The Influence of Love Experience and Breaking-up Role to Cognitive and Emotional Difference

Abstract

Abstract: To explore the causes of the cognitive and emotional aspects after the end of the close relationship, this present research studied the feature of memory and presentation towards the events related love among the participants, who has different love experience and breaking-up roles. Method: the current study recruited 113 participants and divided into four groups according to different love experience and current situation(after breaking up and now single, after breaking up and now falling in love, never breaking up and now single, never breaking up and now falling in love). This paper used MDS to test the subjects' cognitive and emotional difference. Results: only the passivity subjects of after breaking up and now single mixed the cognitive and emotional aspects, and they presented lower cognitive and emotional difference ability. Conclusion: 1)the re-love after breaking up could repair confusion because of the breaking-up; 2)in this breaking up event, the passivity subjects would feel more confusion than the positive ones.

Key words: breaking up, traumatic memory, love experience, positivity/passivity, MDS, CED

摘要： 为探究失恋后个体所出现的认知和情绪状况的原因,本研究考察了不同感情经历个体以及失恋个体中主动失恋和被动失恋者对“恋爱事件”的记忆和陈述方式的特征。方法招募113名被试,根据感情经历和现状分为四组（失恋后单身45人, 失恋后恋爱23人, 从未失恋现恋爱11人, 从未失恋现单身34人）,失恋角色（主动36人、被动32人）,使用多维尺度分析技术测量个体的认知-情绪分辨能力。结果四组中只有失恋后单身组且被动失恋的个体记忆方式中混淆了恋爱的认知和情绪成分,表现出较低的认知-情绪分辨能力。结论（1）失恋后的再恋爱能够修复因失恋带来的混淆感;（2）失恋事件中的被动方往往比主动方体验到更多的混淆感。

关键词: 失恋, 创伤记忆, 感情经历, 主动/被动, 多维尺度分析, 认知-情绪分辨能力

CLC Number:

B849

Sun Shijin, Su Hong, Song Yaowu. The Influence of Love Experience and Breaking-up Role to Cognitive and Emotional Difference[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2017, 15(1): 121-127.

孙时进, 苏虹, 宋耀武. 感情经历、失恋角色对恋爱认知–情绪分辨能力的影响*[J]. 心理与行为研究, 2017, 15(1): 121-127.

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