Title:
Elevation and its relation to depression and Axis II functioning
Author:
Nicole Rebecca Amoyal
Committee Member:
Martin F. Sherman
Committee Member:
Heather Lyons
Committee Member:
Charles LoPresto
Committee Member:
Jeffrey Strain
Degree Granting Institution:
Loyola University Maryland--College of Arts and Sciences
Place:
Baltimore (Md.)
Publisher:
Loyola University Maryland
Date Created:
2010
Type of Resource:
text
Genre:
thesis
Language:
eng
Format:
application/pdf
Physical Form:
electronic
Digital Source:
reformatted digital
Abstract:
Positive psychology is the shift in perspective towards human strengths and away from traditional pathology focused research and practice in psychology. Recent research in the field has concentrated efforts towards understanding positive emotional experiences in relation to adaptive functioning. Elevation is one of these emotions that is said to be powerful and positive, and can be experienced by witnessing social moral acts (Haidt, 2000). While relatively little is known about this emotion, when compared to other negative emotions, certainly previous research provides support for the physiological (Haidt and Silvers, 2006), emotional (Haidt, 2001; Haidt, 2003) and prosocial behavior related to elevation (Freeman, Aquino, and McFerren, 2009; Landis, Sherman, Piedmont, Kirkhart, Rapp, and Bike, 2009; Schnall, Roper, and Fessler, 2010). This study was designed to investigate the emotion elevation in relation to personality disorders and depression in order to understand more about the habitual experience of elevation. The study was cross-sectional and correlational in design. Initial results indicated that elevation was negatively related to most personality disorders but positively associated with Schizotypal and Paranoid personality disorders when controlling for gender, age, and normal domains of personality. Suggestions for future research, clinical implications, and limitations are discussed.
Subject:
Emotions--Social aspects
Subject:
Emotions--Health aspects
Subject:
Aversion
Subject:
Positive psychology
Subject:
Elevation Scale (Haidt)
Subject:
Structured Clinical Interview DSM-IV AXis II Personality Disorders Questionnaire
Subject:
Disorders Questionnaire
Subject:
Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale
Subject:
Electronic books
Subject:
Electronic dissertations
Degree:
Master of Science
Level:
Master
Discipline:
Clinical Psychology
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Identifier:
AmoyalNR-10
