SCRIPTS OF A COMPLEX AFFECTIVE FUNCTIONS REGULATION

Abstract

The current study presents preliminary results from an extensive study called "Potential to be well", conducted with different quotas taking in account gender, people with or without psy­chiatric diagnosis and cohorts of different ages. The aim of the re­search is to test some scales for self-assessment developed by positive psychology, implementing the multi-method ap­proach, but also to analyze the data for existing patterns’ differences in complex affective func­tions and dysfunctions. The “resilience”, “subjective life-satisfaction”, “emotional expressive­ness”, “expressive ambivalence”, “suppression or reappraisal in emotion regulation” invento­ries are reliable and valid measures, which reflect complex subjective functions from the emo­tional sphere. It is noted that these indices follow a bi-directional logic – some patterns express negative trends in experiences, and others reflect a positive psychological transformation of primary functions helping to overcome emotional difficulties and turning adversity into ad­vantage. It was also found that three scripts of complex mediatory sequential models are demonstrated, which combined, predict how two intuitive routes sustain and effect deterioration or improvement in the context of an individual case interpretation.