par Quoidbach, Jordi;Gruber, June;Mikolajczak, Moïra;Kogan, Alexsandr;Kotsou, Ilios ;Norton, Michael M.I.
Référence Journal of experimental psychology. General, 143, 6, page (2057-2065)
Publication Publié, 2014
Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : Bridging psychological research exploring emotional complexity and research in the natural sciences on the measurement of biodiversity, we introduce-and demonstrate the benefits of-emodiversity: the variety and relative abundance of the emotions that humans experience. Two cross-sectional studies across more than 37,000 respondents demonstrate that emodiversity is an independent predictor of mental and physical health-such as decreased depression and doctor's visits- over and above mean levels of positive and negative emotion. These results remained robust after controlling for gender, age, and the 5 main dimensions of personality. Emodiversity is a practically important and previously unidentified metric for assessing the health of the human emotional ecosystem.