정서표현 양가성이 외로움에 미치는 영향

Abstract

Objectives The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating effects of cognitive emotion regulation and emotional expressiveness on the relationship between ambivalence over emotional expressiveness and loneliness.
 Methods A sample of 704 undergraduate students completed the survey including Ambivalence over Emotional Expressiveness Questionnaire (AEQ-K), Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire(CERO), The Emotional Expressiveness Questionnaire(EEQ), The Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale. The collected data were analyzed with SPSS 21.0 and AMOS 21.0.
 Results Emotional expression ambivalence showed a significant positive correlation with cognitive emotion regulation and loneliness, and a significant negative correlation with emotional expression. Cognitive emotion regulation showed a significant positive correlation with emotional expression, but sub-factors showed opposite correlations with emotional expression. On the other hand, there was no significant correlation between the cognitive emotion regulation and loneliness, but the sub-factors showed a significant correlation with loneliness. Emotional expressiveness showed a significant negative correlation with loneliness. As a result of structural equation model validation, Cognitive emotion regulation and emotional expressiveness mediated the relationship between ambivalence over emotional expressiveness and loneliness.
 Conclusions The results of this study suggests that the counselor's intervention in emotional expression is necessary, such as helping clients who use maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies to use adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies or to express emotions in counseling.