When Bad Moods May Not Be So Bad: Valuing Negative Affect Is Associated With Weakened Affect-Health Links
When Bad Moods May Not Be So Bad: Valuing Negative Affect Is Associated With Weakened Affect-Health Links
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DOI：
10.1037/emo0000132
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发表时间：
2016-04-01
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影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Riediger, Michaela
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作者：
Luong, Gloria;Wrzus, Cornelia;Riediger, Michaela
坏情绪被认为是“坏”的，不仅因为它们本身可能是令人厌恶的经历，而且还因为它们与较差的心理社会功能和健康有关。我们建议，人们在他们的负面影响评价（NAV;在何种程度上，负面情感状态被认为是愉快的，有用的/有帮助的，适当的，有意义的经验）和影响健康的联系是由NAV调节。这些预测在365名年龄在14-88岁之间的参与者的寿命样本中进行了测试，使用瞬时负面影响和身体健康的报告（通过经验采样）以及NAV和心理社会和身体功能的评估（通过计算机辅助个人访谈和手握力的行为测量）。我们的研究表明，越多的人重视负面影响，负面影响的日常经历与各种心理社会功能较差的指标之间的关联就越不明显（有时甚至不存在）。情绪健康问题，社会融合）和身体健康（即，健康状况的数量、健康投诉、手握力、瞬时身体健康）。探索性分析显示，重视积极的影响是不相关的类似的调节作用的NAV。这些发现表明，在影响健康联系的模型中考虑NAV可能特别重要。
Bad moods are considered "bad" not only because they may be aversive experiences in and of themselves, but also because they are associated with poorer psychosocial functioning and health. We propose that people differ in their negative affect valuation (NAV; the extent to which negative affective states are valued as pleasant, useful/helpful, appropriate, and meaningful experiences) and that affect-health links are moderated by NAV. These predictions were tested in a life span sample of 365 participants ranging from 14-88 years of age using reports of momentary negative affect and physical well-being (via experience sampling) and assessments of NAV and psychosocial and physical functioning (via computer-assisted personal interviews and behavioral measures of hand grip strength). Our study demonstrated that the more individuals valued negative affect, the less pronounced (and sometimes even nonexistent) were the associations between everyday experiences of negative affect and a variety of indicators of poorer psychosocial functioning (i.e., emotional health problems, social integration) and physical health (i.e., number of health conditions, health complaints, hand grip strength, momentary physical well-being). Exploratory analyses revealed that valuing positive affect was not associated with the analogous moderating effects as NAV. These findings suggest that it may be particularly important to consider NAV in models of affect-health links.