Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563, USA.
J Pers. 2012 Apr;80(2):287-311. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2011.00732.x. Epub 2012 Feb 18.
In the context of efforts to regulate emotion during chronic stressors, both dispositional response tendencies (affect intensity, negative and positive expressivity) and stressor-related coping through emotional approach (processing and expressing emotions) are relevant to adjustment. In women with metastatic breast cancer (N = 103), contributions of self-reported emotional processing and expression related to cancer, as well as dispositional expressivity to adaptive outcomes across 3 months were examined. In the context of high dispositional expressivity, an increase in emotional expression predicted improvements in depressive symptoms and life satisfaction. Emotional processing at study entry predicted increased depressive symptoms and intrusive thoughts, and declining life satisfaction among highly expressive women. Increasing emotional processing predicted improved depressive symptoms in the context of high expressivity. Increases in emotional approach coping were associated with a more arduous cancer experience. Findings highlight the importance of the person-situation fit in linking emotion-related constructs to adjustment during unremitting stressors.
在努力调节慢性应激源期间的情绪的背景下，特质性反应倾向（情感强度、负性和正性表达）和通过情绪趋近（处理和表达情绪）进行的应激相关应对都与适应结果相关。在转移性乳腺癌女性中（N=103），考察了与癌症相关的自我报告的情绪处理和表达以及特质性表达对 3 个月内适应性结果的贡献。在高特质性表达的背景下，情绪表达的增加预测抑郁症状和生活满意度的改善。研究开始时的情绪处理预测高表达女性的抑郁症状和侵入性思维增加，以及生活满意度下降。在高表达的情况下，增加情绪处理可预测抑郁症状的改善。情绪趋近应对的增加与更艰难的癌症经历有关。研究结果强调了人与情境匹配在将情绪相关结构与持续应激源下的适应联系起来的重要性。
