The Unexpected Way ToReduce Negative Emotions
减少负面情绪的惊喜方法
Despite the hardshipsof ageing, people generally feel happier as they get older.
尽管衰老十分艰难，但随着年龄增长，人们通常会感到更快乐。
The secret to gettinghappier with age is learning acceptance, research suggests.
研究表明，随着年龄增长而变得更快乐的秘诀是学会接受。
Part of acceptance islearning to engage with negative emotions, which might seem an odd way ofreducing them.
接受是学会处理负面情绪，这似乎是一种减少负面情绪的不寻常方式。
However, older peopleexperienced less anger and negative emotions, the study found.
然而，研究发现，老年人经历的愤怒和负面情绪较少。
At the same time, theyalso showed increase levels of acceptance.
与此同时，他们的接受程度也有所提高。
Acceptance, is notabout giving up, but about engaging with emotions, both positive and negative.
接受，不是放弃，而是应对积极和消极的情绪。
As the study’s authorsexplain the…
正如该研究的作者所解释的那样…
“…goal of acceptance isnot to reduce negative affect but rather to change one’s relationship withnegative affect by engaging with all emotional experiences (including negativeones) in a nonjudgmental way.”
“…接受的目的不是减少负面影响，而是通过非评判的方式应对所有情感体验（包括负面体验），从而改变个人与负面影响的关系。”
The conclusions comefrom a study of 340 people aged 21-73 years-old.
研究人员对340名年龄在21岁至73岁之间的人进行了调查，得出以上结论。
All were asked how theyfelt day-by-day and the extent to which they accepted their emotions.
所有人都被问及他们每天的感受，以及他们多大程度接受了自己的情绪。
The study’s authorswrite:
该研究的作者写道：
“Although aging isassociated with some deterioration and hardship, ironically, people tend tofeel better as they age.
尽管衰老与一些恶化和艰难有关，但具有讽刺意味的是，随着年龄的增长，人们往往会感觉更好。
[…]
Results demonstratedthat feelings of anger and anxiety decreased with increasing age but sadnessdid not.
结果表明，愤怒和焦虑感会随着年龄的增长而减少，而悲伤相反。
Further, increasing agewas associated with increased acceptance of negative emotional experiences.”
此外，年龄越大，人们对负面情绪经历的接受程度越高。”
How does acceptancework?
如何学会接受？
The study’s authorexplain how engaging with negative emotions can be beneficial:
该研究的作者解释了如何处理负面情绪才是有益的：
“Acceptance is thoughtto decrease negative affect by two related processes: (a) presentingopportunities to acknowledge and understand negative emotions, which promotesself-compassion as well as psychological and behavioral flexibility, and (b)reducing rumination, negative cognitions, and metaemotions.
“接受被认为可以通过两个相关的过程来减少负面影响：(a)提供承认和理解消极情绪的机会，从而促进自我同情以及心理和行为的灵活性，(b) 减少沉思、消极认知和元情感。
Although engaging withnegative emotions may initially increase one’s self-reported experience ofthese emotions approaching negative emotions in a nonevaluative way diffusesthese emotions relatively quickly.”
尽管参与到消极情绪中最初可能会增加一个人对这些情绪的自述体验，并以一种非评价的方式接近消极情绪会相对较快扩散这些情绪。”
The study was publishedin Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Shallcross et al., ).
该研究发表在《人格与社会心理学杂志》(Shallcrosset al.， )上。
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