The upside of a bad mood

Subject: The upside of a bad mood Thu Apr 21, 2016 10:20 pm

This is going to seem like a humiliating contradiction in light of last week's column about the merits of a happy workforce but it has to be done: there's a lot of recent evidence to suggest bad moods may not be such a bad thing. The benefits might even surprise you.

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First up, it's important to say that for all the research championing the upside of an occasional frown, there's much more that advocates the downside. Bad moods, for example, have been proven to lead to emotional distress, exhaustion, disease, social dysfunction and death.

If you're not fussed by the sporadic bad mood, and instead see it as empowering and motivating, you're likely then to be the beneficiary of a number of advantages.

But here's a fascinating new discovery published this month in the academic journal Emotion: the extent to which a bad mood affects you negatively is determined by what you actually think of bad moods.

What this means is that if you view a bad mood as something nasty to be avoided, you're likely to encounter a range of psychological and physical debilitations. In contrast, if you're not fussed by the sporadic bad mood, and instead see it as empowering and motivating, you're likely then to be the beneficiary of a number of advantages.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/small-business/managing/work-in-progress/the-upside-of-a-bad-mood-20160421-goc0gj.html#ixzz46WB5JgsP

The upside of a bad mood

The upside of a bad mood

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