积极体验与心理健康

Positive Experience and Mental Health

积极体验即积极情绪体验,是积极心理学的研究重心。心理学以往的研究过多地注重对消极情绪的研究,以期通过对心理疾病的解决来实现心理健康,而事实并非如此。因为,心理健康包括两个方面:没有心理疾病;具有积极乐观向上的心态。前者是消极情绪所致,后者只有在体验到积极情绪时才产生。已有的研究证明,积极情绪体验与消极情绪体验的生理机制不同,因此,消极情绪体验的减少并不意味着积极情绪体验的增加,二者是相互独立的。

Positive psychology focuses on positive experience that is also named positive emotional experience. Psychology hoped to achieve mental health by researching pathological emotion in the past , but in fact , this objective have not been realized. Mental health includes two parts： One is no mental disease; the other is positive optimistic psychology. The former is caused by pathological emotion , the latter only comes into being when positive emotion is being experienced. It has been proved that physiological processes of positive emotion and pathological emotion are different. So reducing pathological emotion does not mean increasing positive emotion. They stand alone each other.