The Association of Embracing with Daily Mood and General Life Satisfaction: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.

IF 1.2 3区心理学 Q4 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Journal of Nonverbal Behavior Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Epub Date: 2022-08-04 DOI:10.1007/s10919-022-00411-8

Julian Packheiser, Imke Marlene Malek, Jacqueline Sophia Reichart, Laura Katona, Maike Luhmann, Sebastian Ocklenburg

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Abstract

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.

Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10919-022-00411-8.

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拥抱与日常情绪和一般生活满意度的关系:一项生态瞬时评估研究。

拥抱对健康有几个积极的影响，比如降低血压和减少感染风险。然而，它与一般生活满意度和日常情绪的关系尚未得到详细研究。在这里，我们使用一种基于智能手机的生态瞬间评估(EMA)方法来监测94名成年人在7天内每天拥抱的次数和每天的情绪。我们发现，拥抱的频率在一周内略有不同，周末拥抱的频率高于工作日。我们还发现，使用多层模型，较高的日常拥抱频率与更好的日常情绪有关。在生活满意度方面，只有单身人士从平均拥抱次数的增加中受益，而处于恋爱关系中的个人则不受拥抱倾向的影响。虽然我们的结果是严格相关的，并没有指明任何方向或因果关系，拥抱可能对日常情绪和一般生活满意度很重要，但它们的功效似乎取决于关系状态。补充信息:在线版本包含补充资料，下载地址为10.1007/s10919-022-00411-8。

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Journal of Nonverbal Behavior PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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4.80

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9.50%

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期刊介绍： Journal of Nonverbal Behavior presents peer-reviewed original theoretical and empirical research on all major areas of nonverbal behavior. Specific topics include paralanguage, proxemics, facial expressions, eye contact, face-to-face interaction, and nonverbal emotional expression, as well as other subjects which contribute to the scientific understanding of nonverbal processes and behavior.