University of Michigan, USA.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.
Curr Opin Psychol. 2017 Oct;17:99-105. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.06.016. Epub 2017 Jul 5.
Prior evidence shows that positive and negative emotions are associated with better and worse health, respectively. However, the emotion-health relationship may be conflated since this evidence is based nearly exclusively on subjective measures of health. Here, we reviewed more recent evidence focusing on biological health and showed that the emotion-health link is more complex. First, whereas negative emotional states such as negative affect and anger expression are inversely linked to biological health among Americans, this relationship is either not present (negative affect) or even reversed (anger expression) for Japanese. Second, whereas a meaningfulness aspect of happiness (eudaimonia) is linked consistently to better biological health, the relationship between its pleasantness aspect (hedonia) and biological health is uncertain. Moreover, a contextualized sense of meaningfulness in a work setting is strongly associated with better biological health among Japanese. Altogether, the initial evidence reviewed here underscores a need to conceptualize the biological dynamics of health and wellbeing as inherently intertwined with socio-cultural processes.
先前的证据表明，积极和消极的情绪分别与更好和更差的健康状况相关。然而，由于这些证据几乎完全基于健康的主观衡量标准，因此情绪与健康的关系可能会混淆。在这里，我们回顾了最近的更多证据，这些证据主要集中在生物健康方面，表明情绪与健康的联系更加复杂。首先，虽然美国人的负面情绪状态（如消极情绪和愤怒表达）与生物健康呈负相关，但这种关系在日本人中并不存在（消极情绪），甚至相反（愤怒表达）。其次，幸福感的意义方面（eudaimonia）与更好的生物健康始终相关，但幸福感的愉悦方面（hedonia）与生物健康的关系则不确定。此外，在工作环境中，有意义的感觉与日本人更好的生物健康密切相关。总之，这里回顾的初步证据强调了需要将健康和幸福感的生物学动态概念化为与社会文化过程内在交织在一起的必要性。
