Li Zhongquan, Wu Xiaoyuan, Zhang Lisong, Zhang Ziyuan
School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
Institute of Disability Research, Nanjing Normal University of Special Education, Nanjing, China.
Front Psychol. 2017 Oct 12;8:1805. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01805. eCollection 2017.
Emotion plays an important role in moral judgment, and people always use emotion regulation strategies to modulate emotion, consciously or unconsciously. Previous studies had investigated only the relationship between emotion regulation strategies and moral judgment in the Harm domain, and revealed divergent results. Based on Moral Foundations Theory, the present study extended the investigation into moral judgment in all five moral domains and used a set of standardized moral vignettes. Two hundred and six college students filled in the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire and completed emotional ratings and moral judgment on moral vignettes from Moral Foundations Vignettes. Correlation analysis indicated that habitual cognitive reappraisal was negatively related to immorality rating in Harm, Fairness, and Loyalty domains. Regression analysis revealed that after controlling the effect of other variables, cognitive reappraisal negatively predicted immorality ratings in the Harm and Fairness domains. Further mediation analysis showed that emotional valence only partially explained the association between cognitive reappraisal and moral judgment in Harm area. Some other factors beyond emotional valence were suggested for future studies.
情绪在道德判断中起着重要作用，人们总是有意无意地使用情绪调节策略来调节情绪。以往的研究仅考察了情绪调节策略与伤害领域道德判断之间的关系，并得出了不同的结果。基于道德基础理论，本研究将调查扩展到所有五个道德领域的道德判断，并使用了一组标准化的道德 vignettes。206 名大学生填写了情绪调节问卷，并对来自道德基础 vignettes 的道德 vignettes 进行了情绪评分和道德判断。相关分析表明，习惯性认知重评与伤害、公平和忠诚领域的不道德评分呈负相关。回归分析显示，在控制其他变量的影响后，认知重评对伤害和公平领域的不道德评分有负向预测作用。进一步的中介分析表明，情绪效价仅部分解释了伤害领域中认知重评与道德判断之间的关联。建议未来的研究考虑情绪效价之外的其他因素。
