Some Implications of Believing That Happiness Involves the Absence of Pain: Negative Hedonic Beliefs Exacerbate the Effects of Stress on Well-Being

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• 作者：Ethan A. McMahan ; Incheol Choi ; Yuri Kwon ; Jongan Choi…
• 关键词：Happiness ; Well ; being ; Beliefs ; Emotion ; Stress
• 刊名：Journal of Happiness Studies
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：17
• 期：6
• 页码：2569-2593
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• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Quality of Life Research; Personality and Social Psychology; Economics, general; Quality of Life Research; Philosophy, general; Positive Psychology;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-7780
• 卷排序：17

文摘

One common belief about happiness, espoused to varying degrees by both researchers and laypeople alike, is that happiness involves a lack of negative hedonic experiences. In the current investigation, we examine whether individual differences in endorsement of this belief, termed negative hedonic belief, moderate the effects of stress on happiness and several indicators of well-being. It was predicted that because stress involves the experience of negative hedonic states, increased stress would be more robustly associated with decreased happiness and well-being among those endorsing negative hedonic beliefs. Results from three studies utilizing both retrospective and prospective research designs generally support this prediction and suggest that endorsing the belief that happiness involves a lack of negative hedonic experiences is associated with more negative outcomes in response to the experience of heightened life stress.