Ambivalence over emotional expression and well-being

Nomothetic and idiographic tests of the stress-buffering hypothesis

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ID6203459
AutoresIlana M Katz (University of British Columbia), Jennifer D Campbell
Ano1994
Volume67
Fascículo3
Páginas513-524
Data de publicação1994-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315
EditoraAmerican Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1037/0022-3514.67.3.513
OpenAlexW1993331711
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas21
Referências citadas21

Nomothetic and idiographic relations between ambivalence over emotional expression (AEQ; King & Emmons, 1990) and well-being were examined in a 4-month study with an interim 2-week diary component. Nomothetic and idiographic analyses both revealed that AEQ was related to psychological health but not to physical well-being. The nomothetic test of stress-buffering showed that AEQ was more predictive of depression among Ss who had experienced higher levels of positive life-event stress. In contrast, the idiographic test of stress-buffering revealed that Ss higher in AEQ exhibited less covariation between daily stress and negative affect over time. It is proposed that AEQ may reflect 2 types of emotional vulnerability - emotional reactivity and emotional perseveration - and the implications of this distinction for testing the stress-buffering hypothesis are discussed

Ambivalence · Developmental psychology · Emotional expression · Expression (computer science) · Nomothetic · Nomothetic and idiographic · Stress (linguistics) · Aging and Gerontology Research · Identity, Memory, and Therapy · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Social Psychology