![]() Recent research found that people preferred using reappraisal and distraction to achieve hedonic goals and suppression to achieve instrumental goals (English, Lee, John, & Gross, 2016). In contrast, rumination (repetitively thinking about one's negative feelings and their origins) does not confer hedonic benefits (Denson, Moulds, & Grisham, 2012) and can interfere with the achievement of problem-solving and cognitive performance goals (Lyubomirsky, Tucker, Caldwell, & Berg, 1999). Reappraisal (changing one's thoughts about a situation) reduces negative feelings, provided it is initiated relatively early (Sheppes & Gross, 2011), and it can facilitate performance when directly targeting performance-related stress (Jamieson, Peters, Greenwood, & Altose, 2016). For example, shifting attention away from an unpleasant event to neutral or positive thoughts or activities provides rapid relief of negative affective states and therefore should satisfy hedonic motives (Sheppes & Meiran, 2007). ![]() Emotion regulation motives might also determine the strategies we use to regulate our emotions because the use of certain strategies might lead more readily to the achievement of hedonic or instrumental goals. Motives underlying emotion regulation can be hedonic (to feel pleasure and avoid pain) or instrumental (e.g., to promote social relationships or facilitate task performance) and people sometimes choose to experience negative affective states in order to achieve instrumental outcomes (Tamir, 2015). In sum, the findings suggest that hedonic and eudaimonic motives may support different pathways to well-being, with eudaimonic motives and down-regulation of negative emotions playing a stronger role in well-being.Įmotion regulation-changing or maintaining one's emotions-is crucial for well-being (DeSteno, Gross, & Kubzansky, 2013). In addition, these associations appeared to be driven by people's choices for dysfunctional, rather than functional, strategies. Both types of motives and emotion regulation were associated with well-being, but eudaimonic motives and down-regulation of negative emotions were more strongly predictive of well-being than hedonic motives and up-regulation of positive emotions were. Eudaimonic motives correlated positively with down-regulation of negative emotions whereas hedonic motives correlated positively, but weakly, with up-regulation of positive emotions. Participants completed measures assessing hedonic and eudaimonic motives, down-regulation of positive emotions and up-regulation of negative emotions, and well-being. The current study examined whether hedonic and eudaimonic motives are associated with the strategies people choose to regulate their positive and negative emotions, which, in turn, predict well-being. ![]() The pursuit of hedonic and eudaimonic activities is related to well-being. ![]()
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