本研究旨在探討愛情關係中個人的情緒表達方式,以及情緒表達所引發的表達衝突經驗,並進一步瞭解情緒表達衝突對愛情關係的影響。本研究採質性研究之深度訪談法蒐集資料,共訪談五位目前有穩定交往對象並經歷過情緒表達衝突經驗之成人,訪談後針對所得資料進行分析,綜合歸納整理五位研究參與者訪談資料之異同,並呈現之。研究結果呈現如下: 一、 個人的情緒表達方式包括負向情緒表達方式、正向情緒表達方式以及關係互動下的情緒表達方式等三方面。 二、 情緒表達所引發的衝突經驗,主要分為引發情緒表達衝突的議題、情緒表達衝突的感受、情緒表達衝突當下的表達方式、情緒表達衝突的內在想法、因應情緒表達衝突的處理方式以及解決情緒表達衝突的要件等六方面來呈現。 三、 情緒表達衝突對愛情關係的影響,主要分為正面影響及負面影響兩部分。正面影響包括讓關係更靠近、穩定關係、有助關係的進展以及關係中自我成長等四方面;負面影響包括關係疏遠、破壞關係以及終止關係等三方面。 最後,研究者根據上述研究結果加以討論,並依據此研究結果提供若干建議以作為個人婚前感情議題、專業助人者以及未來研究之參考依據。
The purpose of this research is to explore the emotion expression of an individual in love relationship and its consequences of ambivalence over emotion expression, and then further examines its possible impact on the love relationship. The thesis adopts the deep interview of the qualitative research; it interviews five adult couples whose love relationship remains stable and underwent the experience of ambivalence over emotion expression. After analyzing the interviews of the five participants, the results of the thesis can be recapped as follows: First, the personal emotion expression includes the negative expression, positive expression, and the relational interaction. Second, the ambivalent experiences caused by the emotion expression can be divided as: 1) the issue of emotion expression causes, 2) the feeling of emotion expression, 3) the ambivalent expression of emotion expression, 4) the inner thought of the ambivalence over emotion expression, 5) the method of dealing with emotion expression, and 6) the solution of the ambivalence over emotion expression. Third, the positive side of the ambivalence over emotion expression is that the relationship will become 1) more intimate, 2) more stable, 3) more further developing, and 4) more self-growing. However, the negative side suggests that the relationship will become 1) estranged, 2) broken, and 3) ceased. Above all, the researcher attempts to provide some suggestions for those who involved in love relationships, the professional helpers, and the future researchers.