The Complexities of "Minding the Gap": Perceived Discrepancies Between Values and Behavior Affect Well-Being.

ABSTRACT: Research on self-determination theory and clinical models such as acceptance and commitment therapy has shown that behaving in line with our values is a key to maintaining healthy well-being. Combining work on values and experimental studies on moral hypocrisy and well-being, we experimentally tested how behaving incongruently with values affects well-being. We hypothesized that discrepancies between how one thinks one should have behaved and how one reported one did behave would be more detrimental to well-being when the behaviors were value-expressive and motivationally coherent compared to a control condition; greater perceived gaps between how participants feel they should have acted and how they report they did act would be associated with more negative well-being outcomes; the relati

SUBMITTER: Chrystal M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6465641 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature