The psychological health benefits of accepting negative emotions and thoughts: Laboratory, diary, and longitudinal evidence.

ABSTRACT: Individuals differ in the degree to which they tend to habitually accept their emotions and thoughts without judging them-a process here referred to as habitual acceptance. Acceptance has been linked with greater psychological health, which we propose may be due to the role acceptance plays in negative emotional responses to stressors: acceptance helps keep individuals from reacting to-and thus exacerbating-their negative mental experiences. Over time, experiencing lower negative emotion should promote psychological health. To test these hypotheses, Study 1 (N = 1,003) verified that habitually accepting mental experiences broadly predicted psychological health (psychological well-being, life satisfaction, and depressive and anxiety symptoms), even when controlling for potentially related c

SUBMITTER: Ford BQ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5767148 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature