Aversive Interpersonal Events, Psychopathology, and Health

厌恶的人际事件、精神病理学和健康

基本信息

批准号：
7476268
负责人：
MICHAEL Earl MCCULLOUGH
金额：
$ 22.55万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI CORAL GABLES
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2005
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2005-09-30 至 2010-05-31
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

Forgiveness has been linked to better psychological, emotional, and physiological functioning, whereas the failure to forgive has been linked to increased risk for psychopathology and impairments to physiological functioning. This application proposes a five-year program of research to investigate the potentially beneficial effects of forgiveness for reducing risk for psychopathology, improving psychological well-being, reducing alcohol-related problems, reducing anger and stress-related physiological arousal, and improving cognitive performance. To encourage forgiveness among recent victims of interpersonal transgressions, we will develop and evaluate a laboratory-based "benefit-finding" induction. Benefit-finding after adversity is very common and fosters resilience after traumatic life events. Thus, benefit-finding may help people forgive and thereby overcome the negative psychological, emotional, physiological, and cognitive effects of not forgiving. Also, the proposed project extends previous efforts to explore forgiveness as a change process using recent statistical advances. The proposed project has five specific aims: (1) to examine the link between benefit-finding and forgiveness experimentally; (2) to identify variables based on Equity Theory that moderate the effect of benefit-finding on forgiveness; (3) to better understand forgiveness as a change process using growth mixture modeling; (4) To determine whether forgiveness reduces risk for negative outcomes in the domains of psychopathology and psychological well-being; alcohol use; emotion, physiology; and cognitive performance; and (5) to determine whether forgiveness mediates the relationship between a benefit-finding induction and the outcomes listed above. In addition, the research will develop a technique?thinking and writing about possible personal benefits associated with a transgression one has suffered?that may have future clinical applications for reducing the burden of psychopathology and for reducing problems related to alcohol use, anger, stress-related physiological arousal, and cognitive performance.

宽恕与更好的心理、情感和生理功能有关，而未能宽恕则与精神病理学风险增加和生理功能受损有关。该申请提出了一项为期五年的研究计划，旨在调查宽恕对于降低精神病理学风险、改善心理健康、减少与酒精相关的问题、减少愤怒和压力相关的生理唤醒以及改善认知表现的潜在有益影响。为了鼓励近期人际违规行为受害者的宽恕，我们将开发和评估基于实验室的“效益发现”诱导。逆境后寻找利益是很常见的，并且可以在经历创伤性生活事件后培养恢复力。因此，寻找利益可以帮助人们宽恕，从而克服不宽恕带来的负面心理、情感、生理和认知影响。此外，拟议的项目还利用最新的统计进展，扩展了之前探索宽恕作为变革过程的努力。该项目有五个具体目标：（1）通过实验检验利益发现和宽恕之间的联系； (2) 根据公平理论确定调节利益寻找对宽恕影响的变量； (3) 使用增长混合模型更好地理解宽恕作为一个变化过程； (4) 确定宽恕是否可以降低精神病理学和心理健康领域出现负面结果的风险；饮酒；情绪、生理；和认知表现； (5) 确定宽恕是否调解了利益发现之间的关系归纳和上面列出的结果。此外，该研究将开发一种技术——思考并写下与一个人所遭受的越轨行为相关的可能的个人利益——这可能在未来的临床应用中减轻精神病理学的负担，并减少与酗酒、愤怒、压力有关的问题。相关的生理唤醒和认知表现。