Le Bonnie M, Impett Emily A
University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
University of Toronto Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2016 Mar;42(3):323-36. doi: 10.1177/0146167216629122.
How do parents feel when they regulate their emotional expressions in ways that are incongruent with their genuine feelings? In an experimental study, parents reported experiencing lower authenticity, emotional well-being, relationship quality, and responsiveness to their children's needs when they recalled caregiving experiences in which they suppressed negative emotions and amplified positive emotions, relative to a control condition. In a 10-day daily experience study, parents tended to use both regulation strategies simultaneously. In addition, assessing their unique effects indicated that positive emotion amplification, but not negative emotion suppression, had an indirect effect on parental outcomes via authenticity, with negative emotion suppression no longer being costly. This indirect effect was dampened when accounting for care difficulty. In both studies, effects were independent of a child's mood. The current results suggest that parents' attempts to suppress negative and amplify positive emotions during child care can detract from their well-being and high-quality parent-child bonds.
当父母以与真实感受不一致的方式调节自己的情绪表达时，他们会有怎样的感受？在一项实验研究中，与对照条件相比，当父母回忆起他们压抑负面情绪并放大正面情绪的育儿经历时，他们报告称自己体验到的真实感、情绪幸福感、关系质量以及对孩子需求的反应能力都较低。在一项为期10天的日常体验研究中，父母倾向于同时使用这两种调节策略。此外，评估它们的独特影响表明，积极情绪放大而非消极情绪抑制，通过真实感对父母的结果产生间接影响，消极情绪抑制不再代价高昂。在考虑照顾孩子的困难程度时，这种间接影响会减弱。在两项研究中，这些影响都与孩子的情绪无关。目前的结果表明，父母在照顾孩子期间试图压抑负面情绪并放大正面情绪，可能会损害他们的幸福感和高质量的亲子关系。
