Embracing has several positive health effects, such as lowering blood pressure and decreasing infection risk. However, its association with general life satisfaction and daily mood has not been researched in detail. Here, we used a smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment (EMA) approach to monitor the daily number of embraces and daily mood in a sample of 94 adults over the course of seven days. We found that embracing frequency differed slightly over the week, with embracing occurring more frequently on weekends than on weekdays. We also found that higher daily embracing frequencies were associated with better daily mood using multilevel modeling. Only singles benefitted from increases in average embracing regarding their life satisfaction, whereas individuals in a relationship were unaffected by their embracing tendencies. Although our results are strictly correlational and do not indicate any direction or causality, embraces may be important for daily mood and general life satisfaction, but their efficacy seems to depend on relationship status.

拥抱有几个积极的健康影响，例如降低血压和降低感染风险。然而，它与一般生活满意度和日常情绪的关系尚未得到详细研究。在这里，我们使用基于智能手机的生态瞬时评估 (EMA) 方法来监测 7 天内 94 名成年人样本的每日拥抱次数和每日情绪。我们发现一周内的拥抱频率略有不同，周末的拥抱频率高于工作日。我们还发现，使用多级建模，较高的每日拥抱频率与更好的日常情绪相关。只有单身人士受益于生活满意度的平均拥抱，而恋爱中的个人则不受他们拥抱倾向的影响。