Gibbons Jeffrey Alan, Vandevender Sevrin, Langhorne Krystal, Peterson Emily, Buchanan Aimee
The College of Natural and Behavioral Sciences, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA 23606, USA.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2024 Sep 11;14(9):806. doi: 10.3390/bs14090806.
The fading affect bias (FAB) occurs in autobiographical memory when unpleasant emotions fade faster than pleasant emotions and the phenomenon appears to be a form of emotion regulation. As emotion regulation is positively related to problem solving, the current study examined FAB in the context of problem solving. In-person and online studies asked participants to provide basic demographics, describe their problem-solving abilities, and rate various healthy and unhealthy variables, including emotional intelligence and positive problem-solving attitudes. Participants also completed an autobiographical event memory form for which they recalled and described two pleasant and two unpleasant problem-solving and non-problem-solving events and rated the initial and current affect and rehearsals for those events. We found a robust FAB effect that was larger for problem-solving events than for non-problem-solving events in Study 1 but not in Study 2. We also found that FAB was positively related to healthy variables, such as grit, and negatively related to unhealthy variables, such as depression. Moreover, many of these negative relations were inverted at high levels of positive problem-solving attitudes, and these complex interactions were partially mediated by talking rehearsals and thinking rehearsals.
当不愉快情绪比愉快情绪消退得更快时，消退影响偏差（FAB）会出现在自传体记忆中，这种现象似乎是一种情绪调节形式。由于情绪调节与问题解决呈正相关，因此本研究在问题解决的背景下考察了FAB。线下和线上研究要求参与者提供基本人口统计学信息，描述他们的问题解决能力，并对各种健康和不健康变量进行评分，包括情商和积极的问题解决态度。参与者还完成了一份自传体事件记忆表，他们回忆并描述了两件愉快和两件不愉快的问题解决及非问题解决事件，并对这些事件的初始和当前情绪以及复述情况进行评分。我们发现了一个显著的FAB效应，在研究1中，问题解决事件的FAB效应比非问题解决事件更大，但在研究2中并非如此。我们还发现，FAB与坚毅等健康变量呈正相关，与抑郁等不健康变量呈负相关。此外，在积极问题解决态度较高的水平上，许多这些负相关关系会发生反转，并且这些复杂的相互作用部分由言语复述和思维复述介导。
