In addition, we adjusted for baseline physical health and lifestyle factors, including history of heart disease, stroke, cancer, high cholesterol, hypertension, and diabetes; cigarette smoking; alcohol intake; physical activity (measured in metabolic equivalents)19; body mass index; and dieta...
Interventions targeting optimism have largely relied on the Best Possible Self activity [68] or some variant of it, where people are requested to think about their future life (“Imagine that everything has gone as well as it possibly could”) and then write down their reflections. Meta-...
However, there is a limited understanding of how or why these interventions work nor what function gratitude plays in the lives of young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. As such, the purpose of the paper was to explore the sources and targets of gratitude of college students during the ...
What we also know is mental illness, like anxiety and depression, is on the rise. The latestfindingsrevealed that 19.1% of U.S. adults experienced mental illness in 2018 (47.6 million people). This represents 1 in 5 adults. So what can you do to live a more positive and happier life?
Health education Reflecting on gratitude| Promoting healthy lifestyles in adults THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH Karol Linda Kumpfer Fenollar BatallerJoaquinThe main aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of an innovative health prevention program, the Healthy and Fit Adults Program (HFAP). The H...
adults who were more grateful and in older adults who were less grateful. Women were less lonely than men, on average, and the gender difference was significant for those younger and more grateful, or older and less grateful. Thus, the beneficial effect of gratitude on loneliness differed ...
Simple activities that model gratitude can help children make it a habit for life. One easy way to create this habit is to set aside a certain time of day to verbally express and reflect on what you are grateful for in life. Children need to hear adults expressing gratitude. ...
Play "rose, bud, thorn." Try this activity at dinner time or another time when your family gathers most days. “In the exercise, each family member shares one thing they’re grateful for that happened that day (that’s the rose), one thing they didn’t like so much (that’s the th...
for actual self-improvement such as engaging in healthy lifestyles, we investigated the relation between dispositional gratitude and serum lipid levels. Participants consisted of 1800 adults from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS) 2: Biomarker Project (N = ...
Tinkergarten’s “Thankful Tree” tradition; a fun gratitude activity for kids and the whole family, teaches how to express thanks for nature and the people we love.