Incorporating macro-social contexts into emotion research: Longitudinal associations between structural stigma and emotion processes among gay and bisexual men.
Incorporating macro-social contexts into emotion research: Longitudinal associations between structural stigma and emotion processes among gay and bisexual men.
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将宏观社会背景纳入情感研究：同性恋和双性恋男性的结构耻辱与情感过程之间的纵向关联。
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10.1037/emo0001198
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2023
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Hatzenbuehler,MarkL
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作者：
Hollinsaid,NathanL;Pachankis,JohnE;Mair,Patrick;Hatzenbuehler,MarkL
对情绪调节相关因素和预测因素的研究几乎完全集中在个体差异和即时情况上。在这里，我们考虑宏观社会背景的特征是否也可能塑造情绪调节。为了验证这一假设，我们对生活在美国269个县的502名同性恋和双性恋男性进行了纵向研究，这些县对性少数群体的污名程度各不相同。我们发现，同性恋和双性恋男性生活在更高的比例。低病耻感的国家持续报告更多的抑制，因此解释了他们在24个月内缺乏情绪清晰度的纵向增加（相对于减少）。结果在人口学特征、人际层面的耻辱（即与性取向有关的歧视）和另一种形式的社会不平等（即县级收入不平等）方面都是稳健的。这些发现表明，拓宽情绪调节研究的视野，包括宏观社会环境的特征，可能会对情绪调节的决定因素产生新的见解。
Research into correlates and predictors of emotion regulation has focused almost exclusively on individual differences and the immediate situation. Here, we consider whether features of macro-social contexts may also shape emotion regulation. To test this hypothesis, we conducted a longitudinal study of 502 gay and bisexual men living in 269 US counties that varied in the level of stigma surrounding sexual minorities. We find that gay and bisexual men living in higher-(vs. lower-) stigma counties consistently reported more suppression, which consequently explained longitudinal increases (vs. decreases) in their lack of emotional clarity over 24 months. Results were robust to demographic characteristics, stigma at the interpersonal level (ie, sexual orientation-related discrimination), and another form of social inequality (ie, county-level income inequality). These findings suggest that broadening the lens of emotion regulation research to include characteristics of the macro-social environment may yield new insights into determinants of emotion regulation.