Romantic relationships are important for social development and can impact an individual’s functioning both positively and negatively, especially when the relationship breaks up. Emotional and cognitive coping strategies including emotion approach coping, avoidance, and rumination and variable response to expressive writing intervention were examined in relation to post-dissolution distress. Undergraduate participants randomized into two groups completed measures of cognitive and emotional coping variables and global distress, with the experimental group completing a three-session expressive writing protocol. Writing samples were rated for processing mode, or the degree of vague general statements. Avoidance and rumination demonstrated significant cross-sectional associations with Time 1 distress controlling for demographics and characteristics of the former relationship. Gender moderated the relationship between rumination and distress. Using a matched sub-sample, the groups did not differ on emotional coping variables or distress. Results demonstrate the importance of examining emotional coping strategies in conjunction with relationship dissolution.

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关系解决中的情绪和认知应对

恋爱关系对于社会发展很重要，并且可以影响个人的积极和消极功能，尤其是当关系破裂时。情绪和认知应对策略，包括情绪方法应对，回避和反省以及对表达性写作干预的可变反应，与解散后困扰相关。本科生随机分为两组，分别完成了认知和情绪应对变量以及整体困扰的测量，实验组完成了三阶段的表达性写作协议。对写作样本的处理方式或模糊不清的一般陈述进行了评级。避免和反省表明，与人口统计特征和时间特征相关的时间1窘迫控制具有明显的横断面关联。性别缓解了沉思与痛苦之间的关系。使用匹配的子样本，各组在情绪应对变量或痛苦方面没有差异。结果证明了检查情感应对策略以及解除关系的重要性。