Positive emotional experiences in Scottish and Italian young adults: a diary study

Elaine Duncan; I. Grazzani-Gavazzi

doi:10.1007/s10902-004-0666-8

Positive emotional experiences in Scottish and Italian young adults: a diary study

Elaine Duncan, I. Grazzani-Gavazzi

Psychology

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Abstract

This research focused on the nature and frequency of positive emotion in a sample of Scottish and Italian young adults and is part of larger scale on-going cross-cultural studies on positive emotion, well-being and happiness. A total of 1043 positive incidents were collected from 157 students who completed diaries in the two countries. Positive incidents were frequent in the course of daily life and were triggered by a wide variety of personal, social and environmental antecedents.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Happiness Studies
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-004-0666-8
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2002

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Keywords

Scotland
young adults
positive emotion
Italy

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Duncan, E., & Grazzani-Gavazzi, I. (2002). Positive emotional experiences in Scottish and Italian young adults: a diary study. Journal of Happiness Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-004-0666-8

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