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Repression has been defined as the tendency to inhibit—consciously or unconsciously—the experience and expression of negative emotions or unpleasant cognitions in order to prevent one’s positive self-image from being threatened.
Seeing individuals as having agency and shifting focus to their responses to repression (1) offers a broader picture of the activities available to discontented people under repression and (2) provides a better account of the contentious politics occurring under repression. A number of strategies in response to repression are identified.
Jul 25, 2007 · Repression has been defined as the tendency to inhibit—consciously or unconsciously—the experience and expression of negative emotions or unpleasant cognitions in order to prevent one’s positive self-image from being threatened.
- Bert Garssen
- bgarssen@hdi.nl
- 2007
Drawing on these results, we offer three possible mechanisms by which suppression may disrupt social functioning. First, to the extent that suppression is successful, it will dissociate an individual’s internal emotional experience from the information available to that individual’s social partners.
- Self-Regulatory Strength
- Expressive Suppression
- Negative Affect
- Relationship Satisfaction
- Constructive Social Behavior
We preprocessed HR measures for artifacts using the Polar Precision Performance™ Software followed by a visual screening. We then used the HRV Analysis program (Niskanen et al. 2004) to apply a frequency-based technique of power spectral analysis to extract high-frequency components (0.15–0.4 Hz; HF-HRV) that primarily reflect cardiac vagal influen...
Participants rated the extent to which they had tried to (a) not show their emotions and (b) control their emotions by not showing them using a 6-point scale ranging from 1 (not at all true) to 6 (totally true).
Participants rated how they felt directly after the discussion on eight items using a 5-point scale ranging from 0 (not at all) to 4 (extremely). The items came from the German translation of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule—Extended (PANAS-X; Grühn et al. 2010; Watson and Clark 1994).
Relationship satisfaction was assessed using two items adapted from the Relationship Assessment Scale (Hendrick 1988; Sander and Böcker 1993). Participants rated the extent to which (a) their partner met their needs and (b) they felt satisfied with the relationship at that moment using a 5-point scale ranging from 1 (not at all) to 5 (completely).
We assessed two aspects of constructive social behavior: establishing equality and conflict resolution. We used observer ratings that represent a normative judgment, which is a valid criterion for socially constructive behavior. Furthermore, observer ratings are less biased by self-presentation and self-deception than self-reports. Reliability was ...
Jun 12, 2021 · To the extent that individuals inhibit their emotional expressions—especially the expression of negative emotions directed at the social system—they are unlikely to participate in collective action aimed at improving the status quo, even if they disapprove of the way things are.
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