Social anxiety and romantic relationships: The costs and benefits of negative emotion expression are context-dependent
Social anxiety and romantic relationships: The costs and benefits of negative emotion expression are context-dependent
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DOI：
10.1016/j.janxdis.2006.08.007
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发表时间：
2007-01-01
影响因子：
10.3
通讯作者：
Han, Susan
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作者：
Kashdan, Todd B.;Volkmann, Jeffrey R.;Han, Susan
总体而言，表达情绪是有益的，而抑制情绪是有个人和社会代价的。然而，为了发挥社交功能，有些情况下，情绪会被策略性地抑制。我们考察了社交焦虑是否影响了情感表达何时以及如何影响了现有恋爱关系中的人际关系亲密度。对于社交焦虑程度较高的人来说，抑制负面情绪的表达被认为是为了保护浪漫关系及其好处。我们研究了社交焦虑和情绪表达是否在12周的时间里相互作用来预测浪漫关系亲密程度的预期变化。对于社交焦虑程度较低的人，当负面情绪被公开表达时，随着时间的推移，关系的亲密性会增强，而那些更有可能抑制情绪的人的关系会恶化。对于社交焦虑程度更高的人来说，情况正好相反，对于那些更有可能抑制负面情绪的人来说，随着时间的推移，关系的亲密性会增强。相关的社交焦虑研究发现，随着时间的推移，期望的亲密感和实际的亲密感之间存在差异。这一发现与抑郁症状无关。这些结果表明，情绪表达的成本和收益受到一个人的社交焦虑程度的影响。(C)2006爱思唯尔有限公司。保留所有权利。
In general, expressing emotions is beneficial and withholding emotions has personal and social costs. Yet, to serve social functions there are situations when emotions are withheld strategically. We examined whether social anxiety influenced when and how emotion expressiveness influences interpersonal closeness in existing romantic relationships. For people with greater social anxiety, withholding the expression of negative emotions was proposed to preserve romantic relationships and their benefits. We examined whether social anxiety and emotion expressiveness interacted to predict prospective changes in romantic relationship closeness over a 12-week period. For people with less social anxiety, relationship closeness was enhanced over time when negative emotions were openly expressed whereas relationship deterioration was found for those more likely to withhold emotions. The reverse pattern was found for people with greater social anxiety such that relationship closeness was enhanced over time for those more likely to withhold negative emotions. Related social anxiety findings were found for discrepancies between desired and actual feelings of closeness over time. Findings were not attributable to depressive symptoms. These results suggest that the costs and benefits of emotion expression are influenced by a person's degree of social anxiety. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.