他者の不幸を悲しむ情動, 喜ぶ情動 : 面接調査から把握されたその実態

Abstract

本研究では, 他者に悪い事象が生じるネガティブ状況に 限定し, その状況下で"非当事者"に, 理論上想定されている"共感的苦痛"と"シャ-デンフロイデ"の両情動が実際に経験されているのかどうか, また, 経験されている場合, どのように経験されているのか, その情動経験の詳細について把握することを主な目的とした｡

Recently, a lot of special attention has been paid to the emotions that people experience when they aren't directly related to some events in terms of their own interests. In our daily lives, we often experience some emotions as observers when some events happen to others and not to ourselves. How might you feel if you hear about your friends', your parents' or your rivals' good news? You might be delighted with it, or you might be envious of it. In this study, I focused on "triangle emotions" (the emotions experienced in the triangle of self, other, and event i.e. the emotions people feel when something happens to others, specifically the emotions felt by people when others experience a bad event). I asked 46 university students (average age=20.1, males=24, females=22) whether they've ever experienced the triangle emotions (empathic joy and the pleasure of other's unhappiness) when some bad event happened to someone they know, and if so, the details of their emotions through indirect relation to the event. I found that most students in fact experienced such triangle emotions towards their friends, and so on, in their daily lives.