Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Cogn Emot. 2023 Nov-Dec;37(7):1281-1289. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2023.2258570. Epub 2023 Nov 22.
Reflecting on stressors from a detached perspective - a strategy known as - can facilitate emotional recovery. Researchers have theorised that distancing works by enabling reappraisals of negative events, yet few studies have investigated specifically how distancing impacts stressor appraisals. In this experiment, we investigated how participants' ( = 355) emotional experience and appraisals of an interpersonal conflict differed depending on whether they wrote event-reflections from a linguistically immersed (first-person) or distanced (second/third-person) perspective. Partly replicating previous findings, distanced reflection predicted increases in positive affect, but not reductions in negative affect, relative to immersed reflection. Linguistic distancing also predicted increases in motivational congruence appraisals (i.e. perceived advantageousness of the event), but did not influence other appraisal dimensions. We discuss how linguistic distancing may facilitate emotional recovery by illuminating the benefits of stressful experiences, enabling people to "see the good in the bad".
从超然的角度反思压力源——一种被称为（detachment）的策略——可以促进情绪恢复。研究人员推测，这种距离感通过重新评估负面事件起作用，但很少有研究专门探讨距离感如何影响压力源的评估。在这项实验中，我们研究了参与者（ = 355）的情绪体验和对人际冲突的评价，这取决于他们是从语言上沉浸（第一人称）还是超然（第二/第三人称）的角度来写事件反思。部分复制了先前的发现，与沉浸式反思相比，超然反思预测会增加积极情绪，而不会减少消极情绪。语言上的距离也预测了动机一致性评价的增加（即事件的有利性感知），但不影响其他评价维度。我们讨论了语言上的距离如何通过阐明压力体验的好处来促进情绪恢复，使人们能够“化坏事为好事”。
