The Effects of Emotional Regulation Strategies on Negative emotions and positive and negative thinking: Creativity as a Moderator

• Main Authors: LUO,PEI-JYUAN, 羅珮娟
• Other Authors: CHIU, FA-CHUNG
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2naf5v

碩士 === 國防大學政治作戰學院 === 心理碩士班 === 106 === The study aims to explore the effect from strategy onto emotion regulation between positive and negative thinking, as well as the outcome on correlation between strategy of emotion regulation and negative emotion. The independent variables are the training group which has been divided into three subgroups, such as cognitive reappraisal, distraction and status-control; while the dependent variables include negative emotional expression and positive/negative thinking after emotion regulation. In Experiment 1, ninety volunteers were invited to be our participants. There were six stages in the research process: The first stage is the pre-test to complete sadness management scale. The second stage is about the induction of sadness, that with autobiographic recall method, participants’ sadness will be induced. In the third stage, a guidance which is different from strategy of emotion regulation will implemented. The group of cognitive reappraisal will invite participants to give the event a new description or view in a non-emotional way. The group of distraction will invite participants to process the strategy of distraction. The group of control requires participants to once again directly recall the sadness. In the fourth stage, after the instruction is completed, the participants are required to instantly fill the sadness management scale. In the fifth stage, participants are asked to fill the scales for their process of thinking. In the sixth stage, participants are invited to fill in the unusual use of news paper and creativity tests, such as F. E. William’s Creativity Assessment Packet. (Creativity Tendency Scale) Again, in Experiment 2, ninety participants were invited. As on the research procedure, except that the “sadness management scale” in the Experiment 1 was modified to be tested by the “fear management scale”, and “induction of sadness” was modified to be letting participants watch ”fear-stimulating video” to inspire the emotional state of fear. Other than that, the remaining steps were as the same as the Experimental 1. The results showed that, participants in the group of cognitive reappraisal experienced significantly lower levels of sadness and fear than the group of distraction and group of control group. Moreover, participants’ positive thinking in the group of cognitive reappraisal was higher than that of the group of distraction and the group of control. The degree of fear experienced by participants in group of the distraction group was significantly lower than the one experienced by participants in group of control. As on the regulation effect of creativity, divergent thinking did have regulation effect on strategy of cognitive reappraisal; however, the tendency of creation did not have regulating effect. In addition, divergent thinking and creative tendency have no regulating effect on positive and negative thinking. The results of this study can be used as a reference for strategies of cognitive reappraisal and distraction, in order to effectively regulate the negative emotions generated by negative scenarios.