Passion for Social Causes: The Benefits of Unpleasant Experiences for Psychological Well-being

要改善心理健康，重要的是要了解心理健康蓬勃发展的条件。传统上，幸福感被概念化为高积极情感(如快乐)和低消极情感(如愤怒)。然而，Juhl等人。(2017)提出了一些以负面情感为特征的情况，这些情况可能对幸福感有好处，因为它们还有助于满足基本的心理需求(例如，生活意义、自尊和社会连通性)。此外，他们还提出了一系列典型的与负面情感相关的情况，可以满足心理需求，并用情感-消极需要-满足模型总结了它们的主张。一种潜在的情感负面但需要满足的情况是“对社会事业和信仰的热情”。这一广义的情况包括社会运动、集体行动、抗议和宗教/政治信仰。在这种情况下，激情可能会表现为愤怒和沮丧。然而，这些情况可能会让人们确认自己的信仰(满足对意义的需要)，占据道德高地(满足自尊的需要)，并与他人站在一起(满足社交联系的需要)。还没有研究直接测试这一模型。在一系列研究中，我将测试(1)对社会事业的热情是否确实是一种同时具有负面情绪和对意义、自尊和社会联系的需求的满足的情况，(2)人们是否愿意将自己置身于这种情感负面的情况中，以满足这些需求，以及(3)这种负面情况是否缓冲了对这些需求的威胁带来的负面心理影响。

To improve psychological well-being, it is important to understand the conditions under whichpsychological well-being thrives. Traditionally, well-being has been conceptualized as high positive affect(e.g., happiness) and low negative affect (e.g., anger). However, Juhl et al. (2017) proposed that thereare some situations characterized by negative affect that can be good for well-being because they alsohelp fulfil basic psychological needs (e.g., meaning in life, self-esteem, and social connectedness).Further, they propose a list of situations typically associated with negative affect that can fulfilpsychological needs and summarized their claims in the Affectively-Negative Need-Fulfilment Model.One potential affectively-negative, yet need-fulfilling, situation is 'Passion for Social Causes and Beliefs'.This broadly defined situation includes social movements, collective action, protests, andreligious/political beliefs. Passion in such contexts can manifest in anger and frustration. However, thesesituations may allow people to affirm their beliefs (meeting the need for meaning), take the moral highground (meeting the need for self-esteem), and stand in solidarity with others (meeting the need forsocial connectedness).No research has directly tested this model. In a series of studies, I will test (1) whether passion for socialcauses is indeed a situation that is simultaneously characterized by negative affect and by the fulfilmentof the needs for meaning, self-esteem, and social connectedness, (2) whether people willingly placethemselves in such affectively-negative situations as a way to meet these needs and (3) whether suchnegative situations buffer the negative psychology impact of threats to these needs.