Erbas Yasemin, Ceulemans Eva, Lee Pe Madeline, Koval Peter, Kuppens Peter
a Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences , KU Leuven - University of Leuven , Leuven , Belgium.
Cogn Emot. 2014;28(7):1196-213. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2013.875890. Epub 2014 Jan 10.
Previous research has shown that individual differences in negative emotion differentiation may play a prominent role in well-being. Yet, many basic questions about negative emotion differentiation remain unanswered, including how it relates and overlaps with related and known dimensions of individual differences and what its possible underlying processes are. To answer these questions, in the current article we present three correlational studies that chart the nomological network of individual differences in negative emotion differentiation in terms of personality, difficulties in identifying and describing feelings, and several indicators of well-being, propose a novel paradigm to assess it in the lab, and explore relationships with a possible underlying mechanism in terms of the motivation to approach or avoid emotions. The results affirm consistent relations between negative emotion differentiation and indicators of adjustment like negative affect, self-esteem, neuroticism, depression and meta-knowledge about one's emotions, and show how it is related to the motivation to experience affective states.
先前的研究表明，消极情绪分化中的个体差异可能在幸福感中发挥显著作用。然而，关于消极情绪分化的许多基本问题仍未得到解答，包括它如何与个体差异的相关维度和已知维度相关联并重叠，以及其潜在过程可能是什么。为了回答这些问题，在本文中，我们呈现了三项相关研究，这些研究绘制了消极情绪分化中个体差异在人格、识别和描述情感的困难以及幸福感的几个指标方面的概念网络，提出了一种在实验室中评估它的新范式，并从接近或回避情绪的动机方面探索了与一种潜在机制的关系。结果证实了消极情绪分化与诸如消极情绪、自尊、神经质、抑郁以及关于自身情绪的元知识等适应指标之间的一致关系，并展示了它与体验情感状态的动机之间的关联。
