TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Attitudes toward emotions
JO  - Journal of personality and social psychology
A1  - Harmon-Jones, Eddie
A1  - Harmon-Jones, Cindy
A1  - Amodio, David M.
A1  - Gable, Philip A.
SP  - 1332
EP  - 1350
VL  - 101
IS  - 6
N2  - The present work outlines a theory of attitudes toward emotions, provides a measure of attitudes toward emotions, and then tests several predictions concerning relationships between attitudes toward specific emotions and emotional situation selection, emotional traits, emotional reactivity, and emotion regulation. The present conceptualization of individual differences in attitudes toward emotions focuses on specific emotions and presents data indicating that 5 emotions (anger, sadness, joy, fear, and disgust) load on 5 separate attitude factors (Study 1). Attitudes toward emotions predicted emotional situation selection (Study 2). Moreover, attitudes toward approach emotions (e.g., anger, joy) correlated directly with the associated trait emotions, whereas attitudes toward withdrawal emotions (fear, disgust) correlated inversely with associated trait emotions (Study 3). Similar results occurred when attitudes toward emotions were used to predict state emotional reactivity (Study 4). Finally, attitudes toward emotions predicted specific forms of emotion regulation (Study 5). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved).<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-3514
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0024951
ID  - ref1
ER  -