2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Context and coping strategy for aversive emotions
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12610104
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
教育・社会系心理学
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| Research Institution | Yamagata University |
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Principal Investigator |
SATO Kaori Yamagata University, Faculty of Literature and Social Science, Associate Professor, 人文学部, 助教授 (50183827)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2000 – 2001
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| Keywords | coping strategy / aversive emotion / context / cultural adaptation |
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this study is to investigate how quality of a context of an induced aversive emotion influences responses related to coping of the emotion. In this study, we are interested in how quality of Japanese culture shapes coping styles to aversive emotions in addition to how quality of context influence emotional responses related to coping. Two psychological experiments were conducted for this purpose, all participants in these experiments were those who had Japanese citizenship with native language of Japanese. All of them were from the Yamagata University, Japan.
In the first experiment, importance of the situation, self-efficacy appraisal, expectation to the effectiveness of the chosen coping style besides his/her possible coping strategy were explored using Japanese university student subjects. The participants chose the externalizing strategy most in anger-induced state where they are hurt directly. The results indicates that the context where anger is induced influence more to determine coping strategies than the anxiety-induced context. In addition, they perceive themselves more competent when they perceived the strategies they chose more effective.
In the second experiment, one group of the subjects chose their possible coping strategy without thinking of the best and the worst strategy for a person. The other group chose their possible coping strategy after thinking of the best and the worst strategy. Both groups chose the externalizing strategy as their own coping strategy most in anger-induced state where they are hurt directly. In addition the latter subjects chose the internalizing strategy most after they thought of the best and worst strategies in interpersonally induced anxiety situation. The results discussed in the light of the nature of induction process of the stimulus emotion and character of behavioral patterns in some aversive emotion-elicited states among Japanese younger people.
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