| Sadness, avoidance behavior are important factors for individuals’social adaptability, the most commonly used strategies are cognitive reappraisal and expression suppression. Acceptance, as a emotional regulation strategy emerging in recent years, has played a positive role in the treatment of certain mental disease, its impact on sadness and avoidance behavior should not be neglected. Many scholars studied the cognitive reappraisal and expression suppression, which mainly focus on two aspects:how much effect about lowing sadness for cognitive reappraisal and expression suppression, respectively; which kind of effect do cognitive reappraisal and expression suppression to the avoidance behavior,.But they all have many insufficiencies, defective approaches, lead to inaccurate conclusions, or rarely considered the effect of the sadness and avoidance behavior for the important factor acceptance. In view of these, this paper take a empirical research approach to improve the above shortcomings, specially discuss the effects to sadness and avoidance behavior for acceptance, cognitive reappraisal and expression suppression.At present, there is little empirical research to explore how acceptance impact negative emotional experience and avoidance behavior. To compare acceptance.cognitive reappraisal, expression suppression on negative emotion experience and avoidance behavior directly.In previous studies of four admission policy article. Hays (1996) used a survey method. Eifert & Heffner (2003), Levitt, Brown, Orsillo & Barlow (2004), Campbell-Sills (2006), Hofinann (2009) of 3 studies are discussed individual anxiety, and are not set in the study design of control group, so the conclusion is inconsistent. Unlike the past survey, the present research is empirical study, using the survey method, experimental method, setting the control group in the experiment, and strictly control a variety of additional variables to ensure that the scientific research. At the same time this study was to investigate the sadness, the reason of investigating sadness is because of sadness as one of the four basic human emotions in life. If a man in a long-term grief, it will bring a greater negative impact on mental health, academic achievement.This research focuses on the relationship of acceptance, cognitive reappraisal, expression suppression and grief, avoidance behavior in undergraduates’population. Two studies are implemented in this research. Studyl examined and Amended the Gross emotion regulation strategies questionnaire acceptance and action questionnaire of Liao Chang Yin. Study2 compared the effects about acceptance, cognitive reappraisal, expression suppression of different emotion regulation strategies on the grief and avoidance behavior by using experimental method.The main conclusions were as followed:(1) The revision of Gross emotion regulation strategies questionnaire contains seven items and it is divided into cognitive reappraisal subscale and expression suppression subscale.The revision of acceptance and action Scale contains 14 items and it is divided into the willingness of acceptance subscale, acceptance consistency subscale, non-consistency of acceptance three subscales.(2) The revision of Gross emotion regulation strategies questionnaire and the revision of acceptance scale have good reliability and validity.(3) Acceptance and cognitive reappraisal can effectively reduce the sadness of the individual, but expression suppression can not. In terms of reducing the sadness, there is no significant difference between acceptance and cognitive reappraisal.(4) Acceptance,cognitive reappraisal and expression suppression can effectively reduce the avoidance behavior of the individual.Furthmore, in terms of reducing the avoidance behavior, there is no significant difference among acceptance, cognitive... |
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