Female Emotion Regulation Experience in Intimacy Relationship
| Autor: | Wei-Jie Lim, 林維杰 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 104 The main purpose of this study is to understand young female adult’s emotion regulation experiences, emotion events and the result of the emotion regulation in intimate relationship. Three young female adult who are currently in an intimate relationship were invited to participate in this study, conducted through in-depth interview and analyzed by application of qualitative research method. The result shows that positive reciprocal experience, contrast experience and emotion attachment experience are common emotion events that happen in intimate relationship. Young female adults tend to employ communication of emotions and thoughts, ventilation of emotions, self-isolation, cognitive reflection and distraction as their emotion regulation strategies. Three different outcome after use of emotion regulation strategies were found: experience of negative emotion maintains, experience of cognitive reappraisal and experience of successful emotion transformation. The discussions and recommendations upon completion of the understanding of emotion regulation in this study are discussed. Keywords: Young adult female, emotion regulation, intimacy relationship |
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