Newton T L, Contrada R J
Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, Oxford, Ohio.
Psychosom Med. 1994 Sep-Oct;56(5):457-62. doi: 10.1097/00006842-199409000-00011.
A number of conceptually similar emotion-focused coping styles have been related to physical well-being. We assessed the relationship between two of these constructs, alexithymia and repressive coping, on the basis of both psychometric and psychophysiological comparisons. Questionnaires were used to classify 86 healthy female subjects as low anxious, high anxious, or repressors. These subjects then completed a self-report measure of alexithymia and participated in a stressful laboratory task in which they delivered a self-disclosing speech. Emotional response patterning was assessed by comparing self-reported negative affect to heart rate responses elicited during the stressful speech task. Results indicated that the alexithymia scores of high anxious subjects were significantly greater than those of repressors. Consistent with the psychometric data, high alexithymics exhibited an emotional response pattern characteristic of high anxious subjects (self-reported negative affect greater than heart rate), whereas low alexithymics exhibited a response pattern characteristic of repressors (heart rate greater than self-reported negative affect). The results suggest that alexithymia and repressive coping are quite distinct, with repression being more similar to low alexithymia than to high alexithymia.
一些在概念上相似的以情绪为中心的应对方式与身体健康有关。我们基于心理测量和心理生理比较，评估了其中两种结构——述情障碍和压抑应对之间的关系。通过问卷调查，将86名健康女性受试者分为低焦虑组、高焦虑组或压抑组。这些受试者随后完成了一项述情障碍的自我报告测量，并参与了一项压力实验室任务，即进行一次自我表露的演讲。通过比较自我报告的负面情绪与压力演讲任务中引发的心率反应，来评估情绪反应模式。结果表明，高焦虑受试者的述情障碍得分显著高于压抑组受试者。与心理测量数据一致，高述情障碍者表现出高焦虑受试者特有的情绪反应模式（自我报告的负面情绪大于心率），而低述情障碍者表现出压抑组受试者特有的反应模式（心率大于自我报告的负面情绪）。结果表明，述情障碍和压抑应对截然不同，压抑与低述情障碍比与高述情障碍更为相似。
