Emotional Response To The Power And Influence Of Factors

Emotion is a dynamic system. The dynamics of affective responding refers to the feature of directivity, stability, intensity, frequency, the time of onset, the time of duration, and rate of change etc. of emotion. The researches have found that most clinical emotion disorders have the feature of slow change on negative emotion. The temporal feature of affective responding has important significance on human adaptation. Rate of emotional change is an index of the dynamics of affective responding on time and one of aspect of emotion variability. Therefore, the researches on emotional variability have significant practical implication in the field of clinic, medicine, physical and psychological health and important theoretical implication on building more perfect emotion theory.Three studies explore the feature of emotional variability and its influential factors. Two studies use experimental method and the third study use daily experience method. Integrating the two methods is to increase the ecological validity. Emotional responding is evaluated with self-report and autonomic response. We use Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM), partial correlation analysts, covariance analysis, etc. statistic method to deal with the data.Results indicate: (1) During emotional stimulation, Neurotics (vs. stables) exhibit a rapid rate of negative emotion increase, and extraverts (vs. introverts) exhibit a slow rate of negative emotion increase. During negative emotional stimulation, female (vs. male) exhibit a rapid rate of negative emotion increase. Autonomic response is difference during positive and negative emotional stimulation. (2) There is affective-autonomic dissociation during emotion recovery. On self-report positive and negative emotion has recovered during 5 minutes, but autonomic response remained in negative experimental condition. Therefore, we think autonomic response recovered faster in positive experimental condition. During emotion recovery, Neurotics (vs. stables) manifest a slow rate of negative emotion decay, and extraverts (vs. introverts) manifest a rapid rate of negative emotion decay. Under negative experimental condition, female manifest faster rate of negative emotion decay than male. (3) Emotion regulation strategy is an influential factor on emotion recovery. Distraction is the most effective strategy for positive emotion, and cognitive reappraisal is the most effective strategy for negative emotion. The expectancy for negative emotion regulation is an influential factor on emotion recovery too. Among participants those higher on the expectancies scale who decreased faster in negative emotion. (4) In daily life, there isn't difference between the intensity change of positive and negative emotion. There isn't gender difference in the intensity change of positive and negative emotion. There is significant positive correlation between neurotic trait and the intensity change of negative emotion. Female exhibits slower rate of change than male in positive emotion. Neurotics exhibit slower rate of change than stables in positive emotion. Extraverts exhibit slower rate of change than introverts in negative emotion.