Dispositional and Situational Determinants of Repression

This research project posits a model of repression that incorporates both repressive personality and repressive social behavior. The 1st parameter of the model specifies the motivation for repressors' distancing of themselves from emotional events. Experiment 1 demonstrates that repressors are...

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Published in:Journal of personality and social psychology 1996-04, Vol.70 (4), p.856-867
Main Authors: Mendolia, Marilyn, Moore, Janet, Tesser, Abraham
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition
Cognitive Processes
Defense Mechanisms
Determinants
Emotions
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Humans
Individuality
Male
Motivation
Personality
Personality Traits
Personality. Affectivity
Problem Solving
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Repression
Repression (Defense Mechanism)
Repression Sensitization
Repression, Psychology
Self Concept
Social Behavior
Social behaviour
Social Distance
Social Environment
Social psychology
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Summary:This research project posits a model of repression that incorporates both repressive personality and repressive social behavior. The 1st parameter of the model specifies the motivation for repressors' distancing of themselves from emotional events. Experiment 1 demonstrates that repressors are hypersensitive-in their cognitive attention-to both negative and positive emotional events. The 2nd parameter of the model specifies the conditions under which repressors distance themselves from emotional events. Experiments 2 and 3 demonstrate that repressors psychologically distance themselves when the situation threatens their self-evaluation and provides opportunity for them to attend to and process self-relevant and non-self-relevant information. This 2-factor model extends the current conceptualization of repression in that it identifies motivation (dispositional emotional sensitivity) and context (situational threats to self-evaluation and distraction availability) for repressors' distancing of themselves from negative and positive emotional events.
ISSN:0022-3514
1939-1315
DOI:10.1037/0022-3514.70.4.856