Objective: To examine the validity and reliability of the Chinese version of Ambivalence over Emotional Expression Questionnaire(AEQ) in college students. Methods: Totally 467 college students(sample 1) were recruited to complete the test version for item and exploratory factor analysis. Totally 377 colleges tudents(sample 2) were tested with formal version for further confirmatory factor analysis, internal consistency reliability, combination of the reliability, and composite reliability. The criterion validity was tested with the the Emotional Express Questionnaire(BEQ), the Toronto Alexithymia scale(TAS-20) and AEQ-G28 by choosing 150 students from sample 1. Totally 100 students from sample 2 were retested for test-retest reliability with two weeks interval. Results: Chinese version of AEQ contained 23 items, and the accumulating explanatory rate of the five factors was 54.53%. The results of confirmatory factor analysis showed that AEQ had a good construct validity(χ2/df=2.07, CFI=0.92, TLI=0.91, GFI=0.90, RMSEA=0.05). The AEQ scores were correlated with BEQ, and TAS-20(r=-0.32, 0.40, P<0.01). Cronbach's α coefficient and the test-retest reliability of AEQ was 0.91 and 0.80. Cronbach's α coefficient of five subscales(regret expressing, desire to be understood, emotional rumination, inhibit positive emotion expression and inhibit negative emotion expression) ranged 0.68-0.77. The reliability of the five subscales of AEQ ranged 0.44-0.80, and the combination of the five subscales reliability ranged 0.75-0.83. Conclusion: The AEQ is a reliable tool to assess the ambivalence over emotional expression in Chinese college students.
|
1 King LA, Emmons RA. Conflict over emotional expression:Psychological and physical correlates. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,1990, 58:864-877
2 Manuel T, Annalies G, Miriamlily VKN, et al. Keep it in or Let it out? Ambivalence over the Expression of Emotion as a Moderator of Depressiveness in Unemployed Subjects. Swiss Journal of Psychology, 2010, 69(3):141-146
3 Qian Lu, Jenny M, Jin You, et al. The link between ambivalence over emotion expression and depressive symptoms among Chinese breast cancer survivors. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 2015, 79:158-153
4 Natalie OR, Kate MR, Serena CM, et al.Beyond a "Woman's Problem":The Role of Relationship Processes in Female Genital Pain. Current Sexual Health Reports, 2014, 6(1):1-10
5 Laura SP, Francis JK, Isaac L, et al. Ambivalence over emotional expression in patients with gastrointestinal cancer and their caregivers Associations with patient pain and quality of life. The Journal of Pain, 2005, 117:340-348
6 Cornelia A, Gerd, Joachim VL, et al. Ambivalence over Emotional Expressiveness psychometric evaluation of the AEQG18 in a representative German. GMS Psycho Social Medicine, 2007, 4:1860-5214
7 King LA, Emmons RA. Psychological, physical and interpersonal correlates of emotional expressiveness, conflict, and control. European Journal of Personality, 1991, 5:131-150
8 Stephanie Q, Hugh LW. Alexithymia,ambivalence over emotional expression, and eating attitudes. Personality and Individual Differences, 2005, 38:1163-1173
9 King LA. Emotional expression ambivalence over emotional expression and marital satisfaction. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Psychology, 1993:601-607
10 Chen LH, Wu CH, Shouming Chen. Gratitude and Athletes' Life Satisfaction:A Intra-individual Analysis on the Moderation of Ambivalence over Emotional Expression. Soc Indic Res, 2015, 123:227-239
11 King LA. Ambivalence Over Emotional Expression and Reading Emotions in Situations and Faces. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1998, 74:753-762
12 Robert AE, Patricia MC. Emotional Conflict and Well-Being:Relation to Perceived Availability,Daily Utilization, and Observer Reports of Social Support. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1995, 68(5):947-959
13 Jennifer LB, Michelle CQ, Chelsie MY, et al. Canine comfort:Pet affinity buffers the negative impact of ambivalence over emotional expression on perceived social support. Personality and Individual Differences, 2014, 68:23-27
14 Jochen ML, Markus BH, Matthias Z, et al. Are alexithymia, ambivalence over emotional expression, and social insecurity overlapping constructs?. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 2008, 64:319-325
15 Jennifer LB, Michelle CQ, Chelsie MY, et al. General Needs Satisfaction as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Ambivalence Over Emotional Expression and Perceived Social Support. The Journal of Social Psychology, 2016, 156(1):115-121
16 Hasida B, Meirav Z. Aging Holocaust Survivors' WellBeing and Adjustment:Associations With Ambivalence Over Emotional Expression. Psychology and Aging, 2005, 20:710-713
17 李怡真, 林以正. 爱情关系中的情绪表达冲突的纵贯研究. 中华心理学刊, 2006, 48:53-67
18 梁亮, 吴明证. 婚姻关系中的情绪表达和情绪表达冲突. 应用心理学, 2009, 15(4):334-338
19 陈丽. 中小学教师情绪表达冲突及相关研究. 广州:广州大学硕士学位论文, 2012
20 赵鑫, 张冰人, 周玮, 等. 伯克利情绪表达量表中文版在中国大学生中的信、效度分析. 中国临床心理学杂志, 2015, 23(3):406-409
21 蚁金瑶, 姚树桥, 朱熊兆. TAS-20中文版的信度、效度分析. 中国心理卫生杂志, 2003, 17(11):763-767
22 Thomas RL, Clive JR, Jennifer Q, et al. A Mediational Model Relating Affect Intensity, Emotion Inhibition and Psychological Distress. Behavior Therapy, 2001, 32:519-536
23 Katz IM, Campbell JD. Ambivalence over emotional expression and well-being:Nomothetic and idiographictests of the stress-buffering hypothesis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1994, 67:513-523
24 Iryna VI, Jeanne CW. The role of emotional expression and ambivalence over emotional expression in romantic relationship. Baltic Journal of Psychology, 2010, 11(1, 2):62-72
|