Context and coping strategy for aversive emotions

本研究的目的是调查诱发厌恶情绪的情境质量如何影响与情绪应对相关的反应。在这项研究中，我们感兴趣的是日本文化的质量如何塑造对厌恶情绪的应对方式，以及背景质量如何影响与应对相关的情绪反应。为此，我们进行了两个心理实验，所有实验的参与者都是那些拥有日本国籍、以日语为母语的人。实验一以日本大学生为被试，探讨了情境、自我效能感、期望等因素对所选应对方式有效性的影响。在愤怒诱导状态下，被试选择外化策略的比例最高，直接受到伤害的程度最高。结果表明，愤怒诱导情境比焦虑诱导情境对应对策略的影响更大。此外，当他们意识到他们选择的策略更有效时，他们会觉得自己更有能力。在第二个实验中，一组受试者选择了可能的应对策略，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的和最坏的策略后，选择了他们可能的应对策略。两组都选择外化策略作为自己的应对策略，在愤怒诱导状态下，他们最容易受到直接伤害。此外，在人际诱发焦虑情境中，内化策略是被试在考虑最优策略和最差策略后选择最多的策略。根据刺激情绪诱导过程的本质和日本年轻人中一些厌恶情绪诱发状态的行为模式特征，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.