The Effect Of Embodied Regulation On Stress Anxiety

Anxiety has been one important factor for people’s physical health and mental health.Therefore,the psychology researchers has been focused on moderating anxiety.Gross proposed an emotion regulation theory that disembodied cognition can regulate emotion according to the time process of emotion which are antecedent-emotion regulation and response-emotion regulation.Based on this theory,some cognition strategies can moderate anxiety.But numerous of experience from daily life and empirical study has proved body can moderate emotion.So it is important to complete the emotion regulation theory with embodied cognition.Besides,there is lack of empirical study for the moderation effect of body on stress anxiety.Therefore,this study tries to explore the moderation effect of body on stress anxiety,and figures out this effect belong to whether antecedent-emotion regulation and response-emotion regulation.This study is aimed at exploring the effects of trait anxiety and embodied emotion regulation on the anxiety level under psychological stress.Therefore,it can reveal more effects of embodied emotion mechanism on the stress anxiety and prove the moderation of body on the emotion.Besides,it can not only enrich the emotion regulation theory and stress anxiety study,but also provide an empirical evidence for clinical study to better cope with stress and to relieve the adverse reaction from anxiety.This study took questionnaire and experimental study as methods.First of all,the Trait Anxiety Inventory(TAI)was distributed in some class room,library,and internet.After scoring the questionnaire,high trait anxiety and low trait anxiety was divided by ranking list.These subjects would be invited to the laboratory.The psychological stress source is mental arithmetic task.The between-subject variables are personality traits from scoring of Trait Anxiety Inventory and embodied emotion regulation from random allocation.The with-in subject variablrs are different period of stress.The dependent variables are galvanic skin response(SC/GSR),heart rate(HR BVP),skin temperature(Temp),and anxiety self-rating.The SPSS 21.0 system was used to analysis all of data.This study took Repeated Measures,ANOVA Measures,and Mann-Whitney U Test.The conclusions were as follows:(1)The self-rating anxiety scores,galvanic skin response,heart rate,skin temperature,are all significantly on three periods(stress period> recovery period>baseline period).Therefore,psychological stress was significant with mental arithmetic task.The subjects were induced to experience the stress anxiety.(2)Trait anxiety group had a significant difference among all time period of stress anxiety(high trait anxiety>low trait anxiety).These physiological and psychological index reveal that subjects with high trait anxiety would have more susceptibility to anxiety.And subjects with low anxiety would moderating their own emotion better.(3)right hand contraction moderated emotion better than left hand contraction between stress period and recovery period(right hand contraction<left hand contraction).And this moderation effect can both work well in high trait anxiety subjects and low trait anxiety subjects.It proved the embodied emotion hypothesis that approach-avoidance central nervous system from brain can moderate the positive emotion negative emotion.(4)the antecedent-focused emotion regulation of right hand contraction was significant with response-focused emotion regulation of right hand contraction(antecedent-focused emotion regulation> response-focused emotion regulation).It reveals that embodied emotion regulation rely on the response-focused emotion regulation mechanism to regulate emotion.This mechanism is consistent with the life experience,people would take a deep breath while he realized the anxiety emotion.In conclusion,this study reveals the different trait anxiety(high trait anxiety,low trait anxiety)subjects how to moderate stress anxiety of different time period by taking embodied emotion regulation strategy(right hand contraction,left hand contraction,antecedent-focused emotion regulation,response-focused emotion regulation).It not just only proves the moderation effect of embodied emotion regulation on stress anxiety,in order to provide a bias to explore the intervening stress anxiety,but also enriches the emotion regulation theory of Gross,such as considering body as a moderation effect to regulate emotion.