Xiangya Nursing School, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
School of Public Administration, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
BMC Psychiatry. 2022 May 5;22(1):320. doi: 10.1186/s12888-022-03945-9.
Gender differences have been found to be associated with individuals' pleasure. Cognitive flexibility and emotional expressivity might play an important role between gender differences and pleasure. This current study is to explore the mediating role of cognitive flexibility and emotional expressivity in the relationship between gender differences and pleasure.
In this cross-sectional study, a sample of 1107 full-time university students from five colleges in Tianjin, Chinese mainland was investigated by questionnaire. All participants completed the Temporal Experience of Pleasure Scale (TEPs), the Cognitive Flexibility Inventory (CFI), and the Berkeley Expressivity Questionnaire (BEQ).
The results of independent T-test suggested that females reported better emotional expressivity, anticipatory pleasure and consummatory pleasure than males, whereas males had better cognitive flexibility than females. Using bootstrapping approach revealed that the partially mediation effects of cognitive flexibility on gender differences in anticipatory and consummatory pleasure, and that of emotional expressivity on gender differences in anticipatory and consummatory pleasure. Results of this present study stated that cognitive flexibility and emotional expressivity play a partial mediating role in explaining gender differences in anticipatory and consummatory pleasure.
Females had higher anticipatory and consummatory pleasure because they tend to use emotional regulation strategy to express their emotion.
个体的愉悦感与性别差异有关。认知灵活性和情绪表达可能在性别差异与愉悦感之间发挥重要作用。本研究旨在探讨认知灵活性和情绪表达在性别差异与愉悦感关系中的中介作用。
采用横断面研究方法，对中国大陆天津市 5 所高校的 1107 名全日制大学生进行问卷调查。所有参与者均完成了时间体验愉悦量表（TEPs）、认知灵活性量表（CFI）和伯克利表达性问卷（BEQ）。
独立样本 T 检验结果表明，女性在情绪表达、预期愉悦和满足愉悦方面的得分均高于男性，而男性在认知灵活性方面的得分高于女性。采用 bootstrap 方法发现，认知灵活性对预期和满足愉悦的性别差异具有部分中介作用，情绪表达对预期和满足愉悦的性别差异具有部分中介作用。本研究结果表明，认知灵活性和情绪表达在解释预期和满足愉悦的性别差异方面发挥了部分中介作用。
女性具有更高的预期和满足愉悦感，因为她们倾向于使用情绪调节策略来表达自己的情绪。
