Interpersonal mechanisms for the maintenance of self-criticism: Expressive suppression, emotion expression, and self-concealment

Autor: Jason B. Luoma, Christina Chwyl
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Current Psychology. 41:4027-4040
ISSN: 1936-4733
1046-1310
DOI: 10.1007/s12144-020-00920-z
Popis: This paper focused on identifying patterns of emotional expression that may account for the relationship between self-criticism and social disconnection. In particular, the study examined whether self-criticism was related to three aspects of emotional openness and expressivity—increased expressive suppression, reduced expression of positive emotion, and increased self-concealment—and whether these variables, in turn, predicted lower levels of social belonging. Regressions and structural equation modeling were used to analyze self-report data from a community sample (N = 303). Results showed that self-criticism was associated with greater expressive suppression, more self-concealment, and reduced expression of positive emotion, even after controlling for depressive symptoms and the tendency to feel emotions intensely. Results were not supportive of our prediction that expressive suppression would mediate the relationship between self-criticism and lower levels of social belonging. However, a multiple mediator model showed that self-concealment and reduced expression of positive emotion, combined, partially mediated the relationship between self-criticism and social belonging. Overall, results were strongest that reduced expression of positive emotion mediates the relationship between self-criticism and lower feelings of belonging.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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