Anticipated emotional and behavioral responses to ambiguous rejection by a significant other, friend, or acquaintance.

IF 1.9 4区 心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Journal of General Psychology Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Epub Date: 2020-07-25 DOI:10.1080/00221309.2020.1798864
Tucker L Jones, Mark A Barnett
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Abstract

Although there is an extensive literature on interpersonal rejection, individual studies that have examined adults' emotional and behavioral responses to rejection have tended to limit their scope to a specific category of rejector (e.g., acquaintances). As a result, prior research has failed to systematically investigate whether individuals' emotional and behavioral responses to perceived rejection differ as a function of the role of the potential rejector. In the present study, a total of 481 participants read two scenarios describing hypothetical situations in which rejection by a specific individual (i.e., significant other, friend, or acquaintance) was ambiguous. After each scenario, participants rated the extent to which they would be likely to anticipate (a) experiencing various negative emotions (e.g., upset) and (b) engaging in various behavioral responses (i.e., act friendly, retaliate, complain, avoid) to the potential rejector. Overall, the potential of being rejected by another person with whom one has a close and valued relationship (i.e., a significant other and, to a lesser degree, a friend) was associated with heightened negative emotion and a heightened likelihood of engaging in an active response, either prosocial (i.e., act friendly) or antisocial (i.e., retaliate or complain). In contrast, potential rejection by an acquaintance was associated with relatively little negative emotion and relatively little desire to engage the other (i.e., avoid). In sum, the participants' relationship with specific individuals was found to influence both the intensity of their anticipated negative emotional response to ambiguous rejection and the pattern of their anticipated behavioral response to the potential rejectors.

对重要的人、朋友或熟人的暧昧拒绝的预期情绪和行为反应。
尽管有大量关于人际拒绝的文献,但个别研究对成年人对拒绝的情绪和行为反应的研究往往将其范围限制在特定类别的拒绝者(例如,熟人)。因此,先前的研究未能系统地调查个体对感知到的拒绝的情绪和行为反应是否作为潜在拒绝者角色的函数而有所不同。在目前的研究中,共有481名参与者阅读了两种场景,描述了被特定个体(如重要的另一半、朋友或熟人)拒绝的模棱两可的假设情况。在每个场景之后,参与者对他们可能预期的程度进行评级(a)经历各种负面情绪(例如,沮丧)和(b)参与各种行为反应(例如,表现友好,报复,抱怨,回避)。总的来说,被另一个与你有密切和有价值关系的人(即重要的另一个人,在较小程度上是朋友)拒绝的可能性与负面情绪的增加和积极反应的增加有关,亲社会(即,表现友好)或反社会(即,报复或抱怨)。相比之下,熟人的潜在拒绝与相对较少的负面情绪和相对较少的与他人交往的愿望(即回避)有关。总之,研究发现,参与者与特定个体的关系既会影响他们对模糊拒绝的预期负面情绪反应强度,也会影响他们对潜在拒绝者的预期行为反应模式。
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Journal of General Psychology
Journal of General Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
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5.20
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期刊介绍: The Journal of General Psychology publishes human and animal research reflecting various methodological approaches in all areas of experimental psychology. It covers traditional topics such as physiological and comparative psychology, sensation, perception, learning, and motivation, as well as more diverse topics such as cognition, memory, language, aging, and substance abuse, or mathematical, statistical, methodological, and other theoretical investigations. The journal especially features studies that establish functional relationships, involve a series of integrated experiments, or contribute to the development of new theoretical insights or practical applications.
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