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Emotional Capital and the Benefits for Personal Well-being

其他書名	How Positive Moments with You Might Help Me Too
出版	University of Texas, 2019
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=5PclzAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Couples share many different types of experiences together, but recent research has begun to focus on their ordinary shared positive moments. The theory of emotional capital suggests that the accumulation of positive experiences shared between partners can buffer couples' from the harmful impact relationship threats can have on their marital happiness. Though prior work has demonstrated the benefits of emotional capital for relationship well-being, less attention has been given to the potential benefits for individual well-being. Therefore, the first goal of the current project was to extend existing theories of emotional capital to identify whether every day shared positive moments with a partner may similarly buffer the individuals from their personal life challenges experienced outside their relationship. In two daily diary studies, I tested whether emotional capital is associated with reduced reactivity to both daily personal stress and chronic life stress over time. The second goal of the present work was to investigate an alternative way in which emotional capital may benefit personal wellbeing. Specifically, I tested whether emotional capital is associated with better mental health indirectly through increasing perceptions of partner support. Supporting my predictions, emotional capital moderated the association between spouses' daily stress and daily mood (Study 1a). In other words, emotional capital was associated with reduced reactivity to personal daily stressors. Contrary to hypotheses, however, emotional capital did not buffer individuals from their chronic stressors (Study 1b) and did not predict better prospective mental health directly or indirectly through increased perceptions of support (Study 2). These findings suggest that emotional capital can have important benefits for personal well-being; however, those benefits may only extend to spouses' immediate context and daily mental health