If the party is good, you can stay longer-effects of trait hedonic capacity on hedonic quantity and performance.

IF 1.7 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

Motivation and Emotion Pub Date : 2023-05-22 DOI:10.1007/s11031-023-10021-6

Katharina Bernecker, Daniela Becker, Aiste Guobyte

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Abstract

Research suggests that people's capacity to successfully pursue hedonic goals is at least as important for well-being as trait self-control. Extending this research, we tested whether trait hedonic capacity is related to more time spent with hedonic goal pursuit (i.e., hedonic quantity) and whether this explains its positive relationship with well-being. Second, we explored whether this may come at a cost for people's performance. Results show that people with higher trait hedonic capacity do spend more time with hedonic goal pursuit (Study 1 and 2). However, hedonic quality not hedonic quantity accounts for its positive relationship with well-being. Further, people higher vs. lower in trait hedonic capacity perform equally well in their studies (Study 2) and their jobs (Study 3 and 4). Thus, trait hedonic capacity seems to allow people to invest more time into their hedonic goals in a way that does not jeopardize their academic and job performance.

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如果聚会很好，你可以停留更长时间，特质享乐能力对享乐数量和表现的影响。

研究表明，人们成功追求享乐目标的能力对幸福感的重要性至少与特质自我控制同等重要。扩展这项研究，我们测试了特质享乐能力是否与花在享乐目标追求上的更多时间（即享乐量）有关，以及这是否解释了其与幸福感的积极关系。其次，我们探讨了这是否会以人们的表现为代价。结果表明，具有较高特质享乐能力的人确实会花更多的时间追求享乐目标（研究1和2）。然而，享乐质量而非享乐数量解释了其与幸福感的正相关关系。此外，特质享乐能力较高和较低的人在学习（研究2）和工作（研究3和4）中表现同样好。因此，特质享乐能力似乎可以让人们在不影响学业和工作表现的情况下，将更多的时间投入到他们的享乐目标中。

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Motivation and Emotion Multiple-

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5.40

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4.20%

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期刊介绍： Motivation and Emotion publishes articles on human motivational and emotional phenomena that make theoretical advances by linking empirical findings to underlying processes. Submissions should focus on key problems in motivation and emotion, and, if using non-human participants, should contribute to theories concerning human behavior. Articles should be explanatory rather than merely descriptive, providing the data necessary to understand the origins of motivation and emotion, to explicate why, how, and under what conditions motivational and emotional states change, and to document that these processes are important to human functioning.A range of methodological approaches are welcome, with methodological rigor as the key criterion. Manuscripts that rely exclusively on self-report data are appropriate, but published articles tend to be those that rely on objective measures (e.g., behavioral observations, psychophysiological responses, reaction times, brain activity, and performance or achievement indicators) either singly or combination with self-report data.The journal generally does not publish scale development and validation articles. However, it is open to articles that focus on the post-validation contribution that a new measure can make. Scale development and validation work therefore may be submitted if it is used as a necessary prerequisite to follow-up studies that demonstrate the importance of the new scale in making a theoretical advance.