Damned if you do, damned if you don't: The differential effect of expression and inhibition of anger on cardiovascular recovery in Black and White males
Damned if you do, damned if you don't: The differential effect of expression and inhibition of anger on cardiovascular recovery in Black and White males
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2007.03.022
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发表时间：
2007-11-01
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Thayer, Julian F.
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作者：
Dorr, Nancy;Brosschot, Jos F.;Thayer, Julian F.
适当调节情绪是健康的重要组成部分。应对愤怒的生理影响是一个特别有趣的话题。在一系列开创性的研究中，Hokanson发现愤怒煽动后的愤怒表达模式对血管恢复有不同的影响。这些差异效应被认为是回避反应的社会学习的结果。本研究探讨了这一假设的背景下，种族差异的心血管恢复反应愤怒煽动。24名非洲裔美国人（AA）和26名欧洲裔美国人（EA）男性参加了两次辩论，一次是种族主题，一次是非种族主题，与EA同盟。在基线、辩论期间和每次辩论后10分钟的恢复期记录心血管指标。在恢复期之前的愤怒表达被操纵，使得一半的参与者可以表达他们对邦联的愤怒，一半的参与者必须抑制他们对邦联的愤怒。结果表明，AA和EA参与者，抑制他们的愤怒延迟总外周阻力恢复。重要的是，对于其他因变量的差异恢复反应，观察到EA参与者，表达他们的愤怒恢复得更快，而AA参与者，表达他们的愤怒恢复得更慢。这些结果与Hokanson的愤怒刺激恢复的社会学习理论相一致，并对情绪调节和健康的研究具有重要意义。(c)2007 Elsevier B.V.保留所有权利。
Appropriate regulation of emotions is an important component of health. The physiological effects of coping with anger are a topic of particular interest. In a pioneering series of studies Hokanson found that the mode of anger expression following anger instigation had differential effects on vascular recovery. These differential effects were thought to be a result of social learning of avoidance responses. The present study examined this hypothesis in the context of ethnic differences in cardiovascular recovery responses to anger instigation. Twenty-four African American (AA) and 26 European American (EA) males engaged in two debates, one racially themed and one non-racially themed, with an EA confederate. Cardiovascular measures were recorded at baseline, during the debates and during 10-minute recovery periods following each debate. Anger expression preceding the recovery period was manipulated such that half the participants could express their anger toward the confederate and half had to inhibit their anger toward the confederate. Results showed that both AA and EA participants that inhibited their anger had delayed total peripheral resistance recovery. Importantly, for the other dependent variables differential recovery responses were observed such that EA participants that expressed their anger recovered more quickly whereas AA participants that expressed their anger recovered more slowly. These results are consistent with Hokanson's social learning theory of recovery from anger instigation and have important implications for research on emotion regulation and health. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.