The Role of Negative Affect on Meaning Making in Various Kinds of Stressful Events

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  • ストレスフルな体験の意味づけにおける感情 ―出来事の種類をふまえて―
  • ストレスフル ナ タイケン ノ イミズケ ニ オケル カンジョウ : デキゴト ノ シュルイ オ フマエテ

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The current study investigated the influence of causal attribution and negative affect on two facets of rumination (intrusive and deliberate) and meaning making regarding stressful events. The participants (N=351) completed a questionnaire about four out of twelve hypothetical scenarios describing stressful events, which were manipulated according to the location of the cause. It assessed the causal attribution, negative affect, threat evaluation, intrusive and deliberate rumination, and meaning making about the hypothetical scenarios. The results revealed that remorse led to deliberate rumination, which is searching the value of the experience and the influence on one's own life. This promoted finding meaning in all events. Furthermore, dejection was positively correlated with threat evaluation, which led to intrusive rumination that was negative and uncontrollable. In addition, multiple group structural equation modeling proposed that the strength of associations among variables was significantly different depending on the kind of stressful event. Thus, this study suggested that negative affect had different effects on meaning making processes after people experienced a stressful event, and there are different features of the meaning making process depending on the kind of events.

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