情绪社会分享与情绪趋同的关系

The Relation of Social Sharing of Emotion and Emotional Convergence

Anderson(2003)把人际交往双方情绪相似性随时间而增加的现象定义为情绪趋同。为了检验情绪社会分享在情绪趋同形成中的作用,本研究根据被试在7天情绪社会分享日记中的分享对象提名情况,匹配出情绪分享组,并比较了情绪分享组被试与随机组被试在情境故事测验材料上情绪反应的相似性。结果发现,情绪分享组的情绪相似性显著高于随机组,这表明:持续地交互进行情绪社会分享可增进情绪趋同,进而提高人际满意度和人际质量。

The emotions d individuals in interpersonal relationship will become increasingly similar over time. This process has been named as emotional convergence by Anderson in 2003. Our research focused on how the social sharing of emotion influenced the emotional convergence. Two groups＇ scores on situational stories were compared. One group was matched based on the name and number which were mentioned in the diary of social sharing of emotion of seven days. The other group was matched randomly. The result showed that the scores of the matched groups were significantly higher than those of the random group. Therefore, the continuous interaction between individuals in the social sharing of emotion can promote the emotional convergence and the satisfaction of interpersonal relationship.