Ortner Catherine Nicole Marie, Briner Esther Lydia, Marjanovic Zdravko
Department of Psychology, Thompson Rivers University , Kamloops , Canada.
Department of Psychology, Carleton University , Ottawa , Canada.
Eur J Psychol. 2017 Mar 3;13(1):60-74. doi: 10.5964/ejop.v13i1.1248. eCollection 2017 Mar.
Research in emotion regulation has begun to examine various predictors of emotion regulation choices, including individual differences and contextual variables. However, scant attention has been paid to the extent to which people's beliefs about the specific consequences of emotion regulation strategies for the components of an emotional response and long-term well-being predict their behavioral regulatory choices and, in turn, their subjective well-being. Participants completed measures to assess their beliefs about the consequences of functional and dysfunctional strategies, behavioral choices of emotion regulation strategies in negative scenarios, and subjective well-being. The model that fit the data indicated partial mediation whereby beliefs were associated with approximately 9% of the variance in choices. Emotion regulation choices were related to subjective well-being, with an additional direct effect between beliefs and well-being. This suggests beliefs play a role in people's regulatory choices. Future research should explore how beliefs interact with individual differences and contextual variables to better understand why people regulate their emotions in different ways and, ultimately, to help individuals make healthy emotion regulation choices.
情绪调节方面的研究已开始考察情绪调节选择的各种预测因素，包括个体差异和情境变量。然而，人们对情绪调节策略对情绪反应成分及长期幸福感的特定后果的信念在多大程度上预测其行为调节选择，进而预测其主观幸福感，却很少受到关注。参与者完成了多项测量，以评估他们对功能性和功能失调性策略后果的信念、在负面情境中情绪调节策略的行为选择以及主观幸福感。拟合数据的模型表明存在部分中介作用，即信念与选择中约9%的方差相关。情绪调节选择与主观幸福感相关，信念与幸福感之间还存在额外的直接效应。这表明信念在人们的调节选择中发挥作用。未来的研究应探讨信念如何与个体差异和情境变量相互作用，以更好地理解人们为何以不同方式调节情绪，并最终帮助个体做出健康的情绪调节选择。
