Emotions and Life Daily

The essay, Up-regulating positive emotions in daily life: techniques, personality variations, and experiences of positive emotion and well-being offers an in-depth analysis of the strategies used by individuals to up-regulate positive emotions and emotion and well-being associations. The essay reflects on whether people use emotion management to improve or sustain healthy emotions. The arguments for up-regulation of positive emotions include that positive emotions are pleasurable and that positive emotions are effective both in the long run and short term. These benefits include psychological adaptation including broadening of attention scope, contentment and building long-term physical, cognitive and social resources (Livingstone & Srivastava, 2012). The role of positive emotion in undoing the psychological and physiological consequences of negative emotion and enhancing wellbeing and resilience in the long-term also support up-regulation of positive emotions. The role of positive emotion in causing happiness, personal and social success is also highlighted to support the point. The association between positive emotion up-regulation to short-term and long-term wellbeing is also provided in the article. The authors effectively use previous research to support the point on up-regulation of positive emotion. The point was also made well by utilizing scientific models including the Broaden-and-Build model of positive emotions, which the authors use to support up-regulation of positive emotion. The research used to support the points is peer-reviewed journals and utilizes a mixture of recent and former promoting comprehensiveness. The arguments were convincing, and the backing by past research offers credibility to the researcher’s assertion. ReferenceLivingstone, K. M., & Srivastava, S. (2012). Up-regulating positive emotions in everyday life: Strategies, individual differences, and associations with positive emotion and well-being. Journal of Research in Personality, 46(5), 504-516.