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Emotional Adolescent Emotion Regulation Strategies

Posted on:2012-08-13Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y Y QiaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115330332993231Subject:Development and educational psychology
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Researches about emotion regulation are the front and hotspot of emotion research. Emotion regulation explores emotional cores, and it is more practical.Emotion regulation strategies are an important part of emotion regulation application field.In the domain of adolescents emotion regulation strategies, it is an index and can predict behaviors such as adjustment,achievement,competence, friendship and negative emotions,so it has the important practical meanings.Emotion and motivation in development psychology is a course of change, so it is important to know if and how emotion and emotion regulation developments happen. For adolescent is a special phrase, researches on emotion and emotion regulation of adolescent plays an important role. A lot of researches focus on the normal group and less focus on the special group. Emotionality group, as one of the special groups, are easy to arouse biologically. Emotion stability is very important to emotionality adolescent. So the thesis discusses the emotion regulation strategies of special groups in a developmental angle. It will not only help the emotionality adolescent choose suitable emotion regulation strategies but also be helpful to schools to improve their managing level and working of psychological health of adolescents.The thesis includes the following four researches:Scale organization of adolescence emotion regulation strategies; Research on the behavioral features of emotionality adolescence; the research of mediator and moderator effect between value and emotion regulation strategies development of emotionality adolescent.Main conclusions are these:1.Adolescent Emotion Regulation Strategies scale includes three dimentions。They are instrumental strategies,passive strategies and proactive strategies. Instrumental strategies includes reappail and coping.Passive strategies includes inhabitation,avoidance and distraction.Proactive strategies venting and indulging.The scale has 27 items. Instrumental strategies has 11 items.Passive strategies has 11 items.Proactive strategies has 5 items.2. To normal adolescent,proactive strategies does not exist significantly different in different phrases.However,instrumental strategies and passive strategies exist significantly different in different phrases. Instrumental strategies and passive strategies are used decreasingly with the higher phrase. Proactive strategies are used increasingly with the higher phrase.3. Emotionality adolescent take more use of passive strategies and less use of instrumental strategies and proactive strategies compared to the normal group.Cross design confirms that the difference caused by trait and emotionality group has their own stable style of emotion regulation.4.To emotionality adolescent,proactive strategies does not exist significantly different in different phrases.However,instrumental strategies and passive strategies exist significantly different in different phrases.Instrumental strategies and passive strategies are used increasingly with the higher phrase.The result also confirms that mature and development can lead the variance of emotion regulation strategies to emotionality group.5.Age is a key factor to influent directly the emotion regulation strategies of emotionality group. Age influents the emotion focus strategies indirectly by self- oriented. Age influents the emotion distraction strategies indirectly by self-oriented and high self-monitoring level. Other-orientation does not mediator the relation between age and emotion regulation strategies.6.Value is a key factor to influent the emotion regulation strategies of emotionality group. Achievemental value moderator the relation between age and emotion distraction strategy. Achievemental value does not moderator the relation between age and emotion focus strategy. Hedonic value moderator the relation between age and emotion distraction strategy and emotion focus strategy.In general,the thesis will go on from the developmental angle and take use of the combination of scale and behavioral features in order to study the emotion regulation strategies development of emotionality adolescence from puples,middle school students and college students.It has theorical and practical values and provide the elementary confirm of study on the emotionality adolescent emotion regulation strategies development.
Keywords/Search Tags:Emotionality, Emotion Regulation, Self-monitoring, Value, Mediator, Moderator
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