Howell Jennifer L, Sweeny Kate
Department of Psychology, Ohio University, 200 Porter Hall, Athens, OH, 45701, USA.
University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA.
J Behav Med. 2016 Aug;39(4):652-64. doi: 10.1007/s10865-016-9729-7. Epub 2016 Mar 11.
The present study examined the possibility that waiting is bad for one's subjective health. Specifically, we examined longitudinal trends in the self-reported health, self-reported sleep disruption, distress, and emotion regulation strategies of law school graduates waiting for their bar exam results. Multilevel analyses suggest that waiting was particularly detrimental to participants' self-reported health and sleep disruption at the beginning and end of the waiting period. Moreover, distress and most emotion regulation efforts were associated with poorer subjective health on average, and personal increases in distress and emotion regulation were largely associated with personal increases in poor self-reported health and sleep disruption. Our results suggest that waiting periods can take a toll on subjective health and that individual and temporal variations in distress and emotion regulation efforts are associated with these health trajectories.
本研究探讨了等待对个人主观健康不利的可能性。具体而言，我们研究了等待律师资格考试结果的法学院毕业生自我报告的健康状况、自我报告的睡眠障碍、痛苦程度和情绪调节策略的纵向趋势。多层次分析表明，在等待期开始和结束时，等待对参与者自我报告的健康状况和睡眠障碍尤其有害。此外，平均而言，痛苦和大多数情绪调节努力与较差的主观健康状况相关，痛苦和情绪调节的个人增加在很大程度上与自我报告的健康状况不佳和睡眠障碍的个人增加相关。我们的结果表明，等待期会对主观健康产生影响，痛苦和情绪调节努力的个体及时间差异与这些健康轨迹相关。
