Relational antecedents of appraised problem-focused coping potential and its associated emotions
Relational antecedents of appraised problem-focused coping potential and its associated emotions
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评估以问题为中心的应对潜力及其相关情绪的关系前因
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发表时间：
2009
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通讯作者：
L. D. Kirby
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作者：
Craig A. Smith;L. D. Kirby
本研究考察了评估的关系模型，该模型具体说明了评估的以问题为中心的应对潜力的情景和性格因素，其本身是希望/挑战和听天由命情绪的假设先行因素。这种评估的假设关系前因在一个准实验中进行了检验，在这个实验中，不同自我感知和客观评估的数学能力的个体试图解决难度被操纵的数学问题。关键测试问题的结果与预测基本一致：在困难但不容易的条件下，数学能力的提高通常与对以问题为中心的应对能力的评估增加、希望/挑战增加、辞职减少以及解决问题的可能性增加有关。然而，对于能力最强的参与者来说，关注问题的应对潜力、希望/挑战以及解决问题的可能性都低于他们的能力水平，而辞职的可能性比他们的能力水平所预测的要高。对于关注情绪的应对潜力或其理论上与焦虑相关的情绪的评估，没有观察到类似的结果，这为被检查的模型提供了判别有效性的证据。中介分析的结果支持这样的假设，即准实验设计对希望/挑战和辞职的影响是通过它们对评估的问题焦点应对潜力的影响来中介的，从而支持了评估在情绪激发中起因果作用的命题。
The present study examined a relational model of appraisal that specifies the situational and dispositional antecedents of appraised problem-focused coping potential, itself a hypothesised antecedent of the emotions of hope/challenge and resignation. The hypothesised relational antecedents of this appraisal were tested in a quasi-experiment in which individuals varying in self-perceived and objectively assessed math ability attempted to solve math problems on which difficulty was manipulated. Findings for the critical test problem largely conformed to predictions: Under difficult conditions, but not easy ones, increasing math ability was generally associated with elevated appraisals of problem-focused coping potential, increased hope/challenge, reduced resignation, and increased likelihood of solving the problem. However, problem-focused coping potential, hope/challenge, and the likelihood of solving the problem were all lower, and resignation was higher, for the highest ability participants, than would be predicted from their ability levels. Comparable findings were not observed for appraisals of emotion-focused coping potential or its theoretically associated emotion of anxiety, providing evidence of discriminant validity for the examined model. The results of a mediational analysis supported the hypothesis that the effects of the quasi-experimental design on hope/challenge and resignation were mediated by their effects on appraised problem-focused coping potential, lending support to the proposition that appraisals play a causal role in emotion elicitation.
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7.6
作者：
LEVENSON, RW;GOTTMAN, JM
通讯作者：
GOTTMAN, JM