表達性壓抑對於情緒清晰度與自我控制能力的影響

Having Befuddled Feelings: The Effects of Suppression on Emotional Clarity and Self-Control

楊承恩(Cheng-En Yang)

指導教授 ： 林以正

國立臺灣大學/理學院/心理學研究所/碩士(2015年)

https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU.2015.02812

摘要

過去研究多顯示表達性壓抑是一個相對無效且不適性的情緒調節策略。本研究延伸此一觀點，試圖探討表達性壓抑的長期使用對於個人的情緒清晰度以及自我控制能力之影響。具體而言，本研究嘗試將情緒調節的歷程整合於自我調控理論的模型之中，以檢驗習慣性壓抑與自我控制能力間的關係。我們假設（1）習慣性地使用表達性壓抑應與自我控制能力存有負向的關聯，以及（2）此負向的關聯應受到較低的情緒清晰度所中介。研究結果發現在控制了社會期許的影響之後，習慣性地使用表達性壓抑的確負向地預測情緒清晰度，而情緒清晰度則進一步正向地預測自我控制能力，支持研究假設。最後，本研究針對習慣性使用表達性壓抑與自我控制能力間的偏弱的負向關係、研究限制、以及未來研究方向進行討論

關鍵字

情緒調節 ； 表達性壓抑 ； 情緒清晰度 ； 自我控制 ； 自我調節

並列摘要

Past research has generally indicated that expressive suppression is a rather ineffective and maladaptive emotion regulation strategy. The present study extends the negative outcomes associated with expressive suppression to the domain of self-control. Specifically, the present study incorporates the process of emotion regulation into the cybernetic model of self-regulation, hypothesizing that 1) the habitual use of expressive suppression is negatively associated with self-control, and 2) that this association should be mediated by lower emotional clarity. The results support our hypotheses. After controlling for social desirability, habitual use of expressive suppression was associated with poorer self-control through lower emotional clarity. Finally, issues concerning the weak association between expressive suppression and self-control, study limitations, and future research directions are discussed.

並列關鍵字

emotion regulation ； expressive suppression ； emotional clarity ； self-control ； self-regulation

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