The Effects of Emotion Regulation Strategies when Contending with Discrimination

应对歧视时情绪调节策略的效果

• 批准号: 1552879
• 负责人: Jennifer Richeson
• 金额: $ 32.57万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-01 至 2020-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1552879&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Effects; Emotion; Regulation; Strategies; when

Discrimination is unfair negative treatment due to societal group membership, such as race, class, sexual orientation, and gender. Discrimination is a stressor that can harm mental and physical health, and opportunities for work and promotions. Previous research has found that discrimination can impair performance on cognitive tasks, which can lead to negative emotions, such as anxiety, despair, and anger. The present research examines novel approaches to regulate emotional reactions to discrimination. These approaches stem from research suggesting that reflecting on negative life events from a third-person, distanced point of view rather than from a personal, immersed point of view leads to better emotional outcomes. This complements findings with well-known models of emotion regulation, which suggest that distanced processing of emotional content lead to more positive outcomes than immersed processing. Dr. Jennifer Richeson at Yale University, examines multiple consequences of contending with experiences of group-based discrimination from a distanced versus immersed perspective. The project also tests a novel strategy to create positive emotional responses by having participants reflect on past discrimination that reveals the ways they or their group may have become stronger or benefitted from having had discrimination experiences in the past. Creating such redemption narratives about stressful events has been found to enhance well-being and may hold promise to promote well-being in the face of discrimination.The proposed work integrates research from affective, emotion regulation science, and social psychology to consider processes that give rise to the ill effects of discrimination. The research proposes that compared to holding an immersed perspective, holding a more distanced perspective enhances emotion regulation and emotional outcomes. Experiments examine the influence of different emotion-regulation strategies on emotional reactions, physiological arousal, and cognitive functioning, as well as the motivation to act on behalf of the group that has faced discrimination. The proposed seven experiments examine these dynamics among different societal groups that often face discrimination (e.g., racial/ethnic minorities, women), and an experiment examines the role of creating a redemption narrative on reducing some of the negative mental and physical outcomes of discrimination. Consequently, the results of this project are poised to unearth novel insights to inform current understanding of the effects of discrimination on individual well-being and societal social cohesion.

歧视是由于种族、阶级、性取向和性别等社会群体成员身份而造成的不公平的负面待遇。歧视是一种压力源，可能损害身心健康，损害工作和晋升机会。先前的研究发现，歧视会损害认知任务的表现，从而导致负面情绪，如焦虑，绝望和愤怒。本研究探讨新的方法来调节歧视的情绪反应。这些方法源于一项研究，该研究表明，从第三人称的角度思考消极的生活事件，而不是从个人的角度，沉浸式的观点会导致更好的情绪结果。这与众所周知的情绪调节模型补充了研究结果，这些模型表明，情绪内容的远程处理比沉浸式处理带来更积极的结果。耶鲁大学的Jennifer Richeson博士从距离与沉浸的角度研究了与基于群体的歧视经历竞争的多种后果。该项目还测试了一种新的策略，通过让参与者反思过去的歧视，揭示他们或他们的群体可能变得更强大或从过去的歧视经历中受益，来创造积极的情绪反应。 创造这种关于压力事件的救赎叙事已被发现可以提高幸福感，并可能在面临歧视时促进幸福感。拟议的工作整合了情感，情绪调节科学和社会心理学的研究，以考虑引起歧视不良影响的过程。该研究提出，与保持沉浸式观点相比，保持更远的观点可以增强情绪调节和情绪结果。实验研究了不同的情绪调节策略对情绪反应、生理唤醒和认知功能的影响，以及代表面临歧视的群体采取行动的动机。拟议的七个实验研究了经常面临歧视的不同社会群体（例如，种族/族裔少数群体、妇女），并进行了一项实验，探讨了创造一种救赎叙事对减少歧视造成的一些负面精神和身体后果的作用。因此，该项目的成果有望发掘新的见解，为目前对歧视对个人福祉和社会凝聚力的影响的理解提供信息。