The Association of Embracing with Daily Mood and General Life Satisfaction: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.
Depression
Ecological momentary assessment
Embracing
Loneliness
Social touch
Journal
Journal of nonverbal behavior
ISSN: 0191-5886
Titre abrégé: J Nonverbal Behav
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8003418
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2022
2022
Historique:
accepted:
02
05
2022
pubmed:
16
8
2022
medline:
16
8
2022
entrez:
15
8
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
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. The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10919-022-00411-8.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35967989
doi: 10.1007/s10919-022-00411-8
pii: 411
pmc: PMC9362016
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
519-536Informations de copyright
© The Author(s) 2022.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Conflict of InterestThe authors declare no conflict of interest.
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