Mendolia Marilyn
a Department of Psychology , The University of Mississippi , University , MS 38677 , USA.
Anxiety Stress Coping. 2016;29(1):80-99. doi: 10.1080/10615806.2015.1015423. Epub 2015 Mar 11.
The malleability of emotion-focused coping was investigated by manipulating the situational context so that dispositional repressors, who typically utilize an avoidant strategy when confronted with a stressor, were led to use reappraisal and then were reexposed to the stressor.
A mixed design with one measured between-subjects factor (dispositional repression), two randomized between-subjects factors (performance feedback and coping strategy), and multimodal assessments across phases of the experiment was used.
During a face-perception task, participants (170 female and 120 male university students) received bogus performance feedback that was inconsistent with and thus threatening to self-concept. Participants then completed a writing activity encouraging them to perceive a face-perception task as either an invalid (reappraisal) or a valid (control) assessment tool. Afterward, participants continued with the task.
A repressive disposition was associated with a defense response (decreased perceived emotion to actors' expressions, increased skin conductance levels, and increased heart rates) during the face-perception task that participants perceived as threatening, but not during reexposure to the event after they had reappraised it as nonthreatening.
This research provides a more detailed understanding of the dynamic nature of emotion-focused coping by exploring how the disposition-situation interaction affects self-regulation of emotion.
通过操纵情境来研究情绪聚焦应对的可塑性，使得那些倾向于压抑的人（他们在面对压力源时通常采用回避策略）转而采用重新评价策略，然后再次暴露于压力源中。
采用混合设计，其中一个被试间测量因素（特质压抑），两个被试间随机因素（绩效反馈和应对策略），并在实验各阶段进行多模态评估。
在一项面部感知任务中，参与者（170名女大学生和120名男大学生）收到与自我概念不一致从而对其构成威胁的虚假绩效反馈。然后参与者完成一项写作活动，促使他们将面部感知任务视为无效（重新评价）或有效（对照）评估工具。之后，参与者继续该任务。
在参与者认为具有威胁性的面部感知任务中，压抑特质与防御反应相关（对演员表情的感知情绪降低、皮肤电导率水平升高和心率加快），但在他们将该事件重新评价为无威胁性后再次暴露于该事件时则不然。
本研究通过探索特质 - 情境交互作用如何影响情绪的自我调节，更详细地理解了情绪聚焦应对的动态本质。
