Pandey Ruchi, Tiwari Gyanesh Kumar, Rai Pramod Kumar
Department of Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dr. Harisingh Gour University, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Curr Issues Personal Psychol. 2021 Apr 10;9(2):135-147. doi: 10.5114/cipp.2021.105260. eCollection 2021.
Although self-affirmation has been reported to enhance well-being and other positive life outcomes in normal adults, little is known about its capacity to restore and preserve well-being in adults with depressive tendencies. The current study attempts to expound the restoring and preserving capacity of self-affirmation for well-being in Indian adults with non-clinical depressive tendencies.
The study used a sequential research design. Eighty participants (22-27 years) with depressive tendencies were chosen through purposive sampling and were randomly assigned equally to the experimental and control conditions. Their depressive tendencies and well-being were measured through standard scales at three intervals: pre-intervention, post-intervention and follow-up.
The results revealed significant restoring and preserving capacity of self-affirmation for the well-being of the experimental group participants as compared to the control group. The main effects of conditions (experimental, control) and treatment intervals (pre, post, follow-up) were significant along with the interaction effects of conditions × treatment intervals. The significant differences in the mean well-being scores for pre-intervention, post-intervention and follow-up points of time showed the restoring and preserving capacity of self-affirmation intervention.
The findings showed that self-affirmation helps to restore well-being as well as preserve it after a significant gap, which is evident in higher well-being mean scores of the experimental group taken at post-intervention and follow-up intervals. The positive effects of self-affirmation on well-being may have remained active even after the cessation of the intervention due to the underlying mechanisms of enhanced self-worth, positive values, inner strengths, positive attributions and interpersonal relationships.
尽管自我肯定已被报道可增强正常成年人的幸福感及其他积极的生活成果，但对于其在有抑郁倾向的成年人中恢复和维持幸福感的能力却知之甚少。当前研究试图阐述自我肯定对有非临床抑郁倾向的印度成年人幸福感的恢复和维持能力。
该研究采用了序贯研究设计。通过目的抽样选取了80名有抑郁倾向的参与者（22 - 27岁），并将他们随机平均分配到实验组和对照组。在三个时间点通过标准量表测量他们的抑郁倾向和幸福感：干预前、干预后和随访。
结果显示，与对照组相比，自我肯定对实验组参与者的幸福感具有显著的恢复和维持能力。条件（实验组、对照组）和治疗时间间隔（干预前、干预后、随访）的主效应显著，同时条件×治疗时间间隔的交互效应也显著。干预前、干预后和随访时间点的平均幸福感得分的显著差异表明了自我肯定干预的恢复和维持能力。
研究结果表明，自我肯定有助于恢复幸福感，并在显著的时间间隔后维持幸福感，这在干预后和随访期间实验组较高的平均幸福感得分中很明显。由于自我价值感增强、积极价值观、内在优势、积极归因和人际关系等潜在机制，即使在干预停止后，自我肯定对幸福感的积极影响可能仍然存在。
