Valdivia-Salas Sonsoles, Lombas A Sebastian, Salvador Sonia, López-Crespo Ginesa
Department of Psychology and Sociology, University of Zaragoza, Teruel, Spain.
Aragon Institute for Health Research (Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Aragón), Zaragoza, Spain.
Front Psychol. 2022 Aug 11;13:949615. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.949615. eCollection 2022.
Previous evidence has shown that excessive valuing happiness may relate to lower psychological wellbeing across cultures. Considering the lack of data with Spanish population, we examined the relation between tightly holding happiness emotion goals and subjective wellbeing in a sample of Spanish women, and explored the mediation role exerted by psychological inflexibility components (namely, cognitive fusion and experiential avoidance) in the relation between valuing happiness and subjective wellbeing. A female adult sample ( = 168) filled out measures of excessive valuing happiness, psychological inflexibility, positive affect, negative affect, and life satisfaction. Valuing happiness only showed positive total effects on negative affect and strong direct effects on both cognitive fusion and experiential avoidance. Analyses revealed the mediating roles exerted by psychological inflexibility components, with experiential avoidance leading to lower pleasure; and cognitive fusion leading to greater displeasure and lower life satisfaction. Psychological inflexibility components explained between 40 and 80% of the total effect of valuing happiness on our outcome variables. Our findings highlight the need for further research on the benefits of hedonic vs. values-based approaches to happiness.
先前的证据表明，过度重视幸福可能与不同文化背景下较低的心理健康水平有关。鉴于缺乏西班牙人群的数据，我们在一组西班牙女性样本中研究了紧紧持有幸福情感目标与主观幸福感之间的关系，并探讨了心理僵化成分（即认知融合和经验回避）在重视幸福与主观幸福感关系中所起的中介作用。一个成年女性样本（n = 168）填写了关于过度重视幸福、心理僵化、积极情绪、消极情绪和生活满意度的测量量表。重视幸福仅对消极情绪显示出正向总效应，对认知融合和经验回避均显示出强烈的直接效应。分析揭示了心理僵化成分所起的中介作用，经验回避导致愉悦感降低；认知融合导致更多的不愉悦感和更低的生活满意度。心理僵化成分解释了重视幸福对我们的结果变量总效应的40%至80%。我们的研究结果凸显了对享乐主义与基于价值观的幸福观的益处进行进一步研究的必要性。
