ABSTRACT

Conceptualised as an adaptive positive emotion regulation strategy, savoring has been shown to mediate and moderate emotional reactions to positive life events. In contrast, in the present study, we sought to determine whether amplifying savoring might evidence an uplift propagation function paralleling the previously documented stress generation function of maladaptive emotion regulation strategies. Two large community-based longitudinal samples (Ns = 319 and 755) obtained self-reports of frequencies of everyday positive life events (uplifts) and both amplifying and dampening savoring. Across both samples, amplifying savoring prospectively predicted an increased frequency of uplifts over 3 months, whereas dampening savoring did not significantly predict changes in uplift frequency over time. Further, uplifts did not predict changes in either type of savoring over time. These findings suggest that: 1) amplifying savoring precipitates an increase in reports of uplifts, and that 2) experiencing positive events does not build the capacity to adaptively regulate positive emotions.

摘要

作为一种适应性积极情绪调节策略的概念，品味已被证明可以调解和缓和对积极生活事件的情绪反应。相比之下，在本研究中，我们试图确定放大品味是否可能证明与先前记录的适应不良情绪调节策略的压力产生功能平行的提升传播功能。两个基于社区的大型纵向样本（Ns = 319 和 755）获得了日常积极生活事件（提升）的频率以及放大和抑制品味的自我报告。在这两个样本中，放大品味前瞻性地预测了 3 个月内隆起频率的增加，而抑制品味并未显着预测隆起频率随时间的变化。此外，随着时间的推移，提升并不能预测任何一种口味的变化。这些发现表明：1) 放大品味会导致情绪上扬的报告增加，以及 2) 经历积极事件并不能建立适应性调节积极情绪的能力。