Hope as a meaningful emotion: Hope, positive affect, and meaning in life.

IF 3.6 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

Emotion Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-20 DOI:10.1037/emo0001513

Megan E Edwards, Jordan A Booker, Kevin Cook, Miao Miao, Yiqun Gan, Laura A King

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Abstract

Six studies (combined N = 2,312) examined the emotion of hope as a unique and robust predictor of meaning in life. In cross-sectional data (Studies 1-2), affective hope predicted greater meaning, controlling for other positive affect, and agency/pathways, in the majority of White U.S. samples. Utilizing a daily diary (Study 3), daily hope predicted daily meaning independent of positive emotions, in a Chinese sample. A five-wave longitudinal design (Study 4) replicated Study 3, demonstrating that hope was the only positive emotion to predict meaning in life in future waves. Finally, two experiments tested whether hopeful feelings would explain the effects of cheerful (vs. sadness) mood inductions (Study 5) or hopeful (vs. hopeless) mood inductions (Study 6) on meaning in life. Although in neither study did manipulations directly affect meaning in life, hopeful feelings showed significant indirect effects explaining the condition effects on meaning in life. The present studies support that feeling hopeful contributes to the sense that life is meaningful, controlling for other positive feelings. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

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希望是一种有意义的情感：希望、积极情绪和人生意义。

六项研究（合计N = 2312）检验了希望的情绪作为生活意义的独特而有力的预测因素。在横断面数据（研究1-2）中，在大多数美国白人样本中，情感希望预测了更大的意义，控制了其他积极情感和代理/途径。利用每日日记（研究3），在一个中国样本中，每日希望预测独立于积极情绪的每日意义。五波纵向设计（研究4）重复了研究3，表明希望是预测未来波中生活意义的唯一积极情绪。最后，两个实验测试了希望的感觉是否可以解释快乐（vs.悲伤）情绪诱导（研究5）或希望（vs.绝望）情绪诱导（研究6）对生活意义的影响。尽管在两项研究中，操作都没有直接影响生活意义，但希望情绪显示出显著的间接影响，解释了条件对生活意义的影响。目前的研究表明，充满希望的感觉有助于让人觉得生活是有意义的，并控制着其他积极的感觉。（PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA，版权所有）。

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Emotion PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-

CiteScore

8.40

自引率

7.10%

发文量

325

审稿时长

8 weeks

期刊介绍： Emotion publishes significant contributions to the study of emotion from a wide range of theoretical traditions and research domains. The journal includes articles that advance knowledge and theory about all aspects of emotional processes, including reports of substantial empirical studies, scholarly reviews, and major theoretical articles. Submissions from all domains of emotion research are encouraged, including studies focusing on cultural, social, temperament and personality, cognitive, developmental, health, or biological variables that affect or are affected by emotional functioning. Both laboratory and field studies are appropriate for the journal, as are neuroimaging studies of emotional processes.