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Clusters by Affect Intensity, Emotional Attention, Emotional Clarity, and Ambivalence over Emotional Expression and Psychological Adjustment

Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology / Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, (P)1229-0653;
2008, v.22 no.4, pp.59-73
https://doi.org/10.21193/kjspp.2008.22.4.005



Abstract

This study examined individual differences in emotional processing patterns by multiple emotional variables:Affect intensity (AI), emotional attention (EA), emotional clarity (EC), and Ambivalence over Emotional Expressiveness (AE), and their characteristics in emotion regulation and psychological adjustment. The combination of the four emotional variables drawn from 363 college students (193 female) formed four clusters. The ‘Hot & Clear' group with high AI, EA, and EC, but low AE was the least avoidant in emotion regulation and adaptive. In comparison, the ‘Repressed' group with low AI, EA, and EC, but high AE was the most avoidant and maladaptive. The ‘Calm and Clear' group with low AI, EA, and AE, but high EC was relatively adaptive. However, the ‘Conflicting' group with high AI, EA, and AE was found to be avoidant and maladaptive. The result indicates that a crucial variable that predicts psychological adjustment seems to be the AE and EC. This also sheds light on the inconsistent findings of the previous studies on the functions of affect intensity and emotional attention. It is discussed that suppression and repression could be distinguished by the combination of the aforementioned emotional variables, and that the roles of low affect intensity combined with low emotional attention in emotional processing should be more highlighted.

keywords
Affect Intensity, Emotional attention, Emotional Clarity, Ambivalence over Emotional Expression, Cluster analysis, 정서강도, 정서주의, 정서명료성, 정서표현양가성, 군집분석

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