A Grateful Heart is a Nonviolent Heart: Cross-Sectional, Experience Sampling, Longitudinal, and Experimental Evidence
A Grateful Heart is a Nonviolent Heart: Cross-Sectional, Experience Sampling, Longitudinal, and Experimental Evidence
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DOI：
10.1177/1948550611416675
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发表时间：
2012-03-01
影响因子：
5.7
通讯作者：
Fincham, Frank D.
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作者：
DeWall, C. Nathan;Lambert, Nathaniel M.;Fincham, Frank D.
五项研究检验了感恩与较低程度的攻击性有关的假设。虽然感恩可以增加心理健康，但感恩是否能减轻攻击性尚不清楚。感恩会激励人们表达对他人的敏感和关心，并刺激亲社会行为。攻击行为被定义为故意伤害另一个人，但其动机是避免伤害，这与增加他人福利的动机背道而驰，在感恩的人中应该减少攻击行为。横截面、纵向、经验抽样和实验设计产生了一致的证据，表明感恩与较低的攻击性有关。较高的同理心调节了感恩与较低的攻击性之间的关系。这些发现对于理解情绪对攻击性的作用具有广泛的应用，并且可以为旨在减少人际攻击性的干预措施提供信息。
Five studies tested the hypothesis that gratitude is linked to lower levels of aggression. Although gratitude increases mental well-being, it is unknown whether gratitude mitigates against aggression. Gratitude motivates people to express sensitivity and concern for others and stimulates prosocial behavior. Aggression, defined as intentionally harming another person who is motivated to avoid the harm, runs counter to the motivation to increase others' welfare and should be reduced among grateful people. Cross-sectional, longitudinal, experience sampling, and experimental designs yielded converging evidence to show that gratitude is linked to lower aggression. Higher empathy mediated the relationship between gratitude and lower aggression. These findings have widespread applications for understanding the role of emotion on aggression and can inform interventions aimed at reducing interpersonal aggression.