Bailey Ghazaleh, Halamová Júlia, Vráblová Viktória
Institute of Applied Psychology, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Front Psychol. 2024 Apr 23;15:1363988. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1363988. eCollection 2024.
When it comes to the non-verbal communication of emotions, it is apparent that the human voice is one of the main ways of expressing emotion and is increasingly important in psychotherapeutic dialog. There is ample research focusing on the vocal expression of emotions. However, to date the analysis of the vocal quality of clients' in-sessional emotional experience remains largely unexplored. Moreover, there is generally a gap within the psychotherapy literature in the understanding of the vocal character of self-compassion, self-criticism, and protective anger.
In this study we investigated how clients vocally convey self-compassion, self-protection and self-criticism in Emotion Focused therapy sessions. For this purpose we investigated 12 commercially available Emotion Focused Therapy videos that employed a two chair or empty chair dialog. Praat software was used for the acoustic analysis of the most common features - pitch (known as fundamental frequency or F0) and intensity (voice amplitude, i.e., loudness).
Results showed that intensity was significantly higher for self-criticism and self-protection than for self-compassion. Regarding pitch the findings showed no significant differences between the three states.
More research analyzing acoustic features in a larger number of cases is required to obtain a deeper understanding of clients' vocal expression of self-compassion, self-protection and self-criticism in Emotion Focused Therapy.
在情感的非言语交流方面，很明显人类的声音是表达情感的主要方式之一，并且在心理治疗对话中愈发重要。有大量研究聚焦于情感的声音表达。然而，迄今为止，对于来访者在治疗过程中情感体验的声音特质分析仍 largely 未被探索。此外，在心理治疗文献中，对于自我同情、自我批评和保护性愤怒的声音特征的理解普遍存在差距。
在本研究中，我们调查了来访者在以情感为中心的治疗过程中如何通过声音传达自我同情、自我保护和自我批评。为此，我们调查了12个市售的以情感为中心的治疗视频，这些视频采用了双椅或空椅对话。Praat软件用于对最常见特征——音高（称为基频或F0）和强度（声音幅度，即响度）进行声学分析。
结果显示，自我批评和自我保护的强度显著高于自我同情。关于音高，研究结果表明三种状态之间没有显著差异。
需要进行更多研究，分析更多案例中的声学特征，以更深入地了解来访者在以情感为中心的治疗中自我同情、自我保护和自我批评的声音表达。
