Public Health School, Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Xianyang, 712046, China.
Department of Military Medical Psychology, Air Force Medical University, Xi'an, 710032, China.
BMC Psychol. 2024 Sep 27;12(1):501. doi: 10.1186/s40359-024-01993-2.
Expressive suppression is an abnormal emotion regulation strategy, and its relationship with rumination traits is unclear. In this study with 395 participants in China (33.9% female, Mean age = 21.22, SD = 2.11), we estimated the association between expressive suppression and rumination traits, using the Rumination Response Scale (RRS) and the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) respectively. Considering there may be complex correlations between different behavioral symptoms of expressive suppression ("Keeping emotions to myself", "Inhibiting positive emotion responses", "Controlling emotions by not expressing them", "Inhibiting negative emotion responses") and different subtypes of rumination traits, this study employed a symptom-based network analysis method to uncover the differential association between rumination traits and expressive suppression, and the key symptoms linking the two. The study found the S3 node (Controlling emotions by not expressing them) had significant positive correlations with symptom rumination, brooding, and reflective pondering. Among the network, the S3 node acts as a bridge between two variables. This suggests that interventions targeting the S3 symptom may improve rumination traits. The present study was a cross-sectional study with limitations in revealing the causal relationships between expression suppression and rumination traits. Future studies could employ longitudinal tracing methods to explore the relationship between them.
表达抑制是一种异常的情绪调节策略，但其与反刍特质的关系尚不清楚。本研究在中国招募了 395 名参与者（33.9%为女性，平均年龄为 21.22 岁，标准差为 2.11），分别使用反刍反应量表（RRS）和情绪调节问卷（ERQ）来估计表达抑制与反刍特质之间的关联。考虑到表达抑制的不同行为症状（“将情绪藏在心里”、“抑制积极情绪反应”、“通过不表达来控制情绪”、“抑制消极情绪反应”）和不同类型的反刍特质之间可能存在复杂的相关性，本研究采用基于症状的网络分析方法来揭示反刍特质与表达抑制之间的差异关联，以及连接两者的关键症状。研究发现，S3 节点（通过不表达来控制情绪）与症状反刍、沉思和反思性思考有显著的正相关。在网络中，S3 节点充当了两个变量之间的桥梁。这表明，针对 S3 症状的干预措施可能会改善反刍特质。本研究是一项横断面研究，其局限性在于无法揭示表达抑制和反刍特质之间的因果关系。未来的研究可以采用纵向追踪方法来探讨它们之间的关系。
