Beliefs about emotion: implications for avoidance-based emotion regulation and psychological health
Beliefs about emotion: implications for avoidance-based emotion regulation and psychological health
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10.1080/02699931.2017.1353485
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发表时间：
2018-01-01
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2.6
通讯作者：
Gross, James J.
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作者：
De Castella, Krista;Platow, Michael J.;Gross, James J.
人们对自己控制情绪能力的信念可以预测一系列重要的心理结果。然而，尚不清楚这些信念是否起着因果作用，如果是的话，为什么会这样。在目前的研究中，我们测试了基于回避的情绪调节是否解释了信念和心理结果之间的联系。在研究1（N=112）中，对情绪缺乏控制的感知预测了较差的心理健康结果（自我报告的回避增加，幸福感降低和临床症状水平升高），回避策略间接解释了情绪信念和心理健康之间的联系。在研究2（N=101）中，我们通过实验操纵参与者的情绪信念，引导参与者相信他们在控制情绪方面挣扎（低调节自我效能）或不挣扎（高调节自我效能）。在低自我调节效能条件下的参与者报告说，在接下来的一个月里，他们更倾向于采取回避策略，并且更有可能避免寻求心理帮助。当被问及是否愿意参与后续研究时，这些参与者也更有可能表现出基于回避的情绪调节。这些发现提供了初步的证据，情绪信念的因果作用，在回避为基础的情绪调节，并记录其对心理健康相关的结果的影响。
People's beliefs about their ability to control their emotions predict a range of important psychological outcomes. It is not clear, however, whether these beliefs are playing a causal role, and if so, why this might be. In the current research, we tested whether avoidance-based emotion regulation explains the link between beliefs and psychological outcomes. In Study 1 (N=112), a perceived lack of control over emotions predicted poorer psychological health outcomes (increased self-reported avoidance, lower well-being, and higher levels of clinical symptoms), and avoidance strategies indirectly explained these links between emotion beliefs andpsychological health. In Study 2 (N=101), we experimentally manipulated participants' emotion beliefs by leading participants to believe that they struggled (low regulatory self-efficacy) or did not struggle (high regulatory self-efficacy) with controlling their emotions. Participants in the low regulatory self-efficacy condition reported increased intentions to engage in avoidance strategies over the next month and were more likely to avoid seeking psychological help. When asked if they would participate in follow-up studies, these participants were also more likely to display avoidance-based emotion regulation. These findings provide initial evidence for the causal role of emotion beliefs in avoidance-based emotion regulation, and document their impact on psychological health-related outcomes.