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Dispositional and situational determinants of repression

M Mendolia1, J Moore, A Tesser

  • 1Institute of Behavioral Research, University of Georgia, USA. pymm@umsvm]

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
|April 1, 1996
PubMed
Summary

Repressors are highly sensitive to emotional events but distance themselves when self-evaluation is threatened. This model explains repressive behavior by considering dispositional sensitivity and situational factors.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Personality Psychology

Background:

  • Repression is a defense mechanism involving the unconscious exclusion of undesirable mental content.
  • Existing models of repression often focus on either personality traits or social behaviors, but not both.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose and test a two-factor model of repression incorporating both personality and social behavior.
  • To identify the motivational and contextual factors underlying repressive distancing from emotional events.

Main Methods:

  • Experiment 1: Assessed cognitive attention to emotional stimuli in individuals with repressive personality traits.
  • Experiments 2 and 3: Examined situational factors influencing psychological distancing from emotional events in repressors.

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Main Results:

  • Repressors exhibit hypersensitivity in cognitive attention to both positive and negative emotional events.
  • Repressors distance themselves from emotional events when self-evaluation is threatened and distraction is available.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed two-factor model integrates dispositional emotional sensitivity and situational moderators to explain repressive behavior.
  • This model offers a more comprehensive understanding of repression by linking internal motivations with external contextual triggers.