کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
951759 927250 2009 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Are repressors so special after all? Specificity of negative personal events as a function of anxiety and defensiveness
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علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب رفتاری
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Are repressors so special after all? Specificity of negative personal events as a function of anxiety and defensiveness
چکیده انگلیسی

Repressors have been characterized as individuals scoring high on defensiveness and low on self-reported anxiety [Weinberger, D. A., Schwartz, G. E., & Davidson, R. J. (1979). Low-anxious, high-anxious, and repressive coping styles: Psychometric patterns and behavioral and physiological responses to stress. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 88, 369–380]. Using regression analyses, we tested whether repressors report negative personal events at reduced levels of specificity, as suggested by affect regulation accounts. Participants (N = 82) wrote brief descriptions of personal memories and imagined future experiences as prompted by emotionally negative cues. Participants rated these events for emotional intensity and importance before completing measures of defensiveness, trait anxiety and depressive symptoms. Defensiveness was associated with reduced accessibility of negative self-relevant material but, contrary to Weinberger et al.’s typology, this effect was not moderated by self-reported anxiety. Defensiveness functioned as a suppressor variable such that its inclusion in regression analyses yielded significant negative relationships between anxiety or depressive symptoms and event specificity, even though zero-order correlations between these variables and specificity were non-significant. Results suggest that research based on Weinberger et al.’s classification may underestimate the role of defensiveness in repressive coping and that researchers should consider measuring defensiveness when investigating the relationship between psychopathology and self-relevant cognition.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Research in Personality - Volume 43, Issue 3, June 2009, Pages 386–391
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