Humorous Coping and Serious Reappraisal: Short-Term and Longer-Term Effects
Humorous Coping and Serious Reappraisal: Short-Term and Longer-Term Effects
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10.5964/ejop.v10i3.730
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2014-08
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Andrea C. Samson;Alana Glassco;Ihno A. Lee;J. Gross
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Andrea C. Samson;Alana Glassco;Ihno A. Lee;J. Gross
两篇文献讨论了无益的负面情绪的管理，一篇侧重于通过幽默应对，另一篇侧重于情绪调节。在本研究中，我们直接比较了幽默应对与传统（严肃）重新评估。我们预计，从短期和长期来看，幽默的应对方式比严肃的重新评估更有效。 57 名参与者要么采用幽默的应对方式，要么严肃地重新评估，要么在观看负面图片时自然地参与，然后评估他们的积极和消极情绪反应。一周后，参与者再次查看这些照片并对其进行评分。在短期内，虽然幽默的应对比严肃的重新评估更困难，但它在下调消极情绪和上调积极情绪方面更有效。从长远来看，这两种策略都对积极情绪产生有益影响，而幽默应对比严肃的重新评估在下调消极情绪方面更有益。这是第一项凭经验证明在负面刺激引发的情绪背景下，幽默应对与严肃重新评估相比的短期和长期有益影响的研究。
The management of unhelpful negative emotions has been addressed by two literatures, one focused on coping via humor, and the other focused on emotion regulation. In the present study, we directly compared humorous coping with conventional (serious) reappraisal. We expected humorous coping to be more effective than serious reappraisal in the short and longer term. Fifty-seven participants used either humorous coping, serious reappraisal, or attended naturally while viewing negative pictures and then rated their positive and negative emotional responses. One week later, participants viewed and rated the pictures again. In the short-term, while humorous coping was more difficult than serious reappraisal, it was more effective in down-regulating negative and up-regulating positive emotions. In the longer-term, both strategies had beneficial effects on positive emotions while humorous coping was more beneficial than serious reappraisal in down-regulating negative emotions. This is the first study that empirically shows short and longer-term beneficial effects of humorous coping versus serious reappraisal in the context of emotions elicited by negative stimuli.