Upswings in Cheerful Mood and Disease Activity in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Delgado-Domínguez, C. J.; Contreras, A. Escudero; Font‐Ugalde, Pilar; Ruíz-Vilchez, Desirée; Estévez, E. Collantes; Carretero‐Dios, Hugo

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“…In a recent study, López-Benítez et al (in press) have found that, compared to low trait cheerfulness people, individuals characterized by high trait cheerfulness experienced a larger affective state change as a consequence of watching amusing and sad stimuli. The authors interpreted this finding as larger affective sensitivity or permeability to the environment, thus promoting some psychological, social, and physical benefits in high trait cheerfulness individuals (e.g., Yip and Martin, 2006; Carretero-Dios et al, 2014; Delgado-Domínguez et al, 2016). In this sense, it is possible that the presentation of a cue to anticipate the task might be a powerful element to capture and focus high cheerfulness people’s attention, promoting a better permeability (larger preparation effects) to it.…”

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“…In this sense, it has been pointed out that cheerfulness affects dispositions of the exhilaration response (Ruch, 1997), predicts most of sense-of-humor facets, contributes to the use of humor as a recovery strategy, and is associated with affiliative and self-enhancing humor styles (Ruch and Hofmann, 2012). Moreover, other research support the applicability and relevance of cheerfulness in areas as diverse as personality, health, or emotion (e.g., Ruch et al, 1996, 1997; Yip and Martin, 2006; Ruch and Köhler, 2007; Papousek and Schulter, 2010; Carretero-Dios et al, 2011; Ruch and Hofmann, 2012; Delgado-Domínguez et al, 2016). …”

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Trait Cheerfulness Does Not Influence Switching Costs But Modulates Preparation and Repetition Effects in a Task-Switching Paradigm

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Many studies have shown the beneficial effect of positive emotions on various cognitive processes, such as creativity and cognitive flexibility. Cheerfulness, understood as an affective predisposition to sense of humor, has been associated with positive emotions. So far, however, no studies have shown the relevance of this dimension in cognitive flexibility processes. The aim of this research was to analyze the relationship between cheerfulness and these processes. To this end, we carried out two studies using a task-switching paradigm. Study 1 aimed at analyzing whether high trait cheerfulness was related to better cognitive flexibility (as measured by reduced task-switching costs), whereas Study 2 aimed at replicating the pattern of data observed in Study 1. The total sample was composed of 139 participants (of which 86 were women) selected according to their high versus low scores in trait cheerfulness. In a random way, participants had to judge whether the face presented to them in each trial was that of a man or a woman (gender recognition task) or whether it expressed anger or happiness (expressed emotion recognition task). We expected participants with high versus low trait cheerfulness to show a lower task-switching cost (i.e., higher cognitive flexibility). Results did not confirm this hypothesis. However, in both studies, participants with high versus low trait cheerfulness showed a higher facilitation effect when the stimuli attributes were repeated and also when a cue was presented anticipating the demand to perform. We discuss the relevance of these results for a better understanding of cheerfulness.

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Trait Cheerfulness Does Not Influence Switching Costs But Modulates Preparation and Repetition Effects in a Task-Switching Paradigm

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“…Recently, the state-trait cheerfulness influence on self-reported disease activity levels in rheumatoid arthritis patients (Delgado-Domínguez et al, 2016 ) was investigated in a cross-sectional study. State cheerfulness and trait cheerfulness were assessed at the same time as a blood sample was taken from patients in order to analyze the corresponding biochemical parameters (Erythrocyte sedimentation rate and C-reactive protein), and just before measuring patient-reported disease activity.…”

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“…Moreover, higher state cheerfulness was associated with lower values of C-reactive protein. Finally, results showed that the relationship between the biochemical parameters of rheumatoid arthritis and patient-reported disease activity partially depended (i.e., mediation analysis) on cheerful mood at the moment of assessment (Delgado-Domínguez et al, 2016 ).…”

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Assessing the Temperamental Basis of the Sense of Humor: Adaptation of the English Language Version of the State-Trait Cheerfulness Inventory Long and Standard Form

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The State-Trait Model of Cheerfulness assesses the temperamental basis of the sense of humor with the traits and respective states of cheerfulness, seriousness, and bad mood. Cheerfulness is a dominant factor in current measures of the sense of humor and explains both, the disposition to engaging in smiling and laughter, as well as humor behaviors, and trait seriousness and bad mood are antagonistic to the elicitation of amusement (albeit for different reasons). Several studies have shown the validity and reliability of the STCI questionnaire in German and other language versions (i.e., Spanish). In this study, the English language version with 106 items (STCI-T <106>) was translated, checked for its item and scale characteristics, and tested with a confirmatory factor analysis approach (N = 1101) to investigate the factorial validity of the STCI-T <106> scale. Results show good psychometric characteristics, good internal consistencies, and a fit to the postulated underlying structure of the STCI-T. Then, the standard form with 60 items (STCI-T <60>) was developed and the psychometric characteristics initially tested. In an independent sample (N = 169), the characteristics of the standard form were compared to the parent form and German equivalent. It showed good psychometric characteristics, internal consistencies, as well as a good self- and peer-report congruence. To conclude, the STCI-T <106> is the measure of choice for the assessment of the temperamental basis of the sense of humor and the separate facets of the traits, while the standard form (60 items) allows of an economic assessment of cheerfulness, seriousness, and bad mood, free of context-saturated items and humor preferences.

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“…They may help to provide a momentary respite from ongoing stress and adversity 1–3 , and may perturb downward spirals of chronic negative moods and stress perhaps even in emotion-related psychopathology 4 . Some research reported that positive emotional experiences such as short-lived joy or amusement may exert transient analgesic-like effects 5–8 . However, even when exposed to the same amount of positive emotion elicitors in their daily lives, some people benefit more than others.…”

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Poor control of interference from negative content hampers the effectiveness of humour as a source of positive emotional experiences

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The brain-based ability to direct attention away from interfering negative information may co-determine to which degree one may benefit from humour as a source of positive emotional experiences. This should be particularly relevant when it comes to humour that implicates a target the joke makes fun of, which inherently entails rivalry between positive and negative emotional representations. One hundred healthy individuals completed a pictorial negative affective priming task and a nonverbal humour processing task. In line with the notion that during the elaborative processing of malicious jokes, interference from negative emotional representations hampers the experience of amusement, participants took more time to judge their amusement evoked by malicious compared to benign jokes. Lesser ability to distract attention from interfering negative emotional representations was associated with slower judgements of amusement following the processing of malicious jokes, as well as with lower amusement ratings. The time it took participants to comprehend the punch-lines was not affected, neither was the immediate, short-lived pleasure after having comprehended the humour, measured by characteristic transient cardiac activation. The findings suggest that the effective use of humour as a source of positive emotional experiences requires the ability to overcome the dark side of typical humour.

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Upswings in Cheerful Mood and Disease Activity in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Abstract: The findings suggest interesting possibilities for the diagnosis and monitoring of disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis.

Cited by 13 publications

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Trait Cheerfulness Does Not Influence Switching Costs But Modulates Preparation and Repetition Effects in a Task-Switching Paradigm

Trait Cheerfulness Does Not Influence Switching Costs But Modulates Preparation and Repetition Effects in a Task-Switching Paradigm

Assessing the Temperamental Basis of the Sense of Humor: Adaptation of the English Language Version of the State-Trait Cheerfulness Inventory Long and Standard Form

Poor control of interference from negative content hampers the effectiveness of humour as a source of positive emotional experiences

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