ABSTRACT

Combining positive psychology with coaching is a complex matter. While most positive psychology coaching research promotes the use of positive psychology interventions in a coaching practice, the current study attempted to turn it on its head, and use coaching to amplify the effect of positive psychology interventions. In one-week-long randomised controlled trial with 45 participants, 24 (wait/control group) of them completed a gratitude-only intervention, whilst the remaining 21 (experimental group) engaged in a gratitude-and-coaching intervention. Three measures were used to identify the wellbeing differences of wait/control and experimental groups pre-intervention and immediately after the intervention. Paired-sample t-test results showed that participants in the gratitude-only intervention enhanced aspects of their subjective wellbeing, whereas those in the gratitude-and-coaching intervention increased an aspect of their eudaimonic wellbeing and dispositional gratitude. The study provided preliminary evidence that coaching can be used to amplify the effect of positive psychology interventions. The implications of the study are discussed along with the recommendations for future research.

摘要

将积极心理学与教练相结合是一件复杂的事情。虽然大多数积极心理学教练研究都提倡在教练实践中使用积极心理学干预，但目前的研究试图改变它，并使用教练来放大积极心理学干预的效果。在为期一周的 45 名参与者的随机对照试验中，其中 24 人（等待/对照组）完成了仅感恩干预，而其余 21 人（实验组）则进行了感恩和指导干预。使用三种测量方法来确定等待/对照组和实验组在干预前和干预后的幸福感差异。配对样本t- 测试结果表明，仅感恩干预的参与者增强了他们主观幸福感的各个方面，而感恩和指导干预的参与者增加了他们的幸福幸福感和性格感恩的一个方面。该研究提供了初步证据，表明教练可以用来放大积极心理学干预的效果。讨论了该研究的意义以及对未来研究的建议。