Mendolia Marilyn
Department of Psychology, The University of Mississippi, University 38677, USA.
Emotion. 2002 Sep;2(3):215-32. doi: 10.1037/1528-3542.2.3.215.
This research tests a model of repression (M. Mendolia, 1999; M. Mendolia, J. Moore, & A. Tesser, 1996) which specifies that the interaction of individual differences in emotional responsiveness and situational threats to self-concept contributes to one's tendency to regulate emotional responsiveness. This research demonstrates that (a) individuals regulate their autonomic activity, facial muscle activity, cognitive attention, and subjective experience during isolated and repeated exposures to self-threatening negative and positive emotional events and (b) repressive behavior can be predicted by the Index of Self-Regulation of Emotion, which complements and extends conventional categorical measures of dispositional repression. This model provides a more detailed understanding of basic mechanisms in emotion by identifying how individual differences in emotionality and particular social contexts contribute to self-regulation of emotion.
本研究检验了一种压抑模型（M. 门多利亚，1999年；M. 门多利亚、J. 穆尔和A. 泰瑟，1996年），该模型具体指出，情绪反应性方面的个体差异与对自我概念的情境威胁之间的相互作用，会导致个体调节情绪反应性的倾向。本研究表明：（a）个体在孤立且重复接触自我威胁性的负面和正面情绪事件时，会调节自身的自主活动、面部肌肉活动、认知注意力和主观体验；（b）情绪自我调节指数可以预测压抑行为，该指数补充并扩展了传统的特质压抑分类测量方法。通过确定情绪性方面的个体差异以及特定社会背景如何促成情绪的自我调节，该模型能让我们更详细地理解情绪的基本机制。
