愛情關係中的不安全感與情緒表達衝突： 自我確定性和關係自我確定性的中介效果

Insecurity and Ambivalence over Emotion Expression in Relationships： Mediators of Self-certainty and Self-certainty in Relationships

甘乃瑩(Nai-Yin Gan)

指導教授 ： 林以正

國立臺灣大學/理學院/心理學研究所/碩士(2004年)

https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU.2004.02069

摘要

一般而言，在愛情關係中隨著我們涉入越深，可能會有越容易會有失去對方的不安全感。不安全感程度越高，代表個體對於關係的維持失去了信心，害怕對方會離開這段關係，當個體經驗到情緒時，為了維持關係，就會在表達自己情緒前有更多的猶豫，情緒表達衝突程度高。而不安全感也是一種對自己或關係產生疑慮的感覺，進而影響到個體本身的情緒表達衝突。過去研究指出個體所知覺的不安全感對本身的情緒表達衝突具有顯著的影響。本研究主要目的進一歩探討不安全感高者之所以會表現出較多的情緒表達衝突，因為對自身和關係自我的不確定感所導致，本研究擬針對自我確定性與關係自我確定性對於上述關聯性的中介歷程作討論。
本研究以108名有固定約會對象的大學生為研究樣本，以紙筆問卷方式收集資料。相關分析的結果顯示，不安全感和情緒表達衝突呈現顯著正相關，符合本研究之假設。中介分析則顯示，自我確定性與關係自我確定性對於不安全感和情緒表達衝突都獨立地具有明顯的部分中介效果。本研究結果顯示在愛情關係中，高不安全感者可能經歷較多情緒表達衝突。而這主要是因為高不安全感者自我確定性、關係自我確定性低，對於關係的穩定越不具信心，因此傾向對另一半說出自己的情緒前有較高程度的情緒表達衝突。

關鍵字

情緒表達衝突 ； 關係自我確定性 ； 不安全感 ； 自我確定性

並列摘要

The more involved we are in a relationship, the more likely would we have the insecure feeling of losing the partner. As feelings of insecurity increase, one would develop doubts toward the partner’s leaving the relationship. Consequently, when experiencing emotions, in order to sustain the relationship, one would become ambivalent in expressing one’s emotions, leading to an increase in “ambivalence over emotional expression” (King & Emmons, 1990). Previous research has shown that feelings of insecurity had significant effect on one’s ambivalence over emotion. The present research went one step further to examine the relationship between insecurity and ambivalence over emotional expression was mediated by self-certainty and self-certainty in relationships.
One hundred and eight National Taiwan University students currently involved in a romantic relationship participated in the present study. Correlation analysis confirmed our hypothesis. There was a significant positive correlation between insecurity and ambivalence over emotional expression. Mediation analysis indicated that self-certainty and self-certainty in relationships partially mediated the relationship between insecurity and ambivalence over emotional expression.
Our study showed highly insecure people in relationships did experience high ambivalence over emotional expression. This was mainly because highly insecure people had lower self-certainty and self-certainty in relationships, less confidence in the stability of relationship. This confusion thus made them develop ambivalence over emotional expression when experiencing emotions in the highly valued relationships.

並列關鍵字

Self-certainty in relationships ； Self-certaint ； Ambivalence over emotional expression

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