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The present study investigated the existence of a mediating effect of emotion dysregulation in the relationship among anxiety sensitivity, behavioral inhibition, and worry. A total of 332 college students completed the Anxiety Sensitivity Index, Behavioral Inhibition Scale, Emotion Dysregulation Scale, and Worry Scale. The results indicate that the relationship between temperamental factors (anxiety sensitivity, behavioral inhibition) and worry was partially mediated by an emotional factor (emotion dysregulation). However, the path coefficients were different for male and female groups. On the one hand, the path from anxiety sensitivity to emotion dysregulation was not significant in the male group. On the other hand, the path from behavioral inhibition to emotion dysregulation was not significant in the female group. This study indicates that the relation between temperamental vulnerabilities and worry was mediated by emotion dysregulation; however, there was a gender difference in the pathway. Finally, implications, limitations, and some suggestions for future studies were discussed.
Mindfulness is paying attention to the present moment nonjudgmentally, so one who is mindful can aware entirely without feeling overwhelmed. If so, we can hypothesize a person with higher mindfulness responds to emotional stimuli differently. This study aims to investigate the effect of various facets of self-reported dispositional mindfulness on emotional response to emotional pictures. A total of 101 participants completed self-reported measurements of mindfulness and viewed positive, negative and neutral pictures from International Affective Picture System(IAPS), rating affective valence and arousal for each picture. Next, we examined whether emotional response is affected by dispositional mindfulness facets. The results show the following; a main effect for arousal and valence, no main effect for groups(mindfulness facets), interactions between valence and nonjudgmental facet, arousal and acting with awareness, describing. Participants with a higher nonjudgmental level view negative stimuli less negatively and positive stimuli less positively. Groups with higher acting with awareness and describe facets level experience lower arousal for positive stimuli. Negative affect increased and positive affect decreased after IAPS task; however, mindfulness facets did not moderate these effect. The finding suggest that emotional response is affected by dispositional mindfulness differently by each facet.
The purpose of this study is to identify common themes on the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) for Korean college students. The study included eighty-three male and female college students. Ten of the original TAT cards (Murray, 1943) were used: 1, 2, 3BM, 4, 6BM, 7GF, 8BM, 10, 11, and 14. In addition Korean TAT themes were compared with Japanese TAT themes (Gray, 1998), and American TAT themes (Stein, 1981). At the stage of classification of all TAT narratives, the level of agreement was determined using a Cohen's kappa statistic. The results of the kappa statistics show relatively high levels of agreement ranging from 0.6 to 1.0. The authors qualitatively analyzed all narratives for each of the ten cards using thematic analysis (Patton, 2002), and narratives were then analyzed using five themes: hero, need for achievement, dominant emotional tone, outcome of the story and the incidence of death. For thematic analysis, common TAT themes for the Korean students were identified for all ten of the cards that were administered. Significant differences in theme content were identified in two cards: 3BM, 7GF. These findings show the adaptability of the TAT as a psychological assessment tool for Korean students, and open the door for future studies. Also, the implications and limitations of this study are discussed, and directions for future study are suggested.
The lack of empathy is often described as one of the core characteristics of psychopaths. However, prior studies on cognitive empathy in psychopaths have led to mixed conclusions. This study distinguishes the two factors that constitute the construct of psychopathy; Factor 1 (e.g., emotional callousness, lack of guilt) and Factor 2 (e.g., irresponsible lifestyle, poor behavioral controls). The purpose of this study is to examine the differential relationships among these two factors, empathy and aggression. Self-report questionnaires and two online experiments (i.e., facial affect recognition task, emotional scenario task) were administered to 306 undergraduate students to collect data about psychopathy, cognitive and affective empathy, and aggression. Explanatory factor analysis confirmed the two-factor structure of psychopathy as expected. Correlation analysis revealed that both Factor 1 and Factor 2 had negative correlations with self-reported measures of cognitive, affective empathy, and only Factor 1 emerged as a significant predictor of both kinds of empathy. Aggression also showed a stronger positive correlation with Factor 1 than with Factor 2, regardless of subtypes (i.e., instrumental, reactive, relational, and overt aggression). In short, empathy and aggression were better predicted by Factor 1 than by Factor 2. Finally, the implications and limitations of this study and suggestions for future research, are discussed.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of a complex traumatic experience on anger expression and anger suppression in adolescents and to investigate the differential mediating effects of intrusive rumination and internalized shame. For this purpose, 313 participants were sampled from middle schools, high schools, youth support centers, dream local management centers, Wee centers, probation centers, and juvenile schools located in Daegu and Gyeongbuk provinces. SPSS PROCESS MACRO was used to verify the mediating effect. The instruments used included the trauma experience scale, state - trait anger expression scale, event - related rumination scale, and internalized shame scale. The main results were as follows. First, complex traumatic experiences had a statistically significant effect on intrusive rumination, internalized shame, anger expression, and anger suppression. Second, the effect of complex trauma on anger expression was mediated by intrusive rumination, but it was not mediated by internalized shame. Third, internalized shame mediated the effect of complex trauma experience on anger suppression, but intrusive rumination had no mediating effect. Based on these results, implications, limitations of this study and suggestions for future research were discussed.
