The effect of emotion beliefs on psychological outcomes: the mediation role of emotion regulation

• Main Authors: Yu-Hsuan Lin, 林育璇
• Other Authors: Bi-Ling Shieh
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9gjxwa

碩士 === 高雄醫學大學 === 心理學系碩士班 === 103 === People differ in their beliefs and emotional processing about emotions. Although current findings highlight the importance of various emotional regulation strategies and their psychological adjustment, little is known about the effect of emotion beliefs and its relationship with emotional regulation strategies and psychological outcomes. The current study aimed to develop a psychometrically sound questionnaire to measure the beliefs about emotion and to investigate the associations between emotion beliefs and various aspects of emotion regulation and psychological outcomes in a non&;#8208;clinical sample of 152 participant. This questionnaire is consist of 12 subscales, 8 of them had moderate to high internal consistency reliability, construct validity and criterion-related validity and showed some promising psychometric properties. Furthermore, we explored the role of emotion beliefs through emotion processing and found out that positive emotion beliefs were related to life satisfaction, happiness and positive emotions via positive emotion regulation strategies as “cognitive reappraisal”; and negative emotion beliefs were related to aspects of emotion dysregulation including depression, anxiety and negative emotions, and were partially mediated by dysfunctional emotion regulation strategies. These results suggest people’s emotion beliefs may predispose them toward emotion regulation strategies that have important consequences for psychopathology and psychological adaption, and beliefs about emotion may be a useful target for treatment for people with emotion regulation difficulties, this could be achieved through the use of various therapeutic modalities.