Social power may be associated with health through positive emotion.

IF 1.9 4区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Journal of General Psychology Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Epub Date: 2023-09-25 DOI:10.1080/00221309.2023.2261135

Tyler N Livingston, Caroline Cummings, Jonathan Singer

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Abstract

Increased social power-defined as one's influence on another's behavior-guides activation of one's behavioral activation system which, in turn, elicits greater positive emotion. Positive emotion has also been linked to greater health. The current research assessed whether power and positive emotion are related to health. In Study 1, participants (N = 403; M_age = 48.33 years) wrote a narrative about a time in which they felt powerful or powerless. Greater self-reported feelings of power, concurrent with more frequent use of positive emotional words within the narrative, was associated with fewer references to health within the narrative. In Study 2, participants (N = 401; M_age = 33.05 years) primed with the concept of power (vs. powerlessness) reported greater health competency through enhanced positive emotion. Findings provided preliminary data supporting the continued study of power to better understand the link between positive emotion and health. Future research should elucidate the long-term relationships between these variables to examine whether increased power can produce downstream positive effects on health and health behavior.

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社会力量可能通过积极的情绪与健康联系在一起。

社会力量的增加被定义为一个人对另一个人行为的影响，引导一个人行为激活系统的激活，进而引发更积极的情绪。积极的情绪也与更健康有关。目前的研究评估了力量和积极情绪是否与健康有关。在研究1中，参与者（N = 403；Mage=48.33 年）写了一篇关于他们感到强大或无力的时代的故事。自我报告的权力感更强，同时在叙事中更频繁地使用积极的情感词汇，与叙事中较少提及健康有关。在研究2中，参与者（N = 401；Mage=33.05 年）通过增强积极情绪，报告了更高的健康能力。研究结果为继续研究权力提供了初步数据，以更好地理解积极情绪与健康之间的联系。未来的研究应该阐明这些变量之间的长期关系，以检验功率的增加是否会对健康和健康行为产生下游的积极影响。

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Journal of General Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of General Psychology publishes human and animal research reflecting various methodological approaches in all areas of experimental psychology. It covers traditional topics such as physiological and comparative psychology, sensation, perception, learning, and motivation, as well as more diverse topics such as cognition, memory, language, aging, and substance abuse, or mathematical, statistical, methodological, and other theoretical investigations. The journal especially features studies that establish functional relationships, involve a series of integrated experiments, or contribute to the development of new theoretical insights or practical applications.