The Moderating Effect Of Affect Labeling On State Anxiety

Emotion regulation is mainly divided into two categories:conscious emotion regulation and unconscious emotion regulation. In past studies, there is a great emphasis on conscious emotion regulation, but on the regulation of unintentional emotion, there are a few of researches. Many researchers have begun to pay attention to the regulation of unconscious emotion, and affect labeling is the main way to adjust the unconscious emotion. In this study, in anxiety situations, college students can use emotional labeling to adjust their emotion.Affect labeling means the specific words can be used to describe the stimulus and things about the individual emotions. Affect labeling consists of three parts, first, stimulate can be expressed by language,, if there is no language, it is not affect labeling; Second things, the reason of stimulation may be the objective and subjective factors; Third, the content of language is associated with the performance of the emotions, as fear and sadness, or characteristics associated with emotion (emotion caused by scenes of devastation, can use "fearness", "threaten" and other words).The state anxiety is relatively short, a wave of emotional state, the reaction process mainly about the individual changes in his live situation and their own physical condition.Because anxiety come from the unconscious of the intuitive processing and autonomic arousal process, anxious individuals usually explain or repeatedly explain risk stimulated, so unconscious regulation will be benefited to people.The main research of this study is whether affect labeling has a moderating effect on state anxiety. Students complete a test through the limited time to answer 13 projects in the Raven's test that more difficult. Through comparing the differences between scores on the anxiety questionnaires, we find this method in laboratory condition can cause anxiety. In the experiment, two factor mixed design experiment:3 (labeling) x 2 (two test anxiety) mixed experimental design, it has 3 groups, each group have 30 students, respectively, comparing the affect labeling group, gender labeling and the viewing group of the two anxiety test.Compared with the affect labeling group, gender labeling and the viewing group, the results show that the main effect of the test anxiety is significant; the main effect of the labeling is not significant; The interaction between the labeling and test is significant, and affect labeling has obvious regulation on state anxiety.From the above research, we can draw the following conclusions:(1) Two test scores before and after the pre experiment have a significant difference, the failure test can effectively stimulate the indivadual state anxiety.(2) Affect labeling significantly plays a role in regulating the physiological level of individuals, thereby inhibiting negative emotions.(3) There is no gender difference about the affect labeling in the regulation of negative emotions.