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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hodson, Luke
• MacCallum, Fiona
• Watson, Derrick G.
• Blagrove, Elisabeth

Titel

Dear diary: Evaluating a goal-oriented intervention linked with increased hope and cognitive flexibility

Ist Teil von

• Personality and individual differences, 2021-01, Vol.168, p.110383, Article 110383

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Goal reflection can have a beneficial impact on hope and cognitive flexibility, potentially via processes proposed under the Broaden and Build Hypothesis (BBH). In the present study, a novel goal-oriented intervention was developed to explore its efficacy in improving state and trait hope, affect, and cognitive flexibility. Using a convergent mixed methods approach, 44 participants completed a seven-day diary intervention, recording/reflecting on goals daily, in addition to questionnaire and cognitive fluency measures pre- and post- intervention. The intervention elicited increased levels of state hope, trait agency, and task fluency with converging evidence from quantitative/qualitative data. These results suggest a dynamic interrelation between hope and cognitive flexibility. •Support for daily goal-oriented reflection as an intervention•Increases found for state hope, trait agency, and cognitive flexibility•Goal reflection also enabled a reduction in negativity.•Qualitative data supported changes, indicating a positive experience•Mixed methods design integral to facilitating the findings