It ain’t over ‘til it’s over: The effect of task completion on the savoring of success

Schall, Marina; Goetz, Thomas; Martiny, Sarah E.; Hall, Nathan C.

doi:10.1007/s11031-016-9591-5

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“…One factor that may affect the extent to which both passion varieties predict responses to positive events is the type of positive event that takes place. Recently, an important distinction has been made between positive experiences that occur at two stages of goal pursuit: in-progress achievements and completed achievements (Schall, Goetz, Martiny, & Hall, 2017). In-progress achievements are milestones that are reached in the pursuit of an ultimate goal (e.g., a sports fan's team wins the league semi-final, a student aces a mid-term exam, a novelist writes a chapter).…”

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“…Achieving an ultimate goal should be an event that has the most potential to be savored, and may present fewer reasons to dampen positive feelings. Indeed, previous research has shown that people engage in more savoring following successes resulting from completing a task compared to when a task is still in progress (Schall et al, 2017).…”

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“…Hypothetical scenarios are useful in studying how people expect to behave in different situations (Schall et al, 2017), and have been used to assess savoring in response to an event that is identical for all participants (e.g., Gentzler, Palmer, & Ramsey, 2016). Using scenarios also allowed us to experimentally manipulate the status of goal pursuit.…”

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“…After reading the scenario, all participants reported the extent to which they would engage in savoring and dampening behavior in response to the scenario. Savoring was assessed with five items (see Schall et al, 2017): "I would savor the present moment", "I would think about how happy I am", "I would think about things that made me feel pleasure", "I would focus all my attention on my happiness", "I would think about things that help me prolong my positive feelings"; α = .91). Dampening was assessed with three items: "I would think about things that decrease my positive feelings" (Schall et al, 2017), "I would think about things to decrease my good feelings -to make myself feel not as good", and "I would think about things to decrease my excitementto calm down" (see Wood et al, 2003;α = .86).…”

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Savoring and Dampening with Passion: How Passionate People Respond when Good Things Happen

Schellenberg

Gaudreau

2019

J Happiness Stud

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AcknowledgementsThis is a pre-print of an article published in the Journal of Happiness Studies. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi. AbstractHow do people react when they experience a positive event while pursuing a passionate activity?In this research, we conducted three studies to test if the extent to which people respond to positive events by engaging in savoring (i.e., attempting to maintain or enhance positive emotions) and dampening (i.e., attempting to down-regulated or stifle positive emotions) is predicted by levels of harmonious and obsessive passion for an activity. Study 1 (n = 321) andStudy 2 (n = 547) both showed that harmonious passion positively predicted savoring, whereas obsessive passion predicted less savoring and greater dampening. Moreover, in Study 2, savoring mediated the relationships between both passion varieties and well-being outcomes. In Study 3, we extended these findings and tested if these relationships depended on whether a positive event was a result of an in-progress or completed achievement. Soccer fans (n = 394) imagined how they would react if their favorite team won either the semi-final (in-progress condition) or final (completed condition) of the ongoing UEFA champions league. In both scenarios, harmonious passion was a stronger predictor of savoring than obsessive passion.Obsessive passion also showed strong relationships with dampening in both scenarios, although this relationship was attenuated in the completed condition. Overall, these results reveal that passion varieties matter for predicting how people manage their good feelings following positive events, a finding that has implications for our understanding of the pathways that link passion varieties with well-being outcomes.

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Savoring and Dampening with Passion: How Passionate People Respond when Good Things Happen

Schellenberg

Gaudreau

2019

J Happiness Stud

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Savoring and dampening with passion: How passionate people respond when good things happen

Schellenberg¹,

Gaudreau²

2019

Preprint

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How do people react when they experience a positive event while pursuing a passionate activity? In this research, we conducted three studies to test if the extent to which people respond to positive events by engaging in savoring (i.e., attempting to maintain or enhance positive emotions) and dampening (i.e., attempting to down-regulated or stifle positive emotions) is predicted by levels of harmonious and obsessive passion for an activity. Study 1 (n = 321) and Study 2 (n = 547) both showed that harmonious passion positively predicted savoring, whereas obsessive passion predicted less savoring and greater dampening. Moreover, in Study 2, savoring mediated the relationships between both passion varieties and well-being outcomes. In Study 3, we extended these findings and tested if these relationships depended on whether a positive event was a result of an in-progress or completed achievement. Soccer fans (n = 394) imagined how they would react if their favorite team won either the semi-final (in-progress condition) or final (completed condition) of the ongoing UEFA champions league. In both scenarios, harmonious passion was a stronger predictor of savoring than obsessive passion. Obsessive passion also showed strong relationships with dampening in both scenarios, although this relationship was attenuated in the completed condition. Overall, these results reveal that passion varieties matter for predicting how people manage their good feelings following positive events, a finding that has implications for our understanding of the pathways that link passion varieties with well-being outcomes.

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Good times, bad times: A closer look at the relationship between savoring and self-compassion

Schellenberg

Semenchuk²,

Bailis³

et al. 2022

Personality and Individual Differences

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It ain’t over ‘til it’s over: The effect of task completion on the savoring of success

Cited by 12 publications

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Savoring and Dampening with Passion: How Passionate People Respond when Good Things Happen

Savoring and Dampening with Passion: How Passionate People Respond when Good Things Happen

Savoring and dampening with passion: How passionate people respond when good things happen

Good times, bad times: A closer look at the relationship between savoring and self-compassion

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