This paper outlines a framework to understand and further study how meaning mediates psychological processes. Central to this paper is the concept of mediational meaning: a representation of "me in the world," socially distributed as a cultural artifact, that "encodes" emotion and motivates social...
A growth-curve analysis showed that the level of delinquency for the prevention group was lower at 13 years (i.e., the intercept) than in the control group. There was, however, no direct effect of the program on the growth (i.e., the slope) of delinquency from 13 through 16 years ...
In a dynamic system, time-dependent links between affective factors can provide more information than the level of response within a single isolated system. In the present study, influenced by the positive psychology movement and the complex dynamic systems theory in the domain of sec...
Financial preparedness for an emergency is conceptualized as an individual’s state of being financially prepared to deal with a financial shock that may hinder him or her from carrying out routine activities (Abrantes-Braga and Veludo-de-Oliveira2019). Therefore, people who have financial stability...
Emotion regulation is defined as “the process of initiating, maintaining, modulating, or changing the occurrence, intensity, or duration of internal affective states and physiological processes, often with the aim of achieving a goal” [5] and influences the way in which adolescents can experience...
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