Packheiser Julian, Malek Imke Marlene, Reichart Jacqueline Sophia, Katona Laura, Luhmann Maike, Ocklenburg Sebastian
Social Brain Lab, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Faculty of Psychology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Biopsychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
J Nonverbal Behav. 2022;46(4):519-536. doi: 10.1007/s10919-022-00411-8. Epub 2022 Aug 4.
Embracing has several positive health effects, such as lowering blood pressure and decreasing infection risk. However, its association with general life satisfaction and daily mood has not been researched in detail. Here, we used a smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment (EMA) approach to monitor the daily number of embraces and daily mood in a sample of 94 adults over the course of seven days. We found that embracing frequency differed slightly over the week, with embracing occurring more frequently on weekends than on weekdays. We also found that higher daily embracing frequencies were associated with better daily mood using multilevel modeling. Only singles benefitted from increases in average embracing regarding their life satisfaction, whereas individuals in a relationship were unaffected by their embracing tendencies. Although our results are strictly correlational and do not indicate any direction or causality, embraces may be important for daily mood and general life satisfaction, but their efficacy seems to depend on relationship status.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10919-022-00411-8.
拥抱有多种积极的健康影响，比如降低血压和减少感染风险。然而，其与总体生活满意度和日常情绪的关联尚未得到详细研究。在此，我们采用基于智能手机的生态瞬时评估（EMA）方法，在7天时间里监测了94名成年人样本中的每日拥抱次数和日常情绪。我们发现，一周内拥抱频率略有差异，周末的拥抱频率比工作日更高。我们还通过多水平建模发现，更高的每日拥抱频率与更好的日常情绪相关。只有单身人士在平均拥抱次数增加时，其生活满意度有所提升，而处于恋爱关系中的人则不受其拥抱倾向的影响。尽管我们的结果严格来说只是相关性的，并未表明任何方向或因果关系，但拥抱可能对日常情绪和总体生活满意度很重要，但其效果似乎取决于恋爱状况。
网络版包含可在10.1007/s10919-022-00411-8获取的补充材料。
