Believe, express, and enjoy: utility beliefs about social emotion expression consistently predict satisfactory outcomes.

IF 1.7 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

Motivation and Emotion Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Epub Date: 2023-03-15 DOI:10.1007/s11031-023-10009-2

Chen-Wei Yu, Jen-Ho Chang

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Abstract

The present study investigates the association between people's beliefs about emotion and their overall satisfaction with a social interaction. We focus on three specific aspects to examine this association: (a) utility beliefs-a dimension of emotion beliefs; (b) emotion expression-an emotion channel; and (c) four social emotions-anger, other-embarrassment, gratitude, and other-pride. We examine whether people's utility beliefs about expressing a social emotion can predict their evaluation of a social interaction when they express (vs. suppress) their social emotion. Results (N = 209) consistently show that when people express their social emotion, their utility beliefs positively predict their satisfaction with an event. However, when people suppress their gratitude, their utility beliefs negatively predict their satisfaction, an effect not observed in the other three emotion events. These findings corroborate the claim that emotion beliefs impact people's emotional lives. Implications for research on emotion beliefs and motivated emotion regulation are discussed.

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相信、表达和享受：关于社会情感表达的效用信念始终可以预测令人满意的结果。

本研究调查了人们对情绪的信念与他们对社会互动的总体满意度之间的关系。我们关注三个具体方面来检验这种联系：（a）效用信念——情感信念的一个维度；（b）情绪表达是一种情绪渠道；以及（c）四种社会情绪——愤怒、其他尴尬、感激和其他骄傲。我们研究了当人们表达（与抑制）他们的社会情绪时，他们对表达社会情绪的效用信念是否可以预测他们对社会互动的评价。结果（N = 209）一致表明，当人们表达他们的社会情绪时，他们的效用信念积极预测他们对事件的满意度。然而，当人们抑制他们的感激之情时，他们的效用信念会负面预测他们的满意度，这在其他三种情绪事件中没有观察到。这些发现证实了情感信仰影响人们情感生活的说法。讨论了对情绪信念和动机情绪调节研究的启示。

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期刊介绍： Motivation and Emotion publishes articles on human motivational and emotional phenomena that make theoretical advances by linking empirical findings to underlying processes. Submissions should focus on key problems in motivation and emotion, and, if using non-human participants, should contribute to theories concerning human behavior. Articles should be explanatory rather than merely descriptive, providing the data necessary to understand the origins of motivation and emotion, to explicate why, how, and under what conditions motivational and emotional states change, and to document that these processes are important to human functioning.A range of methodological approaches are welcome, with methodological rigor as the key criterion. Manuscripts that rely exclusively on self-report data are appropriate, but published articles tend to be those that rely on objective measures (e.g., behavioral observations, psychophysiological responses, reaction times, brain activity, and performance or achievement indicators) either singly or combination with self-report data.The journal generally does not publish scale development and validation articles. However, it is open to articles that focus on the post-validation contribution that a new measure can make. Scale development and validation work therefore may be submitted if it is used as a necessary prerequisite to follow-up studies that demonstrate the importance of the new scale in making a theoretical advance.