ISSN : 1229-0653
This study examined the reliability of individual differences in emotional processing types formed by the combination of four emotional variables: Affect Intensity (AI), Emotional Attention (EA), Emotional Clarity (EC), and Ambivalence over Emotional Expressiveness (AE), and their impact on emotional experience and regulation. Four clusters were drawn from 186 college students (55% male), which is consistent with the result of former research. ‘Repressed’ group with low AI, EA, and EC, but high AE; ‘Calm and Clear’ group with low AI, EA, and AE, but high EC; ‘Hot & Clear’ group with high AI, EA, and EC, but low AE and ‘Conflicting’ group with high AI, EA, and AE was reaffirmed. ‘Hot & Clear’ group contrasted with ‘Repressed’ group, and ‘Calm and Clear’ contrasted with ‘Conflicting’ group in terms of patterns of variables combination, and psychological adjustment. After replicating the emotional processing types, emotional experience and regulation according to the types were explored. ‘Repressed’ group reported significantly lower level of positive emotion but little difference in experience of negative emotion. They also showed lower level of social support seeking in stressful situation compared with ‘Hot & Clear’ group. The implications of low level of positive emotion and social support seeking were discussed, in terms of their role in executive function recovery, and the validity of distinguishing repressor by the combination of the aforementioned emotional variables.
The purpose of this study was to explore the relation among sociotropy, sociocultural pressure to thinness, cognitive distortion and binge eating in adolescent girls and to investigate whether cognitive distortion mediate that sociotropy and sociocultural pressures affect binge eating. For this purpose, a total of 551 female adolescent composed of 206 middle school girls and 345 high school girls were involved in the study and responded to the self-reported questionnaire. Revised Personal Style Inventory, Tripartite Influence Scale-Revised, The Mizes Anorectic Cognition Scale and Bulimia Test Revised were used to measure sociotropy, sociocultural pressures, cognitive distortion and binge eating. Mediated effect of cognitive distortion among sociotropy, sociocultural pressures and binge eating was verified using structural equation modeling. The results were as follows. First. adolescent girls discriminated into binge eating group and normal group according to the standard of Bulimia test revised scores. The result of compared two groups was that binge eating group have a significantly higher body mass index(BMI), sociotropy, and sociocultural pressures, cognitive distortion than normal group. Second, sociotropy, sociocultural pressure and cognitive distortion were related significantly to binge eating. Third, The result of mediated analysis were sociotropy, sociocultural pressure and cognitive distortion had a significant effect on binge eating behavior and sociotropy, sociocultural pressure fully mediating model of the cognitive distortion fitted the data. In other words, sociotropy and sociocultural pressure indirectly affect cognitive distortion and binge eating behavior by through cognitive distortion. Finally, the clinical implications and several limitations of the present study were discussed.
This research examined the effects of extraversion on event-related potential(ERP) in response to both social and emotional stimuli. Experimental participants were assigned to either extraverts or introverts by the EPQ-R. Twelve pictures presenting four happy, four fear and four neutral faces were used as social stimuli and twelve building pictures were used as nonsocial control stimuli. The P300 component of the ERPs elicited by both human faces and buildings were analysed. Participants exhibited higher P300 amplitudes to human faces compared to buildings. Faces elicited significantly higher P300 amplitudes in extraverts than those in introverts, but buildings did not. There were no significant differences in the P300 amplitude for different facial expressions. This finding suggests that the enhanced motivational significance to social stimuli for extraverts is associated with the individual difference in underlying neural processes.
This research examined the effects of extraversion on event-related potential(ERP) in response to both social and emotional stimuli. Experimental participants were assigned to either extraverts or introverts by the EPQ-R. Twelve pictures presenting four happy, four fear and four neutral faces were used as social stimuli and twelve building pictures were used as nonsocial control stimuli. The P300 component of the ERPs elicited by both human faces and buildings were analysed. Participants exhibited higher P300 amplitudes to human faces compared to buildings. Faces elicited significantly higher P300 amplitudes in extraverts than those in introverts, but buildings did not. There were no significant differences in the P300 amplitude for different facial expressions. This finding suggests that the enhanced motivational significance to social stimuli for extraverts is associated with the individual difference in underlying neural processes.
The goal of this study was to examine the extent to which individuals recognize the facial expressions of increasing intensity and determine which areas of the face stimulates the recognition of emotion by empathy ability using an eye-tracker. The participants who were high empathy group (N=18) and low empathy group (N=18) viewed sequences of pictures of neutral faces (0% expression) that changed to happy, fearful, or angry faces of full-intensity (100% expression). Participants were asked to answer the facial expression as soon as they were able to recognize what it was and were measured eye movements for determining which areas of the face provoke the recognition of emotion. Results showed that the high empathy group recognized happy face more accurately and displayed significantly increased fixations and dwell time on the mouth area in happy face than the low empathy group. The findings of these results suggest that individual with higher empathy ability recognize positive facial expression more accurately and use facial features more efficiently when recognize positive emotional face.
This study investigated the general concept of public figure and how illegal acts of public figure influence punishment and forgiveness evaluation. In Experiment 1, participants defined public figure as a person with recognition and who can exert influence on other people. Also, participants perceived that public figure should have following characteristics: integrity, honesty and morality. In Experiment Ⅱ, participants were asked to measure what type of characteristics public figure currently have and what characteristics public figures are expected to have. The results indicated that there were a number of differences between current characteristics and the characteristics that they are expected to have, except recognizability and physical apparence. Significant differences were observed on integrity, morality and following the norm, and participants perceived that public figures should have less economic power, social status, and influence on the society. Experiment Ⅲ measured what types of occupations public figure would have. The results indicated that public officials, entertainers were considered as public figures. Experiment IV evaluated punishment and forgiveness on an illegal action committed by public figures. The result indicated that there was a significant difference on evaluation of punishment, criticism, self-reflection between a public figure and an ordinary person. The implications of the current study were discussed.