Université François-Rabelais de Tours-INSERM "Imagerie et Cerveau" UMR U 930 Tours, France ; Centre Universitaire de Pédopsychiatrie, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Tours Tours, France ; Centre d'Investigation Clinique, INSERM 1415 Tours, France.
Université François-Rabelais de Tours-INSERM "Imagerie et Cerveau" UMR U 930 Tours, France ; Clinique Psychiatrique Universitaire, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Tours Tours, France.
Front Psychol. 2014 Jun 11;5:571. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00571. eCollection 2014.
Emotion regulation strategies based on suppressing behavioral expressions of emotion have been considered maladaptive. However, this may not apply to suppressing the emotional experience (experiential suppression). The aim of this study was to define the effect of experiential suppression on subjective and physiological emotional responses.
Healthy adults (N = 101) were characterized in terms of the temperament, personality, and hedonic capacity using the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire, the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, the Fawcett-Clark Pleasure Scale, and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. Participants were shown positive, negative, and neutral pictures from the International Affective Picture System under two conditions, passive viewing, and experiential suppression. During both conditions, subjective ratings of the intensity and duration of emotional responses and physiological measures of skin conductance (SC) and cardiac inter-beat interval (IBI) to each picture were recorded.
Negative pictures elicited the most intense physiological and emotional responses regardless of experimental condition. Ratings of emotional intensity were not affected by condition. In contrast, experiential suppression, compared to passive viewing, was associated with decreased duration of the emotional response, reduced maximum SC amplitude and longer IBIs independent of age, picture valence, personality traits, hedonic capacity, and anxiety.
These findings demonstrate that experiential suppression may represent an adaptive emotion regulation mechanism associated with reduced arousal and cardiovascular activation.
基于抑制情绪行为表达的情绪调节策略被认为是适应不良的。然而，这可能不适用于抑制情绪体验（体验抑制）。本研究的目的是确定体验抑制对主观和生理情绪反应的影响。
使用三维人格问卷、艾森克人格问卷、法威克拉克快感量表和状态-特质焦虑量表，对 101 名健康成年人的气质、人格和享乐能力进行了特征描述。参与者在被动观看和体验抑制两种条件下观看了来自国际情感图片系统的正性、负性和中性图片。在两种条件下，都记录了对情绪反应的强度和持续时间的主观评价以及皮肤电导率 (SC) 和心动间期 (IBI) 的生理测量值。
无论实验条件如何，负性图片都会引起最强烈的生理和情绪反应。情绪强度的评分不受条件影响。相比之下，与被动观看相比，体验抑制与情绪反应持续时间缩短、最大 SC 幅度降低和 IBI 延长有关，而与年龄、图片效价、人格特质、享乐能力和焦虑无关。
这些发现表明，体验抑制可能代表一种与降低唤醒和心血管激活相关的适应性情绪调节机制。
