Savoring meditation for emotional disorders: Targeting positive emotion regulation deficits.
Journal of Anxiety Disorders July 22, 2025 Tomoko Kishimoto, Ximing Hao, Jianwei Qian
Deficits in positive emotion regulation (PER) contribute to emotional disorders but are less studied than negative emotion regulation (NER). One maladaptive PER strategy, positive emotion contrast-seeking (PEC-seeking), involves sustaining negative affect to enhance later positive emotions, reinforcing anxiety and depression. This study developed and tested a savoring-based, transdiagnostic...