Mixed emotional experience is associated with and precedes improvements in psychological well-being |
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Authors: | Adler Jonathan M Hershfield Hal E |
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Institution: | Department of Psychology, Franklin W Olin College of Engineering, Needham, Massachusetts, United States of America. jadler@olin.edu |
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Abstract: | BackgroundThe relationships between positive and negative emotional experience and physical and psychological well-being have been well-documented. The present study examines the prospective positive relationship between concurrent positive and negative emotional experience and psychological well-being in the context of psychotherapy.Methods47 adults undergoing psychotherapy completed measures of psychological well-being and wrote private narratives that were coded by trained raters for emotional content.ResultsThe specific concurrent experience of happiness and sadness was associated with improvements in psychological well-being above and beyond the impact of the passage of time, personality traits, or the independent effects of happiness and sadness. Changes in mixed emotional experience preceded improvements in well-being.ConclusionsExperiencing happiness alongside sadness in psychotherapy may be a harbinger of improvement in psychological well-being. |
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