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Repressive emotional discreteness after failure

B Egloff1, H W Krohne

  • 1Department of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany. egloff@mzdmza.zdv.uni-mainz.de

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
|June 1, 1996
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Repressers experience less intense negative emotions, like fear and sadness, after failure compared to non-repressers. This repressive emotional discreteness effect is specific to negative emotions, not positive ones.

Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology

Background:

  • Repressive coping is a defense mechanism influencing emotional experience.
  • Previous research suggested differences in emotional intensity between repressers and non-repressers post-failure, but this was not directly measured during the emotional event.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between coping dispositions and emotional responses immediately following a failure experience.
  • To determine if repressive emotional discreteness is observable during an actual emotional event.

Main Methods:

  • An experimental design was employed to measure emotions as they were actually felt.
  • Participants completed an anagram task, and their emotional responses after failure were assessed.

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Main Results:

  • Repressers reported similar levels of guilt (the dominant emotion) but significantly lower levels of fear, sadness, and hostility compared to non-repressers after failure.
  • No significant differences in positive emotions were found between repressers and non-repressers after success.
  • These findings support the concept of repressive emotional discreteness being specific to negative emotions.

Conclusions:

  • Repressive emotional discreteness is evident during emotional events, particularly concerning negative emotions.
  • The findings contribute to understanding the psychological mechanisms underlying repression and its impact on emotional regulation.