Individual differences in cognitive reappraisal: Experiential and physiological responses to an anger provocation
Individual differences in cognitive reappraisal: Experiential and physiological responses to an anger provocation
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2007.03.017
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发表时间：
2007-11-01
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3
通讯作者：
Gross, James J.
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作者：
Mauss, Iris B.;Cook, Crystal L.;Gross, James J.
有效的情绪调节被广泛认为是健康适应的关键。然而，关于什么是有效的情绪调节，仍然存在相当大的不确定性。一个有前途的情绪调节策略是认知重新评价，它涉及抑制情绪事件，以减少其情绪影响。这种策略是有用的，因为它似乎使个人能够下调负面情绪，而不需要与其他形式的情绪调节相关的生理成本。然而，目前还不清楚，是否在使用重新评价的个体差异与经验和生理反应的愤怒诱导的情况。为了验证这个问题，在实验室中，让重新评价能力高或低的个体生气，同时评估情绪体验和心血管反应。结果表明，与低重评者相比，高重评者在情绪体验和心血管反应方面具有更好的适应性。具体而言，在基线和激发期，高重新评估者报告较少的愤怒，较少的负面情绪和更多的积极情绪，表现出更大的心输出量和心室收缩力，以及更小的总外周阻力。这些发现表明，重新评估者成功地下调了负面情绪，即使是在愤怒等强烈负面情绪的背景下。(c)2007 Elsevier B.V.保留所有权利。
Effective emotion regulation is widely seen as vital for healthy adaptation. There remains considerable uncertainty, however, as to what constitutes effective emotion regulation. One promising emotion regulation strategy is cognitive reappraisal, which involves refraining emotional events so as to decrease their emotional impact. This strategy is useful because it seems to enable individuals to down-regulate negative feelings without the physiological costs that are associated with other forms of emotion regulation. It remains unknown, however, whether individual differences in the use of reappraisal are associated with experiential and physiological responses to anger-inducing situations. To examine this question, individuals either high or low in reappraisal were made angry in the laboratory while emotion experience and cardiovascular responses were assessed. Results indicated that compared to low reappraisers, high reappraisers had a more adaptive profile of emotion experience and cardiovascular responding. Specifically, across baseline and provocation periods, high reappraisers reported less anger, less negative emotion, and more positive emotion, showed greater cardiac output and ventricular contractility, and lesser total peripheral resistance. These findings suggest that reappraisers are successful at down-regulating negative emotions, even in the context of a potent negative emotion such as anger. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.