Effect Of Emotion Regulation On Friendship Jealousy Of Insecure Attachment Individuals

Friendship envy refers to a series of negative emotions,such as anger,sadness,anxiety,etc.,when an individual feel that his close relationship with his friends is threatened by a third party,which has a negative impact on the individual’s mental health and interpersonal relationships.Unsafe attached people are sensitive to changes in interpersonal relationships and alert to threat information.When threats from third parties appear in friendship relationships,they are more likely to have friendship jealousy.However,their internal information processing process is not adaptive,and their emotional adjustment ability is weak,so they are more likely to be immersed in negative emotions.However,at present,few studies have explored the role of emotion regulation strategies in regulating the friendship jealousy of insecure attachment groups.In view of this,on the basis of summarizing the existing relevant literature,this study focuses on the regulatory effects of cognitive reappraisal and expression inhibition strategies on friendship jealousy,and how they have different effects in attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance groups.Specifically,this study takes college students as the research object.Firstly,the situational paradigm design pre-experiment is used to test the validity of friendship jealousy induction paradigm.Then,two experiments were designed by using emotion regulation paradigm to explore the regulation effect of emotion regulation strategies on the friendship jealousy of insecure attachment individuals.Among them,Experiment 1explored the moderating effects of conscious cognitive reappraisal strategy and conscious cognitive expression inhibition strategy on friendship jealousy of insecure attachment individuals.Experiment 2 explores the moderating effects of unconscious cognitive reappraisal strategy and unconscious cognitive expression inhibition strategy on friendship jealousy of insecure attachment individuals.The results of Experiment 1 showed that:（1）conscious emotion regulation strategies had a significant impact on friendship jealousy of insecure attachment individuals;（2）there was an interaction between conscious emotion regulation strategies and insecure attachment types on friendship jealousy.The results of the second experiment show that:（1）unconscious emotion regulation strategies have a significant impact on the friendship jealousy of insecure attachment individuals;（2）There is interaction between unconscious emotion regulation strategies and unsafe attachment types.According to the above research results,the following conclusions are drawn:（1）for the complex emotion of friendship jealousy,both conscious and unconscious cognitive reappraisal strategies and expression inhibition strategies have a good regulatory effect.（2）Unconscious cognitive reappraisal strategy and expression inhibition strategy have different effects on friendship jealousy of college students with different attachment styles.Specifically,for attachment anxiety college students,unconscious cognitive reappraisal strategy has a significant impact on reducing their friendship jealousy,and its improvement effect is better than conscious expression inhibition strategy;For attachment avoidance college students,both unconscious cognitive reappraisal strategy and unconscious expression inhibition strategy can effectively regulate their jealousy.At the same time,compared with unconscious expression inhibition strategy,unconscious cognitive reappraisal strategy has a more significant regulatory effect on friendship jealousy.（3）Unconscious cognitive reappraisal strategy and expression inhibition strategy have different effects on friendship jealousy of college students with different attachment styles.Specifically,for attachment anxiety college students,unconscious cognitive reappraisal strategy has a significant impact on reducing their friendship jealousy,and its improvement effect is better than conscious expression inhibition strategy;For attachment avoidance college students,both unconscious cognitive reappraisal strategy and unconscious expression inhibition strategy can effectively regulate their jealousy.At the same time,compared with unconscious expression inhibition strategy,unconscious cognitive reappraisal strategy has a more significant regulatory effect on friendship jealousy.