心理科学 ›› 2023, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (5): 1106-1113.DOI: 10.16719/j.cnki.1671-6981.20230510

• 发展与教育 • 上一篇    下一篇

情绪调节策略使用习惯和选择偏好的分离效应:特质焦虑的调节作用 *

姚雨佳1, 徐舵1, 桑标**2,3   

  1. 1浙江工业大学心理学系,杭州,310023;
    2上海市教育科学研究院 教育部“ 教育大数据与教育决策” 实验室,上海,200032;
    3华东师范大学心理与认知科学学院,上海,200062
  • 出版日期:2023-09-20 发布日期:2023-11-07
  • 通讯作者: **桑标,E-mail:bsang@psy.ecnu.edu.cn
  • 基金资助:
    *本研究得到2021年度浙江省哲学社会科学规划课题(21NDQN209YB)和2021年度浙江省教育厅一般科研项目(Y202147464)的资助

The Separation Effect of Emotion Regulation Strategy Usage and Choice Preference: The Moderating Role of Trait Anxiety

Yao Yujia1, Xu Duo1, Sang Biao2,3   

  1. 1Department of Psychology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, 310023;
    2Lab for Educational Big Data and Policymaking, Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences, Shanghai, 200032;
    3School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062
  • Online:2023-09-20 Published:2023-11-07

摘要: 探索大学生五种具体情绪调节策略使用习惯和选择偏好的关系以及特质焦虑的作用机制。研究1采用问卷法和行为实验法分别考察五种策略的使用习惯和选择偏好及其分离效应;研究2考察特质焦虑对五种策略使用习惯和选择偏好间的分离效应的影响。结果发现:大学生只在表情宣泄使用习惯和选择偏好间呈显著负相关,不出现分离效应。特质焦虑不影响认知重评、表达抑制、接受、注意分散使用习惯和选择偏好间的分离效应,但会影响表情宣泄在两者间的分离效应。

关键词: 特质焦虑, 情绪调节策略使用习惯, 情绪调节策略选择偏好, GNAT

Abstract: Adopting questionnaires to measure college students' usage of reappraisal and suppression, acceptance, venting, distraction, and through the behavior experiment method to evaluate college students' strategy choice preference, this study aims to investigate the separation effect between usage and choice preference of the five emotion regulation strategies among college students, as well as the influence of trait anxiety on the separation effect.
In study 1, a series of questionnaires corresponding to these five emotional regulation strategies were used to investigate their usage, and the GNAT paradigm was used to measure their choice preferences. A total of seventy-five college students were randomly selected. After eliminating invalid participants whose accuracy were less than 75% in the GNAT task, a total of sixty-seven valid data were obtained. The analysis of the final valid data included the analysis of the characteristics of the five emotion regulation strategies in the usage and choice preference, as well as the relationship between them. In Study 2, participants completed the Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-trait) and were ranked from high to low based on their scores on the STAI-trait. The subjects who scored in the top 27% were identified as the high trait anxiety group and the bottom 27% were the low trait anxiety group. Focusing on the correlation between the usage and choice preference of five emotion regulation strategies, the influence of trait anxiety on the correlation between the two groups was emphatically investigated.
The results showed that: there were significant differences in the usage and choice preference of the five emotion regulation strategies among college students. Specifically, in the usage of strategies, the frequency of reappraisal and distraction was significantly higher than that of suppression, acceptance and venting, and there was no significant difference between reappraisal and distraction, nor between suppression, acceptance, and venting. In terms of strategy choice preference, the choice preference degree of suppression and acceptance was significantly superior to reappraisal and venting, and distraction was also significantly superior to reappraisal. There was no significant correlation between the usage and choice preference of reappraisal, suppression, acceptance, and distraction, showing a separation effect. However, there was a significant and negative correlation between the usage and choice preference of venting, showing no separation effect. Further analysis showed that the usage of venting had a significant regression coefficient on its choice preference. Trait anxiety did not affect the separation effect between usage and choice preference of reappraisal, suppression, acceptance, and distraction, but affected the separation effect between usage and choice preference of venting. To be specific, with the increase of trait anxiety level, the negative correlation between the usage and choice preference of venting decreases.
The present study revealed the usage and choice preference of reappraisal, suppression, acceptance, and distraction were separated, and trait anxiety did not affect their separation effect. However, trait anxiety affected the separation effect between usage and choice preference of venting, that is, students with high trait anxiety have a separation effect, while students with low trait anxiety have no separation effect.

Key words: trait anxiety, emotion regulation strategies usage, emotion regulation strategies choice preference, GNAT