Shared emotions in shared lives: Moments of co-experienced affect, more than individually experienced affect, linked to relationship quality.
Shared emotions in shared lives: Moments of co-experienced affect, more than individually experienced affect, linked to relationship quality.
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10.1037/emo0000939
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发表时间：
2022-09
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4.2
通讯作者：
Fredrickson, Barbara L
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Brown, Casey L;Chen, Kuan-Hua;Wells, Jenna L;Otero, Marcela C;Connelly, Dyan E;Levenson, Robert W;Fredrickson, Barbara L
受集体情绪理论的启发，集体情绪理论认为，个体之间分享的情绪可以预测群体水平的品质，我们假设，互动中的共同体验情绪与关系质量有关，超过了个人体验情绪的影响。与积极共鸣理论一致，我们还假设共同经历的积极情感比共同经历的消极情感与关系质量有更强的关联性。我们在150对已婚夫妇中通过3种对话互动测试了这些假设：冲突、中性话题和愉快话题。在观看互动录像的同时，配偶们在每次对话中不断地对他们个人的情感体验进行评分。这些个体情感评分被用来分别确定积极和消极情感在每次对话中共同经历的情感和单独经历的情感的秒数。与假设一致的是，所有三个对话话题的结果都表明，共同经历的积极情绪越多，婚姻质量越高，而共同经历的负面情绪越多，婚姻质量越差。个体水平的影响因素除了共同经历的影响外，几乎没有增加解释价值。比较共同经历的积极情感和共同经历的消极情感，我们发现共同经历的积极情感通常优于共同经历的消极情感，尽管共同经历的消极情感在愉快的谈话话题中尤其具有诊断性。研究结果表明，共同经历的积极情感可能是高质量关系的一个组成部分，并突显了共同经历的情感对个人对关系质量的感知的力量。
Motivated by collective emotions theories that propose emotions shared between individuals predict group-level qualities, we hypothesized that co-experienced affect during interactions is associated with relationship quality, above and beyond the effects of individually experienced affect. Consistent with positivity resonance theory, we also hypothesized that co-experienced positive affect would have a stronger association with relationship quality than would co-experienced negative affect. We tested these hypotheses in 150 married couples across 3 conversational interactions: a conflict, a neutral topic, and a pleasant topic. Spouses continuously rated their individual affective experience during each conversation while watching video-recordings of their interactions. These individual affect ratings were used to determine, for positive and negative affect separately, the number of seconds of co-experienced affect and individually experienced affect during each conversation. In line with hypotheses, results from all 3 conversational topics suggest that more co-experienced positive affect is associated with greater marital quality, whereas more co-experienced negative affect is associated with worse marital quality. Individual level affect factors added little explanatory value beyond co-experienced affect. Comparing co-experienced positive affect and co-experienced negative affect, we found that co-experienced positive affect generally outperformed co-experienced negative affect, although co-experienced negative affect was especially diagnostic during the pleasant conversational topic. Findings suggest that co-experienced positive affect may be an integral component of high-quality relationships and highlight the power of co-experienced affect for individual perceptions of relationship quality.