Context and coping strategy for aversive emotions

本研究旨在探讨情境质量对情绪应对的影响。在本研究中，我们感兴趣的是日本文化的质量如何塑造应对厌恶情绪的方式，以及如何影响与应对相关的情绪反应。为此，进行了两个心理实验，所有参与这些实验的人都是日本公民，母语是日语。实验一以日本大学生为被试，探讨了情境的重要性、自我效能感、对所选择的应对方式的有效性的期望以及应对策略的选择。被试在受到直接伤害的愤怒诱导状态下，最常选择外化策略。研究结果表明，愤怒诱发的情境比焦虑诱发的情境对应对策略的影响更大。此外，当他们认为自己选择的策略更有效时，他们认为自己更有能力。在第二个实验中，一组受试者选择了他们可能的应对策略，而没有考虑对一个人来说最好和最坏的策略。另一组在考虑了最好和最坏的策略后选择了他们可能的应对策略。两组受试者在受到直接伤害的愤怒诱发状态下，大多选择外化策略作为自己的应对策略。另外，在人际诱发焦虑情境中，后一种被试在考虑了最佳和最差策略后，最倾向于选择内化策略。根据刺激情绪的诱导过程的性质和日本年轻人在某些厌恶情绪诱发状态下的行为模式特征对结果进行了讨论。

The purpose of this study is to investigate how quality of a context of an induced aversive emotion influences responses related to coping of the emotion. In this study, we are interested in how quality of Japanese culture shapes coping styles to aversive emotions in addition to how quality of context influence emotional responses related to coping. Two psychological experiments were conducted for this purpose, all participants in these experiments were those who had Japanese citizenship with native language of Japanese. All of them were from the Yamagata University, Japan.In the first experiment, importance of the situation, self-efficacy appraisal, expectation to the effectiveness of the chosen coping style besides his/her possible coping strategy were explored using Japanese university student subjects. The participants chose the externalizing strategy most in anger-induced state where they are hurt directly. The results indicates that the context where anger is induced influence more to determine coping strategies than the anxiety-induced context. In addition, they perceive themselves more competent when they perceived the strategies they chose more effective.In the second experiment, one group of the subjects chose their possible coping strategy without thinking of the best and the worst strategy for a person. The other group chose their possible coping strategy after thinking of the best and the worst strategy. Both groups chose the externalizing strategy as their own coping strategy most in anger-induced state where they are hurt directly. In addition the latter subjects chose the internalizing strategy most after they thought of the best and worst strategies in interpersonally induced anxiety situation. The results discussed in the light of the nature of induction process of the stimulus emotion and character of behavioral patterns in some aversive emotion-elicited states among Japanese younger people.