Can Expressing Positivity Elicit Support for Negative Events? A Process Model and Review.

IF 7.7 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Personality and Social Psychology Review Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Epub Date: 2020-10-08 DOI:10.1177/1088868320961899

Rebecca M Walsh, Amanda L Forest

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Abstract

Garnering support for distressing experiences is highly important, yet notoriously challenging. We examine whether expressing positive thoughts and feelings when seeking support for negative events can help people elicit support, and we present a theoretical process model that explains why it might do so. The model includes three support-eliciting pathways through which expressing positivity could increase support: by strengthening providers' prorelational motives, increasing providers' positive mood, and enhancing providers' expected support effectiveness. It also includes a support-suppressing pathway through which expressing positivity could decrease support: by undermining providers' appraisals of support seekers' needs. After presenting the model and providing evidence for each indirect pathway, we review research regarding the direct pathway. We then consider various types of positivity, discuss possible moderators, and identify directions for future research. Our model highlights support seekers' underemphasized role in shaping support receipt and provides a novel perspective on positive expressivity's potential value in distress-related contexts.

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表达积极的态度能引出对消极事件的支持吗?过程模型与回顾。

在痛苦的经历中获得支持是非常重要的，但也是非常具有挑战性的。我们研究了在消极事件中寻求支持时表达积极的想法和感受是否能帮助人们获得支持，并提出了一个理论过程模型来解释为什么会这样做。该模型包括三种支持诱发途径，通过表达积极可以增强服务提供者的亲关系动机、增加服务提供者的积极情绪和提高服务提供者的期望支持有效性。它还包括一个支持抑制途径，通过表达积极可以减少支持:通过破坏提供者对寻求支持者需求的评估。在给出了模型并为每个间接途径提供了证据之后，我们回顾了关于直接途径的研究。然后，我们考虑各种类型的积极性，讨论可能的调节因素，并确定未来研究的方向。我们的模型强调了支持寻求者在形成支持接受方面被低估的作用，并为积极表达在与痛苦相关的环境中的潜在价值提供了一个新的视角。

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Personality and Social Psychology Review PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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19.00

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1.90%

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期刊介绍： Title: Personality and Social Psychology Review (PSPR) Journal Overview: Official journal of SPSP, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc. Premiere outlet for original theoretical papers and conceptual review articles in all areas of personality and social psychology Features stimulating conceptual pieces identifying new research directions and comprehensive review papers providing integrative frameworks for existing theory and research programs Topics Covered: Attitudes and Social Cognition: Examines the inner workings of the human mind in understanding, evaluating, and responding to the social environment Interpersonal and Group Processes: Explores patterns of interaction and interdependence characterizing everyday human functioning Intergroup Relations: Investigates determinants of prejudice, conflict, cooperation, and harmonious relationships between social groups Personality and Individual Differences: Focuses on causes, assessment, structures, and processes giving rise to human variation Biological and Cultural Influences: Studies the biological and cultural mediation of social psychological and personality processes