Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, 603 E. Daniel St., Champaign, IL 61820, USA.
J Pers. 2012 Feb;80(1):1-32. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2011.00720.x.
We conducted 3 studies to test the idea that guilt is a key affective component of Conscientiousness and that it can account for the relation between Conscientiousness and negative affect. Study 1 used meta-analysis to show that Conscientiousness was associated with specific emotions and overall negative affect but was most strongly associated with guilt. Conscientiousness was negatively related to guilt experience but positively related to guilt proneness. Also, guilt experience mediated the relation between Conscientiousness and negative affect. Study 2 (N = 142) examined the relation between facets of Conscientiousness and guilt. We replicated results from Study 1 and showed that the relation between Conscientiousness and guilt was not due to overlap with Extraversion and Neuroticism. Study 3 (n = 176) examined the interplay between Conscientiousness and guilt on grades in a short-term longitudinal study. These studies showed that Conscientiousness is primarily related to guilt and highlighted the importance of examining the emotional substrate of Conscientiousness.
我们进行了 3 项研究,旨在验证内疚感是尽责性的关键情感组成部分这一观点,以及它是否可以解释尽责性与负面情绪之间的关系。研究 1 使用元分析表明,尽责性与特定情绪和整体负面情绪有关,但与内疚感的关系最为密切。尽责性与内疚体验呈负相关,与内疚倾向呈正相关。此外,内疚体验在尽责性与负面情绪之间起中介作用。研究 2(N=142)考察了尽责性的各个方面与内疚感之间的关系。我们复制了研究 1 的结果,并表明尽责性与内疚感之间的关系并非源于与外向性和神经质的重叠。研究 3(n=176)在一项短期纵向研究中考察了尽责性和内疚感对成绩的相互作用。这些研究表明,尽责性主要与内疚感有关,并强调了考察尽责性的情绪基础的重要性。