Strategy | Operational definition | Example | Evidence sourcea |
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Situation selection | Choosing or changing a situation to initiate or maintain a positive emotion. | ‘I try to fill my time with things that make me happy.’ (P14) | H = 61.52 %,L = 68.75 % |
Directed attention | Choosing to focus attention in order to embrace current past or future positive emotion. | ‘I sometimes tell myself how happy I am and how lucky I am to have the things I have so I kinda like it makes me more happy’ (P8) | H = 38.46 %, L = 56.25 % |
Substance use | The use of substances (e.g. food, caffeine, alcohol, cannabis) to initiate or enhance positive emotion. | ‘…like playing games in particular is enhanced by smoking weed because it makes you worse and that makes it funnier’ (P14) | H = 7.69 %, L = 18.75 % |
Passive | No explicit action taken to alter positive emotion. | ‘yeah I don’t know happiness I have never I don’t really seem to think about happy as much as I do try to get rid of negative’ (P20) | H = 30.77 %, L = 37.50 % |