Sources and About
The episode
- How to Deal with Life's Crises, Petroly podcast (بودكاست بترولي), Mukhtalif radio. Ahmed Attar in conversation with Dr. Saad Al-Arifi. YouTube, 1:46:51.
- The episode is in Saudi Arabic. Quotes on this site are our translations and are lightly condensed. The site follows the episode's own 17 chapter markers, grouped into 12 chapters.
Sources cited
Outside sources used in "The idea, explained" sections. They add context from research; they are not the guest's sources. The Qur'an and hadith are quoted as the guest quotes them, in our translation.
| Source | Used in |
|---|---|
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| Seery, Holman & Silver (2010). Whatever does not kill us: cumulative lifetime adversity, vulnerability and resilience. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 99(6). doi | 2 |
| Ibn al-Qayyim, Where patience is mentioned in the Qur'an, English translation on abdurrahman.org. link | 2 |
| Brickman, Coates & Janoff-Bulman (1978). Lottery winners and accident victims: is happiness relative? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 36(8). doi | 3 |
| The Gottman Institute. Managing conflict: solvable vs. perpetual problems. link | 3 |
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| Bushman (2002). Does venting anger feed or extinguish the flame? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 28(6). doi | 6 |
| Rimé (2009). Emotion elicits the social sharing of emotion. Emotion Review 1(1). doi | 6 |
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| Segerstrom & Miller (2004). Psychological stress and the human immune system: a meta-analytic study of 30 years of inquiry. Psychological Bulletin 130(4). doi | 7 |
| Festinger (1954). A theory of social comparison processes. Human Relations 7(2). doi | 8 |
| Verduyn et al. (2015). Passive Facebook usage undermines affective well-being. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 144(2). doi | 8 |
| Kross et al. (2014). Self-talk as a regulatory mechanism: how you do it matters. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 106(2). doi | 8 |
| Seligman, Steen, Park & Peterson (2005). Positive psychology progress: empirical validation of interventions. American Psychologist 60(5). doi | 9 |
| Emmons & McCullough (2003). Counting blessings versus burdens. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 84(2). doi | 9 |
| Baron & Hershey (1988). Outcome bias in decision evaluation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 54(4). doi | 10 |
| Kelley et al. (2014). The influence of the patient-clinician relationship on healthcare outcomes. PLoS ONE 9(4). doi | 10 |
| Nolen-Hoeksema, Wisco & Lyubomirsky (2008). Rethinking rumination. Perspectives on Psychological Science 3(5). doi | 12 |
| Koo, Algoe, Wilson & Gilbert (2008). It's a wonderful life: mentally subtracting positive events improves people's affective states. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 95(5). doi | 12 |
| Dunn, Aknin & Norton (2008). Spending money on others promotes happiness. Science 319(5870). doi | 12 |
| Schuch et al. (2016). Exercise as a treatment for depression: a meta-analysis adjusting for publication bias. Journal of Psychiatric Research 77. doi | 12 |
| Neff (2003). The development and validation of a scale to measure self-compassion. Self and Identity 2(3). doi | 12 |
About this site
An independent study aid made to help people take in the episode slowly, chapter by chapter, in English and Arabic. It is not affiliated with the Petroly podcast, Mukhtalif radio or the guest. Every statement attributed to the episode is checked against a numbered transcript, and each chapter links to the minute it starts in the video.
Nothing here is medical or psychological advice. If a crisis feels too heavy to carry, please talk to someone you trust, a doctor or a mental-health professional.