Department of Occupational, Economic, and Social Psychology, University of Vienna, Wien, Austria.
Department of Social Psychology, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands.
Cogn Emot. 2023 Aug-Sep;37(5):927-941. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2023.2221425. Epub 2023 Jun 9.
Do people share their feelings of guilt with others and, if so, what are the reasons for doing this or not doing this? Even though the social sharing of negative emotional experiences, such as regret, has been extensively studied, not much is known about whether people share feelings of guilt and why. We report three studies exploring these questions. In Study 1, we re-analysed data about sharing guilt experiences posted on a social website called "Yahoo Answers", and found that people share intrapersonal as well as interpersonal guilt experiences with others online. Study 2 found that the main motivations of sharing guilt (compared with the sharing of regret) were "venting", "clarification and meaning", and "gaining advice". Study 3 found that people were more likely to share experiences of interpersonal guilt and more likely to keep experiences of intrapersonal guilt to themselves. Together, these studies contribute to a further understanding of the social sharing of the emotion guilt.
人们会与他人分享自己的负罪感吗？如果会，他们这样做或不这样做的原因是什么？尽管人们对诸如后悔之类的负面情感体验的社会分享已经进行了广泛的研究，但对于人们是否会分享负罪感以及为什么会分享负罪感，我们知之甚少。我们报告了三项研究来探讨这些问题。在研究 1 中，我们重新分析了在一个名为“雅虎问答”的社交网站上发布的有关分享负罪感体验的相关数据，发现人们会在网上与他人分享人际间的和个人内的负罪感体验。研究 2 发现，与分享后悔相比，分享负罪感的主要动机是“宣泄”、“澄清和意义”以及“寻求建议”。研究 3 发现，人们更有可能分享人际间的负罪感体验，而更有可能将个人内的负罪感体验留给自己。这些研究共同增进了对情绪负罪感的社会分享的进一步理解。
