Effects of Awe on Mental Health and Well-Being
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 60
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Daily awe experience questionnaire
研究概览
简要总结
Awe is a powerful positive emotion that offsets negative emotion and fosters prosocial behavior. This study examined the effects of awe on health and well-being in healthy older adults. Half of the participants took a weekly "awe walk" while the other half took a weekly walk with no further instructions.
详细描述
Awe fosters well-being and positive emotions that promote social relationships. Awe shifts attention from ourselves to the outside world and is associated with diminished self-focused attention. We aimed to increase awe in healthy older adults to test whether greater awe experience would lead to gains in other types of positive emotional experience and reductions in negative emotional experience.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 40 Years 至 90 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Stable medical condition for 3 months prior to screening
- •Reliant informant with frequent contact with participant who is available to provide observations of participant
- •Fluent in English or Spanish
- •Age: 40 and above
- •Able to complete baseline assessments
- •Education or work history sufficient to exclude mental retardation
- •Physically acceptable for this study as confirmed by medical history, physical exam, neurological exam and clinical tests
排除标准
- •Major memory concerns/diagnosed memory condition
- •Korsakoff encephalopathy
- •Active substance abuse
- •Brain tumor
- •Active neoplastic disease (skin tumors other than melanoma are not exclusionary)
- •Parkinson's disease
- •Multiple sclerosis (untreated)
- •Sleep apnea
- •History of clinically significant stroke
- •Current evidence or history in the past 2 years of epilepsy, focal brain lesion, cancer, steroid use, or DSM-IV criteria for any major psychiatric disorder including psychosis, major depression, bipolar disorder, alcohol or substance abuse
- •Blindness, deafness, language difficulties or any other disability which may prevent the participant from participating or cooperating in the protocol
研究组 & 干预措施
Awe Walk Condition
Participants were instructed to take at least one (~15 minute) walk per week for 8 consecutive weeks. Participants were told to seek the experience of feeling awe. Participants were told to keep a fairly light to moderate pace and were encouraged to walk alone and without interruption from a mobile device.
干预措施: Awe Walk (Behavioral)
Control Walk Condition
Participants were instructed to take at least one (~15 minute) walk per week for 8 consecutive weeks. Participants were told to keep a fairly light to moderate pace and were encouraged to walk alone and without interruption from a mobile device.
干预措施: Control Walk (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Daily awe experience questionnaire
时间窗: 8 weeks
Increase in awe experience
次要结局
- Satisfaction With Life Scale(8 weeks)
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder- 7 Item Scale(8 weeks)
- Daily compassion experience questionnaire(8 weeks)
- Daily negative emotional experience questionnaire(8 weeks)