Boden Matthew Tyler, Berenbaum Howard
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 603 E. Daniel St., Champaign, Illinois, 61820.
Pers Individ Dif. 2012 Sep 1;53(4):426-430. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.04.010. Epub 2012 May 1.
In a college student sample, we explored the relations between individual differences in facets of emotional clarity and suspiciousness. Previous theory and research has treated emotional clarity as a one-dimensional construct. Boden and Berenbaum (2011) proposed that a second facet of emotional clarity, source awareness (a general understanding of the cause of their emotions), could be distinguished from type awareness (a general understanding of the type of emotions [anger, fear] experienced). We found that source and type awareness were incrementally, inversely associated with suspiciousness when statistically accounting for the extent to which emotions are attended to, and gender. Additionally, source awareness significantly predicted suspiciousness after accounting for anger, anxious arousal, and social anxiety, whereas type awareness did not. Findings are consistent with the hypothesis that, among individuals with low source and type awareness, suspicious beliefs are formed to make sense of and explain emotional arousal.
在一个大学生样本中，我们探讨了情绪清晰度和怀疑性各方面的个体差异之间的关系。先前的理论和研究将情绪清晰度视为一个一维结构。博登和贝伦鲍姆（2011年）提出，情绪清晰度的第二个方面，即来源意识（对自身情绪原因的总体理解），可以与类型意识（对所体验情绪类型[愤怒、恐惧]的总体理解）区分开来。我们发现，在统计上考虑到对情绪的关注程度和性别后，来源意识和类型意识与怀疑性呈递增的负相关。此外，在考虑了愤怒、焦虑唤醒和社交焦虑之后，来源意识显著预测了怀疑性，而类型意识则没有。研究结果与以下假设一致：在来源意识和类型意识较低的个体中，会形成怀疑信念以理解和解释情绪唤醒。
