This Mood Is Familiar and I Don't Deserve to Feel Better Anyway: Mechanisms Underlying Self-Esteem Differences in Motivation to Repair Sad Moods
This Mood Is Familiar and I Don't Deserve to Feel Better Anyway: Mechanisms Underlying Self-Esteem Differences in Motivation to Repair Sad Moods
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DOI：
10.1037/a0012881
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发表时间：
2009-02-01
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Whittington, Elizabeth J.
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作者：
Wood, Joanne V.;Heimpel, Sara A.;Whittington, Elizabeth J.
为什么低自尊(LSE)的人比高自尊(HSE)的人更没有动力来改善悲伤的情绪？这项研究考察了个人责任感是否会导致这种差异。对大学生参与者进行的四个实验涉及悲伤情绪诱导，或操纵个人应得，或两者兼而有之。结果表明：(A)LSE比HSE更不值得获得积极的结果和积极的情绪，(B)个人应得的感觉会因情况而异，并通过提醒社会拒绝和个人缺陷而降低，以及(C)相对不值得的感觉会抑制LSE的动机，但不会抑制HSE修复悲伤情绪的动机。这些结果对情绪调节、自尊和社会公平的研究具有一定的参考价值。
Why are people with low self-esteem (LSE) less motivated than people with high self-esteem (HSE) to improve sad moods? The present research examined whether feelings of personal deservingness contribute to this difference. Four experiments with undergraduate participants involved a sad mood induction, a manipulation of personal deservingness, or both. Results suggested that (a) LSEs feel less deserving of positive outcomes and of positive moods than do HSEs, (b) feelings of personal deservingness can vary with the situation, and be lowered through reminders of social rejection and personal flaws, and (c) feeling relatively undeserving dampens LSEs', but not HSEs', motivation to repair sad moods. These results have implications for the emotion regulation, self-esteem, and social justice literatures.