether savoring or dampening can affect neurophysiological reactivity to reward, which previous research has shown is associated with symptoms of depression. Here, we examined associations between psychophysiological reward processing-primarily captured by the Reward Positivity (RewP), an event-related potential (ERP) deflection elicited by feedback indicating reward (vs. nonreward)-positive affect regulation strategies, and symptoms of depression. One hundred undergraduates completed questionnaires assessing affect, emotion regulation, and depressive symptoms and completed a computerized guessing task, once before and again after being randomly assigned to emotion-regulation strategy conditions. Results indicate that (a) the relationship between RewP amplitude and depressive symptoms may, in part, depend upon positive affect regulation strategies and (b) the RewP elicited by reward appears sensitive to a savoring intervention. These findings suggest that mitigating depressive symptoms in emerging adults may depend on both top-down (i.e., savoring) and bottom-up (i.e., RewP) forms of positive affect regulation and have important implications for clinical prevention and intervention efforts for depressive symptoms and disorder. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
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