Naslov
Need for drama and strategies of self- and interpersonal negative emotions regulation

Autori
Ćubela Adorić, Vera ; Vulin, Ana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
8th international congress of psychologists of Slovenia

Mjesto i datum
Zreče, Slovenija, 19.09.2019. - 21.09.2019

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Need for drama, self-regulation strategies, interpersonal emotion management

Sažetak
A study with an age heterogeneous sample of 320 Croatian adults (60% females) examined the relationships of the need for drama (NFD) with different strategies of self-regulation and interpersonal regulation of negative emotions. It was hypothesised that the NFD, which represents a compound personality trait in which a person impulsively manipulates others from a position of perceived victimisation, will be related with a more frequent use of less adaptive self-regulation strategies (e.g., blaming others, catastrophizing) as well as with the more frequent use of interpersonal regulation strategies (e.g., modulation of other’s emotional response). The participants completed Croatian versions of the Need for Drama Scale (Frankowski et al., 2016), the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (Garnefski et al., 2001), and the Interpersonal Emotion Management Scale (Little et al., 2011). Concerning the self-regulation, the results indicated that the NFD correlates primarily with a more frequent use of catastrophizing, rumination, self-blaming and blaming of others, which is in line with the assumed maladaptiveness of the NFD. Further analyses indicated that these self- regulation strategies correlated most strongly with the persistent perceived victimization component of the NFD. Among the interpersonal regulation strategies, the NFD was associated only with the use of modulation of other's emotional response, and further analyses showed again that the relation is due primarily to the persistent perceived victimization component of the NFD. The absence of relationships with strategies aimed at modulating the emotion antecedents, along with a relatively weak correlation with the suppression of other's emotional response, is noteworthy. In sum, the observed pattern supports the notion that the NFD represents a rather self-focused maladaptive trait.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Psihologija

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