Emotion vocabulary reflects state of well-being, study suggests – Medical Xpress

Vocabulary that one uses to describe their emotions is an indicator of mental and physical health and overall well-being, according to an analysis led by a scientist at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and published today in Nature Communications. A larger negative emotion vocabularyor different ways to describe similar feelingscorrelates with more psychological distress and poorer physical health, while a larger positive emotion vocabulary correlates with better well-being and ph…

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