配對互動中情緒抑制和情緒重評之效應

The Effects of Emotion Suppression and Reappraisal on Dyadic Interaction

本研究探討配對互動中情緒抑制和情緒重評兩類情緒調節的效應。七十二位女性參與者在配對後隨機分派至情緒抑制、情緒重評或控制組中，其中一位參與者接受進行特定情緒調節的指導語。每對參與者在觀看一段激發負面情緒影片後對影片中的相關議題進行討論。結果發現在自陳量表上，以抑制方式調節情緒者較之於情緒重評者與控制組參與者表現出較低之自我評價與互動滿意度。在非語言行為測量上，情緒抑制組參與者的自我碰觸與身體動作的次數較控制組為少。在血壓測量反應上，情緒重評組中之非調節者之平均血壓與舒張壓均顯著低於情緒壓抑組中未接受情緒調節指示的參與者。而且，進行情緒調節者較非調節者的收縮壓提高較多。綜合而言，結果顯示情緒壓抑不但對以此進行情緒調節者有影響而且也影響著與其互動的另一位參與者。相反的，與進行情緒重評者配對的參與者則可能受惠於重評者對激發情緒事件所提供的其它觀點。本研究並討論人際互動中之情緒調節。

The effect of two types of emotion regulation, suppression and reappraisal, on dyadic interactions was investigated in the present study. Seventy-two female participants were paired and randomly assigned to either of the two emotion-regulation conditions or to a control condition. Participants in each dyad viewed an emotion-arousing film and then engaged in a conversation to discuss topics related to the target film. Results indicated, for the self-reported measures, regulators in the suppression condition reported a lower self-regard and a lower satisfaction with the conversation than both the regulators in the reappraisal and the participants in the control condition. For nonverbal behavioral measures, self-touching and bodily movements were significantly less frequent in the suppression condition than those in the control condition. For measures of blood pressure, the elevations of the mean and diastolic blood pressures for the non-regulators in the suppression condition were greater than for the non-regulators in the reappraisal condition. And, the elevation of the systolic blood pressure for the regulators was higher than those for the non-regulators. Taken together, these results suggest that suppressing emotional experience not only had negative impact on those who did the suppression, but also on their partners who interacted with them. In contrast, participants who presumably were experiencing negative emotions could benefit from partners who would offer alternative perspective on the emotion-inducing event. Implications for emotion regulation on interpersonal interactions are discussed.