The purpose of this study is to examine effects of emotion-related attitudes by the medium of emotional expression conflict on emotional expression, and to investigate effects of communication types on emotional expression conflict by the medium of em...
The purpose of this study is to examine effects of emotion-related attitudes by the medium of emotional expression conflict on emotional expression, and to investigate effects of communication types on emotional expression conflict by the medium of emotion regulation strategy. For this, the author in this study established a theoretical model for analysis.
The subjects of this study were 432 males and females of at least 18 years of age. The collected data were put through multiple regression analysis, structural equation modeling, and path models analysis by using the SPSS 15.0 and the AMOS 7.0. The results of this study are as follows.
Emotional recognition and emotional expression conflict were higher in the males than females. Belief about emotional expression was higher as age and years of education grew. Fear of negative evaluation was higher as age grew. As for Marlowe-Crowned social desirability, the wish to look more socially desirable rose as age and educational years grew. Dysfunctional communication was higher as age groups and birth order grew.
Emotion-related attitudes (emotional recognition, belief about emotional expression, and fear of negative evaluation) had directly positive influences on emotional expression conflict, while emotional expression conflict had courses of negative influences on emotional expression.
Communication types had direct effects on negative emotional expression conflict as the levels of conciliation, criticism, and agreement grew, while having indirect effects on negative emotional expression conflict as the levels of conciliation and agreement grew by the medium of reinterpretation regulation strategy.
From the results of mediation effects of emotion regulation strategy on communication type and emotional expression conflict, emotion regulation strategies mediating communication type and emotional expression conflict included “recognition and understanding” and “reinterpretation” as expression conflict of negative emotion, and “avoidant distraction” and “active coping” as expression conflict of positive emotion. However, the mediation effects of such parameters were relatively lower, and communication type had mostly direct and indirect effects on emotional expression conflict.
In this study emotion-related attitudes had direct positive effects on emotional expression conflict; as emotional expression conflict grew, emotional expression level had negative effects on reduced emotional expression; and communication type had the most effects on emotional expression conflict, both directly and indirectly.
However, the results of this study should be understood within the limitations in this study, and further studies may be needed to complement the results.