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In the current study, the author attempted to verify whether character strengths and personality disorders were closely related to well-being and depression, and whether the interaction between character strengths and personality disorders showed a significant effect on this relationship. The author analyzed data collected from 370 participants and found that character strengths were more closely related to well-being than depression. On the other hand, personality disorders were more closely related to depression, compared to character strengths. In interaction effect analysis, high level of character strengths cancelled out the negative effect of personality disorders on psychological well-being. On the contrary, high level of personality disorders could not cancel out the positive effect of character strengths on depression. Finally, the author discussed this study's contributions to the integrative understanding of the positive aspects and negative aspects of human and deduced the clinical implications. In addition, the author discussed the limitations of the current study along with suggestions for further research.
In cognitive models of social phobia, the image of the self plays an important role in developing and maintaining social anxiety. In this study, we examined the retrieval of autobiographical memories in response to positive-negative word cues in a socially anxious group and non-anxious controls. To examine the roles of both imagery and autobiographical memory in the socially anxious group, we designed the experiment to test whether holding a positive or negative image in mind during a speech would affect the retrieval of autobiographical memories to positive and negative word cues using the autobiographical memory task (AMT). A total of 155 undergraduate students were screened using the Korean version of the Social Avoidance and Distress Scale. The Socially anxious group was slower to retrieve memories in response to both positive and negative words, and both the socially anxious group and the non-socially anxious group showed longer amounts of speech in response to negative word type. Both groups retrieved more specific memory in response to positive word type. After self-image manipulation, the socially anxious group was slower to retrieve memories in response to positive words than to negative words, regardless of whether positive or negative self-image was induced.
The purposes of this study were to explore moderating effects of the character strengths of police officers on the relation between job stress and subjective happiness. Job stress, subjective happiness, and the character strengths of 100 officers in the Korean national police agency were measured, and descriptive statistical analysis, correlation analysis, and hierarchical regression analysis were performed. This study verified moderating effects of character strengths: Modesty and optimism on the relation between job stress and subjective happiness, fairness on the relation between job stress and subjective happiness (meaningful life), and citizenship and authenticity on the relation between job stress and subjective happiness (pleasant life). These results indicate that the character strengths can lower stress, and improve subjective happiness. Showing moderating effects on some character strengths means that police officers cope with job stress and improve subjective happiness if they understand and practice the strengths appropriately. Finally, this study discussed implications based on the results, and proposed future research.
Self-compassion cultivation program (SCCP) is an intervention recently developed for prevention of borderline personality disorder (BPD). This program was based mainly on the stages of recovery from traumatic disorders, the concept of self-compassion, and compassionate mind training (CMT), given that trauma and inability to soothe and reassure oneself have been regarded as the key sources of BPD. In this paper, two cases, one female and one male undergraduate student with the features of BPD who participated in the SCCP group therapy, were reported. Both cases showed increases in self-compassion and positive affect, and reductions in emotion dysregulation, negative affect, and depression at post-treatment as compared with pre-treatment. They also showed increases in self-compassion and positive affect, and reductions in emotion dysregulation, negative affect, depression, and stress response at one-month follow-up as compared with pre-treatment. In addition, results indicated that the features of BPD of both cases at follow-up were below the screening cutoff score. Finally, the implications of these findings and direction for future research were discussed.
This review is intended to summarize and introduce the main contents of the book 'All you need is love and other lies about marriage: How to save your marriage before it's too late'. It was written by psychiatrist Jacobs who has been counselling couples in New York for about 30 years. He has practiced not only psychoanalytic intervention but also family system approaches as main inteventions. He regarded drastic life extension, changes in marriage attitude(from survival to love and happiness), women's new social and economic power, materialism/too fast and much information on modern society and destigmatized divorce as undermining long-term stability of marriages. He has selected 7 incorrect beliefs about marriage, which will hold couples together and contribute to their unhappiness over and over, suggesting their psychosocioeconomic meaning and various coping skills. Seven lies about marriage are as follows; excessive emphasis on love, communication problem, difficulty of change, family's legacy, egalitarian marriage, children solidifying a marriage and the sexual revolution of the modern couple. It is expected to provide useful therapeutic implications for clinical psychologists, marriage counsellors and the general public by its enriched resources and contents.
