Knox S, Svensson J, Waller D, Theorell T
National Institutes of Environmental Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden.
Behav Med. 1988 Summer;14(2):52-8. doi: 10.1080/08964289.1988.9935124.
A structured interview concerning emotional coping patterns was administered to 63 28-year-old men included in a psychophysiological study of blood pressure elevation. The interviews were tape recorded and subsequently evaluated by a rater not otherwise involved in the study. The interviews involved discussion of four emotions: anger, sorrow, anxiety, and joy. The results indicate that normotensives can express sorrow to significantly more people than hypertensives, and that their behavior in situations involving sorrow tends to be more instrumental than that of the group with labile pressure. Hypertensives also experienced significantly less joy than normotensives. In multiple regression analyses on physiological variables relevant for blood pressure elevation, the use of a somatic and unfocused way of describing sorrow was associated with significantly lower heart rate. The results show also that emotional coping explains a significant amount of the variance in three of the psychosocial functions involved in elevated blood pressure: ability to express anger at work, plus the social support variables of attachment and acquaintance.
对63名28岁男性进行了关于情绪应对模式的结构化访谈，这些男性参与了一项关于血压升高的心理生理学研究。访谈进行了录音，随后由未参与该研究的一名评分员进行评估。访谈涉及对四种情绪的讨论：愤怒、悲伤、焦虑和喜悦。结果表明，血压正常者比高血压患者能向更多人表达悲伤，而且他们在涉及悲伤的情境中的行为往往比血压不稳定组的行为更具功能性。高血压患者体验到的喜悦也明显少于血压正常者。在对与血压升高相关的生理变量进行的多元回归分析中，采用躯体化且不聚焦的方式描述悲伤与显著较低的心率相关。结果还表明，情绪应对在血压升高所涉及的三种社会心理功能的差异中占很大比例：在工作中表达愤怒的能力，以及依恋和相识这两个社会支持变量。
