权力,情绪适当性规范,以及对愤怒和悲伤的调节
Jordan A Tharp1, Felicia K Zerwas1, Iris B Mauss1
1Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley.
Emotion (Washington, D.C.)
|June 2, 2025
概括
社会力量影响人们如何管理情绪. 不平等的权力角色增加了情绪调节,如抑制和重新评估,并减少了接受,部分原因是适当性规范.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 社会心理学 社会心理学
- 情绪调节 情绪调节
背景情况:
- 社会权力,定义为对资源的控制,显著影响认知,情绪和行为.
- 情绪调节,即情绪经验的管理,是可能受到社会力量动态影响的关键领域.
研究的目的:
- 调查实验性操纵的权力角色如何影响愤怒和悲伤的调节.
- 探索情绪适当性规范在权力和情绪调节之间的关系中的调解作用.
主要方法:
- 在三项研究中 (N=207,N=447,N=291) 采用了受试者内部设计.
- 参与者想象自己在情景中扮演高,平等和低权力的角色,引发愤怒或悲伤.
- 评估了情绪调节策略 (抑制,接受,重新评估) 和情绪适当性规范.
主要成果:
- 在不平等的权力角色 (高和低) 中的参与者报告说,与平等的权力角色相比,压抑和重新评估增加,愤怒和悲伤的接受度降低.
- 发现情绪适当性规范部分调解了权力角色对情绪调节策略的影响.
- 研究结果在三个预先注册的研究中得到了一致的复制.
结论:
- 不平等的社会权力角色促进了更大的情绪调节 (压抑,重新评估) 和较少接受愤怒和悲伤等负面情绪.
- 担心在不同社会背景下情绪的适当性部分解释了为什么权力会影响情绪调节.
- 这项研究为通过社会力量塑造负面情绪管理的机制提供了新的见解.
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