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| Active movement toward, rather than away from, a stressful or emotional encounter. |
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| Active movement away from, rather than toward, a stressful or emotional encounter. |
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| Free and intentional display of feeling. |
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| According to Salovey and Mayer's four-branch ability model, the skills (1) to perceive and express feeling (2) to use emotions and emotional understanding to facilitate thinking; (3) to understand complex emotions, relationships among emotions, and relationships between emotions and behavioral consequences; and (4) to manage emotions. |
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| The attempt to understand one's emotions. |
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| Written disclosure of emotional upheaval. |
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| Systematic written disclosure of emotional upheaval often involving several times sessions. |
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| SOCIOEMOTIONAL SELECTIVITY THEORY |
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| Carstensen's theory that, as compared to younger adults, older adults are more able to focus less on negative emotions, to engage more deeply with emotional content, and to savor the positive in life. |
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