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A Measure of Meta-mood Regarding the Self and Others : Towardan Understanding of the Regulatory Process for Negative Mood in Others
自己と他者に関するメタ・ムード : 不快感情の調整過程に焦点を当てて
鈴木, 有美
3567
Suzuki, Yumi
3568
木野, 和代
3569
Kino, Kazuyo
3570
速水, 敏彦
3571
Hayamizu, Toshihiko
3572
中谷, 素之
3573
Nakaya, Motoyuki
3574
メタ・ムード
不快感情の調整
共感性
meta-mood
negative mood regulation
empathy
1999-12-27
Affective experiences serve as a source of information for individuals, and processing and employing this information are an ability in order to adapt themselves to their social environment. This adaptive social skill is also recognized to be critical for the maintenance of psychological well-being. The concept of mood, which is focused in the present study, is conceptualized as the affective background that is continually present as waking consciousness or a stream of affect; that is, the nature of mood is everyday and ongoing affective experience. Such ongoing moods can be experienced on both a direct and a reflective level. The reflective experience of mood arises from the direct experience of mood, and it is presently termed meta-mood experience which is defined as the products of a mood regulatory process that monitors, evaluates, and at times changes mood. As to meta-mood experience regarding others, it can be hypothesized that the individuals with the adaptive social skill are able to employ this ability in the same manner as their own. However, the actions to regulate mood in others seem not to be so simple and then require other factors as well, specifically a trait of empathy. Empathy is regarded as a motivator for prosocial behavior. Consequently, the individuals who are more skilled at utilizing affective information and possess empathic trait are likely to take action to regulate negative mood in others altruistically provided that the regulatory process for others' negative moods is regarded as a kind of prosocial behavior. The regulation of mood tends to arise more in the case of negative mood experience than positive mood experience. The present study, therefore, especially dealt with the reflective experience of negative mood and was conducted to develop a scale of meta-experience of negative mood regarding both the self and others. It was also demonstrated to clarify the structures and relationships and to elucidate the regulatory process for negative mood in others and its relations to a trait of empathy. A set of questionnaires to measure meta-experience of negative mood about the self, about others, and empathy were administered to 239 female participants. The results clarified that both measurements of meta-mood were comprised of three fundamental factors dealing with regulation of negative mood, concern (corresponding to monitoring) for negative mood, and discomfort (corresponding to evaluation) against negative mood possession (self) or expression (others). The findings in this study also indicated that the regulatory process for negative mood in others required one's empathic concern and was influenced by meta-mood experience about the self. A number of issues for future research were also discussed.
国立情報学研究所で電子化したコンテンツを使用している。
departmental bulletin paper
名古屋大学教育学部
1999-12-27
名古屋大學教育學部紀要. 心理学
46
119
129
http://hdl.handle.net/2237/2945
03874796
jpn