Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College.
Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University.
Emotion. 2023 Jun;23(4):911-924. doi: 10.1037/emo0001159. Epub 2022 Sep 1.
According to psychological flexibility theory, fully experiencing one's emotions, even when they involve negative reactions, can enhance psychological well-being. In pursuit of this possibility, procedures capable of disentangling reaction intensities from reaction durations, in response to affective images, were developed and variations of this paradigm were applied in understanding variations in happiness and adaptive behavior. Consistent with psychological flexibility theory, three studies showed that more intense emotional reactions, irrespective of valence, were associated with higher levels of well-being. Two additional studies showed that happy individuals, relative to less happy individuals, exhibited more functional approach/avoidance behavior in behavior-focused tasks. Together, the results are consistent with the idea that adaptive emotion generation systems are those that flexibly adapt emotion output to concurrent emotion-related stimulation. The program of research adds to our understanding of the relationship between emotion reactivity and well-being while highlighting specific processes through which emotion and well-being interact. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
根据心理灵活性理论，充分体验自己的情绪，即使它们涉及负面反应，也可以增强心理健康。为了探索这种可能性，开发了能够分离对情感图像的反应强度和反应持续时间的程序，并且该范式的变体被应用于理解幸福感和适应性行为的变化。与心理灵活性理论一致，三项研究表明，无论情绪是积极的还是消极的，更强烈的情绪反应与更高的幸福感水平相关。另外两项研究表明，与不那么快乐的人相比，快乐的人在以行为为中心的任务中表现出更多的功能性趋近/回避行为。总的来说，这些结果与适应性情绪产生系统是那些能够灵活地根据当前的情绪相关刺激来调整情绪输出的系统的观点是一致的。这项研究计划增加了我们对情绪反应性和幸福感之间关系的理解，同时强调了情绪和幸福感相互作用的具体过程。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2023 APA，保留所有权利）。
