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Potential Mechanisms in a Novel Positive Psychology Intervention Enhancing Personal Recovery in Patients with Bipolar Disorder: A Mediation Analysis
Bockholt, Elisa (2022) Potential Mechanisms in a Novel Positive Psychology Intervention Enhancing Personal Recovery in Patients with Bipolar Disorder: A Mediation Analysis.
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| Abstract: | Despite increasing attention towards positive psychology interventions and the concept of personal recovery in research of bipolar disorder (BD), there is still lack of knowledge about potential mechanisms underlying the effectiveness of positive psychology interventions (PPIs). The current study was a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial investigating the effectiveness of a multicomponent PPI on personal recovery in euthymic BD patients. It focused on the three positive emotion regulation strategies dampening of positive emotion, emotion-focused and self-focused positive rumination as potential moderators for the effect of the PPI “Living well with bipolar disorder” on personal recovery. A sample of euthymic patients (N = 97) diagnosed with BDI or BDII between 18-65 years of age was randomly allocated to either the experimental or control condition. Personal recovery was measured at different points in time, including four-week in the intervention, post-measurement, and six-months follow-up. Simple and multiple mediation analyses have shown nonsignificant indirect effects for dampening (ab = -0.67, BC 95% CI = -2.37 to 0.42), emotion-focused (ab = -0.09, BC 95% CI = -0.96 to 1.06), and self-focused positive rumination (ab = 0.07, BC 95% CI = -0.84 to 1.08). Thus, there was no significant mediation effect of the three mechanisms on the relationship between the PPI and personal recovery. With that, the current study contradicts previous research on the importance of the specific emotion regulation strategies in personal recovery from BD. The limitations of the present study include a relatively small sample size which has led to underpowered statistical analysis. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 77 psychology |
| Programme: | Psychology MSc (66604) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/89673 |
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