共感者做什么:同情心和选择日常的人际情感调节策略
Eva J Geiger1, Luise Pruessner2, Sven Barnow2
1Department of Psychology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany; Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Journal of affective disorders
|November 3, 2024
概括
像精神化和同情关注这样的同情方面促进了以关系为导向的情绪调节. 然而,个人痛苦导致避免策略,影响社会功能.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 社会神经科学是一种社会神经科学.
- 情感科学是一种情感科学.
背景情况:
- 共感行为对于社会联系和积极互动至关重要.
- 了解同情如何影响情绪反应是解决心理病理学中社会缺陷的关键.
- 对同情心对他人的情绪反应调节的研究是有限的.
研究的目的:
- 调查同情心的不同方面如何影响人际情感调节策略.
- 检查同情成分 (思维,经验分享,同情关注,个人痛苦) 和情绪调节选择之间的关系.
- 阐明与同理心相关的社会功能背后的机制.
主要方法:
- 两项生态瞬间评估研究 (N=125,N=204) 分析了5537种社会互动.
- 共感被测量,剖析成思维,经验分享,同情关注和个人痛苦.
- 对人际情感调节策略的评估与同情成分有关.
主要成果:
- 共感者,特别是那些有同理心的关注者,使用了更多的以他人为中心的调节.
- 精神化,经验分享和同情的关注与以关系为导向的策略 (验证,安抚) 和较少的回避相关.
- 个人痛苦与增加的认知重新评估和避免,以及减少以关系为导向的策略有关.
结论:
- 同理心的不同方面显著地塑造了对他人的情绪的反应.
- 共感组件可以增强情绪反应能力和关系导向.
- 了解这些同理心调节动力学可以为有社会缺陷的情感障碍的治疗提供信息.
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