Effect of Workplace Laughter Groups on Personal Efficacy Beliefs

Beckman, Heidi T.; Regier, Nathan; Young, Judy

doi:10.1007/s10935-007-0082-z

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“…Mood also increased, though not to the same extent. The finding that positive emotions increase following an induced laughter intervention is consistent with previous research (Dolgoff-Kaspar et al 2012;Suraj-Narayan & Surajnarayan 2011;Beckman, Regier & Young 2007). Specifically, the increased GLS is consistent with the findings of Shahidi et al (2011) who found that elderly participants diagnosed with depression also reported increases in GLS.…”

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The impact of laughter yoga on subjective wellbeing: A pilot study

Weinberg

Hammond

Cummins

2013

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“…Similar findings have been reported in an organisational context. Employees who completed 15 sessions of laughter yoga reported significant improvements in perceived self-efficacy in the workplace, and experienced sustained positive emotions at a 90-day follow-up (Beckman, Regier & Young 2007).…”

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The impact of laughter yoga on subjective wellbeing: A pilot study

Weinberg

Hammond

Cummins

2013

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“…For example, Beckman, Regier, and Young (2007) measured the impact of a purposeful aerobic laughter intervention on employees' happiness. Participants met for 15-min sessions on 15 consecutive workdays and engaged in a guided program of non-humor-dependent laughter.…”

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Positive interventions: An emotion regulation perspective.

Quoidbach

Mikolajczak

Gross

2015

Psychological Bulletin

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The rapid growth of the literature on positive interventions to increase "happiness" has suggested the need for an overarching conceptual framework to integrate the many and apparently disparate findings. In this review, we used the process model of emotion regulation (Gross, 1998) to organize the existing literature on positive interventions and to advance theory by clarifying the mechanisms underlying their effectiveness. We have proposed that positive emotions can be increased both in the short- and longer-term through 5 families of emotion regulation strategies (i.e., situation selection, situation modification, attentional deployment, cognitive change, and response modulation), showing how these emotion regulation strategies can be applied before, during, and after positive emotional events. Regarding short-term increases in positive emotions, our review found that attentional deployment, cognitive change, and response modulation strategies have received the most empirical support, whereas more work is needed to establish the effectiveness of situation selection and situation modification strategies. Regarding longer-term increases in positive emotions, strategies such as situation selection during an event and attentional deployment before, during, and after an event have received strong empirical support and are at the center of many positive interventions. However, more work is needed to establish the specific benefits of the other strategies, especially situation modification. We argue that our emotion regulation framework clarifies existing interventions and points the way for new interventions that might be used to increase positive emotions in both nonclinical and clinical populations.

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“…Nicméně smích a humor je třeba odlišovat. Beckman, Regier, a Young (2007) hovoří o kognitivních účincích v případě humoru, v případě smíchu o účincích fyzických. Různost je patrná i v původech pojmů.…”

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