Berkeley Psychology Clinic.
Department of Psychology.
Emotion. 2020 Aug;20(5):818-829. doi: 10.1037/emo0000579. Epub 2019 Mar 14.
Emotion theorists have characterized emotions as involving coherent responding across various emotion response systems (e.g., covariation of subjective experience and physiology). Greater response system coherence has been theorized to promote well-being, yet very little research has tested this assumption. The current study examined whether individuals with greater coherence between physiology and subjective experience of emotion report greater well-being. We also examined factors that may predict the magnitude of coherence, such as emotion intensity, cognitive reappraisal, and expressive suppression. Participants ( = 63) completed self-report measures of well-being, expressive suppression, and cognitive reappraisal. They then watched a series of emotionally evocative film clips designed to elicit positive and negative emotion. During the films, participants continuously rated their emotional experience using a rating dial, and their autonomic physiological responses were recorded. Time-lagged cross-correlations were used to calculate within-participant coherence between intensity of emotional experience (ranging from neutral to very negative or very positive) and physiology (composite of cardiac interbeat interval, skin conductance, ear pulse transit time, finger pulse transit time and amplitude, systolic and diastolic blood pressure). Results indicated that individuals with greater coherence reported greater well-being. Coherence was highest during the most emotionally intense film and among individuals who reported lower expressive suppression. However, coherence was not associated with reappraisal. These findings provide support for the idea that greater emotion coherence promotes well-being and also shed light on factors that are associated with the magnitude of coherence. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
情绪理论家将情绪描述为涉及各种情绪反应系统的连贯反应（例如，主观体验和生理学的共变）。理论上，更大的反应系统连贯性会促进幸福感，但很少有研究检验过这一假设。本研究考察了情绪的生理和主观体验之间的连贯性更强的个体是否报告了更高的幸福感。我们还研究了可能预测连贯性大小的因素，例如情绪强度、认知重评和表达抑制。参与者（n=63）完成了幸福感、表达抑制和认知重评的自我报告测量。然后，他们观看了一系列情感唤起的电影片段，旨在引发积极和消极的情绪。在观看电影的过程中，参与者使用评分转盘连续评估他们的情绪体验，同时记录他们的自主生理反应。使用时滞交叉相关来计算个体内部情绪体验强度（从中性到非常消极或非常积极）和生理（心率间隔、皮肤电导、耳脉搏传递时间、手指脉搏传递时间和幅度、收缩压和舒张压的综合）之间的连贯性。结果表明，连贯性更高的个体报告了更高的幸福感。在最情绪化的电影中以及报告表达抑制较低的个体中，连贯性最高。然而，连贯性与再评价无关。这些发现为更大的情绪连贯性促进幸福感的观点提供了支持，也为与连贯性大小相关的因素提供了新的认识。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2020 APA，保留所有权利）。
