Subjects: Psychology >> Personality Psychology submitted time 2022-04-14
Abstract：
Adopting questionnaires to measure the usage of reappraisal and suppression, acceptance, venting, distraction strategies, and through the behavior experiment method to evaluate the strategy choice preference, this study aims to investigate college students on the emotion regulation strategy usage and choice preference if there is a separation phenomenon and trait anxiety in the role of the relationship.
In study 1, a series of emotion regulation questionnaires and GNAT paradigm were used to investigate the usage and choice preference of five emotion regulation strategies and the relationship between them. Seventy-five college students were randomly selected, and 67 valid data were obtained for analysis after excluding invalid questionnaire data and GNAT task data whose accuracy rate was less than 75%. In study 2, participants were assigned to the Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-trait) and the top 27% and the bottom 27% of the participants were divided into the high trait anxiety group and the low trait anxiety group according to the score of the STAI-trait from high to low, and the influence of trait anxiety on the correlation between emotion regulation strategy usage and choice preference was 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 strategies was significantly higher than that of suppression, acceptance and venting strategies, and there was no significant difference between reappraisal and distraction strategies, nor between suppression, acceptance and venting strategies. In terms of strategy choice preference, the choice preference degree of suppression and acceptance strategy is significantly superior to reappraisal and venting strategy, and distraction strategy is also significantly superior to reappraisal strategy. There is no significant correlation between the usage and choice preference of reappraisal, suppression, acceptance, and distraction strategies. However, there was a significant negative correlation between the usage and choice preference of venting strategy, showing no separation phenomenon. Further analysis showed that the usage of venting strategy had a significant regression coefficient on its choice preference. Trait anxiety did not affect the relationship between usage and choice preference of reappraisal, suppression, acceptance, distraction strategy, but affected the relationship between usage and choice preference of venting strategy. Specifically, with the increase of trait anxiety level, the negative correlation between the usage and choice preference of venting strategy decreases, and when the trait anxiety level is high, the venting strategy choice preference may be positively correlated with the venting strategy usage.
The present study revealed the usage and choice preference of reappraisal, suppression, acceptance and distraction strategies were separated, and trait anxiety did not affect the separation effect. However, trait anxiety affected the correlation between venting strategy usage and choice preference.
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Subjects: Psychology >> Management Psychology Subjects: Psychology >> Applied Psychology submitted time 2021-08-23
Abstract： Studies show that significant differences are found in intertemporal choice between people in positive and negative emotions. However, the mechanism underlying this effect is underexplored. This study aimed to reveal the process mechanism of emotions on intertemporal decision making on the basis of the single dimension priority model by using a process-oriented method–a visual analog scale. We conducted three studies, where emotions were induced by video clip-induced technique to trigger target emotions (positive, neutral and negative). In study 1, the effects of emotions on intertemporal choice was investigated. This study used a 3 (emotion: positive, neutral, negative) ×2 (delay amount: 100, 1000 yuan) ×5 (delay time: 10, 30, 90, 180, 360 days) mixed design with emotion as a between-subjects variable. Participants were randomly assigned to positive, neutral, and negative conditions and were asked to complete the delay discounting task. In study 2, the process mechanism of emotions on intertemporal choice with a between-subjects design (emotion: positive, negative) was explored. Participants in each condition were asked to complete the delay discounting task and to compare the difference in the delay dimension with that on the outcome dimension. In studies 3a and 3b, 2 (emotion: positive, negative) ×2 (priming: time priming/money priming, no priming) between-subjects designs were used to manipulate the difference-comparing process and explore whether the effect of emotions on intertemporal choice disappeared. The results were observed as follows: (1) Emotions affected intertemporal choice significantly. Participants in the positive condition preferred the delay reward more than participants in the negative and neutral condition. (2) The difference-comparing process played a mediating role in the relationship between emotion and intertemporal decision making. Participants in positive emotion perceived that the difference in outcome dimension was greater than that of delay dimension and preferred the delay option. Participants in negative emotions perceived opposite and tended to choose the immediate choice. (3) The effect of emotions on intertemporal decision making disappeared when the difference-comparing process was manipulated. In summary, this study revealed the psychological mechanism of emotions on intertemporal decision making from the perspective of decision-making process and added important procedural evidence to the single dimension priority model. "
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Subjects: Psychology >> Management Psychology submitted time 2019-02-28
Abstract： Probability weighting bias refers to the deviation between the perceived likelihood and the objective likelihood of an event, which affects investment, insurance, doctor-patient communications, etc. The non-compensatory strategy in which people give more weight to “outcomes” than “probabilities”, and the emotional fluctuation induced by the reference point cause probability weighting bias; changing the description of “probabilities”, emotional experience of “outcomes”, reference point of “gains and losses”, and psychological distance from risk, can adjust such bias and optimize decision-making. Future studies need to further explore the issues, such as its application situations, mechanism correlations, and the identification of probability weighting bias. "
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